> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.gchicco.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# With my own two hands
- URL: https://www.gchicco.com/with-my-own-two-hands/
- Published: 2022-04-10T21:01:21.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-09T18:49:36.000Z
- Author: Gianfranco Chicco
- Tags: Blog, Craftsmanship

Workweeks have been pretty intense so I spent the weekend recharging. I finally picked up the pots and cups I made over the last couple of months at Tokobo Pottery. They are raw and unrefined, even ugly. But you know what? Tea and coffee taste better in them just because of the pleasure I took in shaping each one with my own hands. ⁣  
⁣  
This blue and white guinomi came better than expected. Here it’s surrounded by some of my favourite tea utensils, old and new. The tea is a Summer Miaoli Oolong from Taiwan by Postcard Teas. The indigo kyusu (teapot) is by Shinya Take of the collective Kasama Potters, the gong dao bei (fairness jug) is by the Peng family (also via Postcard Teas), the copper chazutzu (tea caddy) is by Kaikado, and the tea scoop is by Mihai Teascoops.⁣  
⁣  
The cookbook is “Cooking With Scorsese”, a brilliant new publication by HATO Press and the little 3D printed fox, aka “Von Quintiero” was a gift by Monita.⁣

> I can change the world  
> With my own two hands  
> Make a better place  
> With my own two hands  
> Make a kinder place  
> Oh, with my  
> Oh, with my own two hands  
> \- With My Own Two Hands, Ben Harper, 2003

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2023/01/20220410-Tea-session-with-a-cup-I-made-myself-002-DSCF4222.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2023/01/20220410-Tea-session-with-a-cup-I-made-myself-010-DSCF4243.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2023/01/20220410-Tea-session-with-a-cup-I-made-myself-004-DSCF4227.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2023/01/20220410-Tea-session-with-a-cup-I-made-myself-007-DSCF4233.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2023/01/20220410-Tea-session-with-a-cup-I-made-myself-014-DSCF4255.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2023/01/20220410-Tea-session-with-a-cup-I-made-myself-013-DSCF4254.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/01/d0/01d08198-2c67-4cdc-a041-7d7c7d50e709/content/images/2023/01/20220410-Tea-session-with-a-cup-I-made-myself-008-DSCF4239.jpg)