Ann Scranton

@annsy.bsky.social

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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!

A mug made of grey clay (which will turn white when fired) with small specks in various colors on it.
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.”
A tray of small, light brown oatmeal sandwich cookies, with a femme baker Lego figurine in the center, for scale.
A semla (bun with almond paste and whipped cream) with a lit sparkler birthday candle sticking out the top of it
An adult human hand holding an ENORMOUS clove of garlic
Marbled red and pink cake batter in a big loaf pan
A sheet of Pocky-themed stickers (plus some stickers from other products that the company makes)
Boxes of multipacks of different flavors of Pocky - including a box of giant Pocky! - lined up on a table
Toilet that shows a small kid-sized seat that folds down on top of the adult-sized seat.
4-5 year old curly redheaded child, blowing bubbles. The picture is from the early 1980s.
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.”
Screenshot of “Food Recalls & Alerts” app in App Store
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.
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.”
Zoomed-in shot of a floor-length skirt that has bright pink details on a pale aqua background
A tall, mostly cylindrical vase, slightly tapering toward the top. It is made of clay that is still damp, and looks grey. It has scattered flowers carved into the surface. The vase sits on a banding wheel that is being spun to show all sides of the vase.
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.”
A screenshot of Dropbox search results, showing a file called “corny jokes sorted.xlsx”
A screenshot of two tumblr posts by ohcorny, that read: “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. 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.”
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.
A bowl of multicolored dyed eggs
Three very small ceramic semlor bun necklaces on an adult hand.
Two mugs, greyish and matte, freshly made out of clay.
Heart shaped sugar cookies, decorated with swirled icing in pink, white, yellow, blue, and purple, arranged in an array on a circular plate.
Oval platter with rows of hearts embossed on it. The tray is made of clay and hasn’t been fired yet.
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.
A freshly-made clay mug, sitting on a round board. The mug is grey with a heart pattern embossed into the soft clay.
A coffee cake ring topped with almonds and cream cheese glaze
Oatmeal cookies with cinnamon icing drizzled on them
Peanut butter blossom cookies on a tray
A metal mixing bowl full of unwrapped Hershey kisses
Round chocolate cookies with geometric designs stamped into them. The darn brown cookies are glazed with translucent white.
Pliers on a cutting board, next to the little lid and remnants of one of the plastic loops that’s meant to open the lid on a milk carton. The loop is in pieces.
Two Lussekatter (traditional Swedish saffron buns, which are a-shaped and have a raisin in the center of each swirl) on a plate. The plate is on a tray that also has a lit candle on it.
A round church sanctuary in semi-darkness. There are white lights on the pillars and on Christmas trees, tall candelabras, and in the center, a Lucia pageant: girls in white gowns carrying candles, and one girl - the Lucia - has a crown of candles on her head.
A phone notification from LinkedIn, suggesting that I follow Snoop Dogg, the CEO of Death Row Records. This has less than nothing to do with my actual career/professional history, which LinkedIn should know!
8 cookies sheets on a counter. Each sheet is lined with parchment paper and has about 15 S-curled buns on it, with raisins in the center of each curl.
Square pieces of pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting on top, and an orange pumpkin with a brown stem and light green vine piped on top of each piece.
Image showing my user number of 139,773
Screenshot of the weather forecast, showing temps dropping into the 60s this week
A light brown clay mug with red, orange, yellow, and green leaves on it.
A breakfast nook with bundt pans mounted on the wall over the entrance
Closeup of a ceramic platter with a gently raised leaf design. The background is grey now (the natural color of the raw clay) and the leaves are in red-orange fall tones.
A small square trinket dish made out of clay. It has a design of oranges with green leaves and white blossoms against a grey background (will be white once fired).
Ceramic platter with a blue-green eucalyptus design on a creamy white background. The platter has deep red cherries sitting on it and next to it.
White woman with black glasses, long auburn hair in a braid, and a bright green shirt.
A photo of an oven’s digital display, showing 400 degrees.
An oblong cream colored platter with a design of blue-green eucalyptus leaves on it. There are deep red cherries sitting on and next to the platter.
Screenshot of an ad trying to sell a “revolutionary” file box
Screenshot of a conversation between a coffee shop employee and an anti-racist old lady with a sense of humor, from here: https://notalwaysright.com/do-not-mess-with-old-ladies/297134/
A ceramic box made to look like a slice of Concord grape pie