There are some of us who are to put it mildly, obsessed with making pottery.  In fact, it is a little known fact that some of us don't go to work and instead stay home to play with mud. I am guilty of this.  I am a potter and I say this with a straight face, who is self taught, and who has learned from my own mistakes countless times.  From wedging to coning, to bisque firing at the proper temperature, to glazing correctly, I have made about every mistake out there, except for blowing up my kiln...I know a little about how to achieve results, and a lot about how not to achieve them.   Experience is the best teacher and in pottery, some say the only teacher!  The only way to ,learn is to do it.  Whatever it is, in pottery, you have to jump right in and let your hands be your guide.  They will tell you when your clay is exactly centered and when it is not.  Your hands lead you through every aspect of pottery except of course the firing.  To a point tho, your glazing techique that is done by your hands can either make or break a good result.  Clay choice, is the first thing you have to decide upon...Based on that, your kiln will be your next decision, the temperatures you will be firing at and then your glazes...Everything else is in your head. Your designs, your thoughts, they are all inside you.

I have several pics here on Ebay from my collection as well as a few up for auction.  Please take a look, and if you would like to know the specifics of them, let me know.

Happy potting, and above all else you have to practice, practice practice!