I feed my dogs in them every day. Zoom was going to do something something about a specialty feed store and that was when I made up a dozen. I haven't thrown on the wheel in years, tho if I had one, that would be a different story. It takes a long time to learn, and you suck for a discouraging length of time, but if you keep at it, eventually it becomes second nature. It's the firing, the dust, the mess of supplies, the need for kilns, that makes it a pia. But it's apparently my medium of choice because I keep doing it. Nothing good comes easy is what you have to remember when you start out. You have to have a lot of passion for doing this. It isn't for the easy going. And it is beyond clutter for tools. I say this because I have to work hard to keep any kind of sense to my work area and try hard to stay within it and not let it overwhelm my home.
A police officer was searching my car when I first moved here because of my thinness and location they just assumed I was a crack head. I was asked if there was anything sharp in my car...uh..needle tools, broken pottery in the trunk, I have no idea..my son got one of my needle tools stuck in the back of his heel that had fallen out of my toolbox once when I was coming home from the guild. He has never let me forget it. I told the officer sorry, but probably and I have no idea where. Needle tool is a steel needle in a metal base like a pencil. I am forever losing them or breaking them. It really makes me miss light easy clean mediums like watercolor...ahhhhhh paper. Nice clean un dust ridden paper. THen there is the fact that anything can go wrong at any point. Not so much for me now, but the learning curve is vicious, just don't count on anything until the final firing. ANd people ask you how come that stuff cost so much. Insert rolled eyes. The saying at the guild is it takes 7 years plus one day of doing it 8 hours each to become a potter.