I thought it might be neat to show some work in progress. All clay pottery starts out as a lump of mud. But there is some planning that goes from making that into finishing it. Depending on how decorative an object is it can have a lot of stages. Even some seemingly simple glazed work can actually take a little time if you are adding oxides and other elements in hope that when its fired and melts they will do interesting things. So here is a collection of before, during and after images.