Ann Scranton

@annsy

PNW potter, baker, knitter, lefty church lady, mom of a teenager. Trying to love my neighbor but dang, it’s hard these days! She/her. Aka Vanilla Bean Ceramics!

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Ann Scranton@annsy· 20d

Happy 5th potterversary to me! I made these mugs today, and I can’t wait to see how the rainbow “sprinkles” turn out. I’m gonna add bright pink glaze, we are leaning into the cupcake vibes, it’ll be the cheeriest mug! #pottery

A mug made of grey clay (which will turn white when fired) with small specks in various colors on it.

Ann Scranton@annsy· May 23

I have shared this at work so many times

A Threads? post from herlifeandwork
that says: “the year is 2029. i start my work day by logging into the authentication app and plugging a six digit code from my phone into the computer. after repeating this process 300 more times for every application and website i use, i am finally ready to get to work. it is now 5pm and time to go home.”

Ann Scranton@annsy· May 23

Made mini oatmeal cream pies tonight. Have to wait till tomorrow to eat them (they need to hang out in the fridge for a bit to meld and soften), but they’re worth the wait!

A tray of small, light brown oatmeal sandwich cookies, with a femme baker Lego figurine in the center, for scale.

A small, light brown oatmeal sandwich cookie in the foreground, with a femme baker Lego figurine next to it for scale. There are more cookies behind them.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Feb 17

I will be making pancakes for dinner tonight (American, diner-style), and I usually make Swedish semlor but am skipping it this year for various reasons. Here’s a pic from 2023, when Fat Tuesday was also my birthday!

A semla (bun with almond paste and whipped cream) with a lit sparkler birthday candle sticking out the top of it

Ann Scranton@annsy· Feb 15

My husband just peeled what is probably the biggest clove of garlic that either of us have ever seen, good LORD

An adult human hand holding an ENORMOUS clove of garlic

Ann Scranton@annsy· Feb 14

The problem with making marbled red and pink cake for Valentine’s Day shenanigans is that the batter looks disconcertingly meaty.

Marbled red and pink cake batter in a big loaf pan

Ann Scranton@annsy· Nov 24

AND they send you free stickers!!

A sheet of Pocky-themed stickers (plus some stickers from other products that the company makes)

Ann Scranton@annsy· Nov 24

When you’re an adult you can just order a big ol’ box of Pocky straight from the company! No one can stop you!

Boxes of multipacks of different flavors of Pocky - including a box of giant Pocky! - lined up on a table

Ann Scranton@annsy· Nov 4

We got a seat like this and a little step stool. The small seat made it less scary for him to get onto the toilet, he didn’t feel like he was going to fall in. And it didn’t require an adult to put a separate kid seat on every time.

Toilet that shows a small kid-sized seat that folds down on top of the adult-sized seat.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Oct 20

I mean, it was approximately this era, so

4-5 year old curly redheaded child, blowing bubbles. The picture is from the early 1980s.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Sep 30

Well, this is exactly the sort of thing I love to see on an official government website. www.hud.gov#openModal

A screenshot of a modal on hud.gov that says, “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands.
The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.”

Ann Scranton@annsy· Sep 30

It doesn’t help with the intentional tearing-down of the systems that help keep us safe, of course, but I have found this app to be very useful for getting informed of outbreaks/recalls/etc! Pictures of products, map of affected states, all easy to see at a glance. Not free but worth it to me.

Screenshot of “Food Recalls & Alerts” app in App Store

Ann Scranton@annsy· Sep 29

I got my gilded little dalahäst trinket dish back from the kiln, and I love it so! #pottery

A small square trinket dish, made from a speckled creamy white clay. It has a 4x4 pattern of small black dala horses on it. The rim of the dish and one of the dala horses are shiny gold.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jul 23

(This is me but with pottery)

A four-panel comic. First panel: a red brain sits on a character’s head, saying happily, “idea! Idea! Idea!” Second panel: character brandishes a pencil and says, “awesome! Time to draw!” Third panel: brain says, “no. No draw.” Fourth panel: brain says, “only idea.”

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jul 2

Thanks!! Glaze colors inspired by this dress, which I’m sure you recognize, let’s see if I can get it close!

