{"id":4320,"date":"2026-01-21T11:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:09:54","slug":"year-of-the-horse-shop-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/21\/year-of-the-horse-shop-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Horse – Shop Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy (early) Lunar New Year, everyone! \ud83e\udde7\ud83d\udc0e\u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026 is the Year of the Horse and I’ve made LIDDED memory jars, horse totems, and a Wave Wolf somehow snuck into the celebrations as well.
A few of these pieces have already found homes via my early bird access over on my Patreon<\/a>, but there are still some goodies available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a look at the of the memory jars with a new Running Horse motif!
What\u2019s a Memory Jar?\u2028\u2028 A Memory Jar is a great way to remember the big and small positive memories that occur throughout the year.
You write down whatever memory\u2014big or small, store it in the jar, and at the end of the year you open it and read through all of the memories you\u2019ve saved!<\/p>\n\n\n

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As you can see, I’ve gotten a lot more “loose” and more free when it comes to my designs this round compared to my first Running Horse motif. I quite like the freedom this new style is giving me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also so proud of myself for finally figuring out how to create lidded jars! This was a goal of mine for so long and I finally accomplished it last year.
Here’s a look at the Year of the Horse jars I made for QCCC members as a test run for these shop ones:<\/p>\n\n\n

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I also made some experimental mugs and vessels to play around with a speckled clay!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I also made an army of little horse totems!<\/p>\n\n\n

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And a Mini Menagerie Wave Wolf that the horses have adopted into their herd LOL<\/p>\n\n\n

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Happy (early) Lunar New Year, everyone! \ud83e\udde7\ud83d\udc0e\u2728 2026 is the Year of the Horse and I’ve made LIDDED memory jars, horse totems, and a Wave Wolf somehow snuck into the celebrations as well. A few of these pieces have already found homes via my early bird access over on my Patreon, but there are still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,31],"tags":[16,24,30],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-pottery","category-shop-update","tag-art","tag-pottery","tag-the-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}