I had a major mishap at home. My plant shelf fell over after 3 years in the same position. Every single Ceramic plant pot I made since I joined makeict, were all broke into pieces. I have plants sitting in plastic sacks until I can put them in pots again. Is there any unclaimed pots on the drying racks that have been there longer than a month or two. If so can I have a few to turn into plant pots.
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Thatās awful!! Iām so sorry that happened! Are they in tiny pieces or do you think they can be kintsugiād back together?
If they can be pulled back together, let me know and I can help you 
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I just recently saw a short episode about something like the repairs you mention @Tyra. First, they glued the pieces back together like you would normally do. After that they put some type of epoxy or bonding type of clay over the break, making an obvious ridge. Before that layer started curing they placed different found objects into it, things such as broken bits of glass or small ceramic pieces, small stones, or anything that added to the design. I wish I could remember more about it, but it ended up making some really beautiful pots.
Michelle, that is really terrible what happened. Iām sorry you lost so many of the special pots you made. Maybe they are able to be salvaged and still used even if they look different after the addition of that process.
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Cool idea but way to many pots in way to many pieces. Iām talking 4 years of creating ceramic pots of all shapes, sizes and colors broken. To many pieces and colors to pick through. It would be like trying to pick through 40 of those 1000 piece jig saw puzzles dumped together and you figure it out without the cover to as a visual reference. To much, if it was one or two broken pots I would be down for this.
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I donāt remember seeing anything big enough in the stuff thatās hanging out that I need to push out for freebies or trash. 
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Can we have a letās help @michelle pot-making party?
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Thatās understandable @michelle. Itās heartbreaking to lose so much work.
If you ever do want to try this method I found a YouTube video showing the fix I was referring. I just think itās a really great way to do it. Even if a pot wasnāt broken it looks like an interesting way to decorate something. This appears to be a more modern way to do this process, or it may not even be considered to be true Kintsugi.
Repairing Ceramic Pots with Kintsugi - YouTube
Hopefully this can give some inspiration to a bad situation now or in the future.
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Thatās a good idea Malissa.
I have a ton of plastic pots that you could have! I know itās not the same as your beautiful pots but itās better than a plastic bag! Let me know if you want them I can drop them off at the studio!
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Iām into reinventing stuff and turning trash to treasure. Ill check the youtube thing out. Sounds cool AND interesting
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It really is cool Michelle. To me it really adds a lot of interest to a pot, vase, bowl, or whatever.
Iād say if you had an interest in trying that, you could salvage some of your pots and, to me, they would be worthy of selling them. They could be specifically sold as Kintsugi pots. At least it might be worth a try with a couple of them to see how theyāre received by buyers.
Heck, you might even use some of the broken bits of your pots to enhance some other pots with that method.
Edit mode! LOL I had an afterthought last night after I got off the computer. Iām not sure if it would seem dishonest to sell something as Kintsugi if it doesnāt follow exactly what Kintsugi really is. Perhaps a better way to sell something like what the YouTube video shows would be to say itās a modern take on the Kintsugi process, or a variation of that process.
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