Zoomed-in shot of a floor-length skirt that has bright pink details on a pale aqua background

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jul 2

Going outside my comfort zone at the pottery studio with this big vase! I almost never carve things, and when I do it’s usually simple geometric stuff. I don’t ever freehand things like this! (There are already parts that didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to, but that’s the way it goes 🤷‍♀️)

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jun 17

I am getting pressure to use AI at work, and I DON’T WANT TO. I can think for myself! I want to learn how to make excel do the thing I need it to do, and clarify my own thinking in the process!! I find myself thinking the last lines of this a lot.

A tumbler post and follow-up, both by the same user:
ohcorny
“it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.”
ohcorny
“i wisely turned off the notes on this when it was at 700 but oh my god stop telling me what you "just" use it for in the notes shut the fuck up shut the fuck up I AM NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST, I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS.”

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jun 3

(No, I am not kidding 😂)

A screenshot of Dropbox search results, showing a file called “corny jokes sorted.xlsx”

Ann Scranton@annsy· Apr 27

Made a lil cake for a friend this weekend (ok it isn’t little)

A two-tiered heart-shaped wedding cake on a silver platter. The cake is frosted all over with pale pink icing, and there’s bright red and purple piping over that - borders and swags and shells - and a few white pearls. It says “til death” in red on top of the cake.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Apr 21

Happy rainbow egg salad day (week?) to all who celebrate! 😂

Ann Scranton@annsy· Mar 5

I didn’t make any semlor this year - bread or ceramic - but here are the teeny ceramic ones I made last year (they’re pendants!) and both kinds that I made the year before. Happy Fat Tuesday! #ceramics #pottery #semlor #fattuesday

Three very small ceramic semlor bun necklaces on an adult hand.

Two ceramic semlor and one edible, real semla, on a napkin.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Feb 22

birthday! at the pottery studio 🥳 (Also: finally glazed some pots! Got some lovely drips that miraculously stayed off the kiln shelf, too) #pottery #handmade #clay

Two mugs, greyish and matte, freshly made out of clay.

A pile of ceramic work: a couple of green textured platters platters, two white trinket trays with dala horses printed on them, a blue textured mug, and a drippy blue-green bowl.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Feb 17

I signed up to do church coffee hour today, because I LOVE baking for Valentine’s Day. Which is funny because my husband and I have never done much for it! But I love a theme, so. I made probably the prettiest sugar cookies I’ve ever made, and hidden-heart cake. And blondies.

Heart shaped sugar cookies, decorated with swirled icing in pink, white, yellow, blue, and purple, arranged in an array on a circular plate.

A table with trays of heart-themed treats set out on it, along with heart-themed napkins and table runner. Also, a vase of Lego flowers.

Slices of chocolate cake that have a red-pink-white heart in the center of each slice. The cake slices are laid out in rows on a square platter.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jan 26

💕Hearts hearts hearts! 💕 I love the Valentine’s Day aesthetic, for some reason, so my pottery is all hearts this time of year 🥰 This platter will get underglaze added to the hearts once it’s been bisque fired!

Oval platter with rows of hearts embossed on it. The tray is made of clay and hasn’t been fired yet.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jan 25

Cloud and sun breads*, getting ready to become French toast *challah and pandoro, respectively

Slices is bread laid out on an oven rack. On the left, challah slices that look like clouds. On the right, enormous pandoro slices that look like suns.

Ann Scranton@annsy· Jan 5

Finally made it back to the pottery studio today after months - burnout + vestibular neuritis (which has interfered with driving) have kept me away, but it was so good to be back! And Finley (the neighborhood cat who has adopted the studio) remembered me 😊 #pottery

A freshly-made clay mug, sitting on a round board. The mug is grey with a heart pattern embossed into the soft clay.

A grey-brown tabby cat with white paws sits on a work table at the pottery studio, his pink tongue captured mid-lick

Ann Scranton@annsy· Dec 25

And, finally, here’s the Christmas morning (cinnamon almond) coffee cake. Merry Christmas! 🎄

A coffee cake ring topped with almonds and cream cheese glaze

Ann Scranton@annsy· Dec 25

Oatmeal cookies: iced

Oatmeal cookies with cinnamon icing drizzled on them

Ann Scranton@annsy· Dec 25

Peanut butter: blossomed

Ann Scranton@annsy· Dec 25

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