Akin

Happy Birthday, sweet Olive 🥰.

framily, thank you for your patience as I tended to my daughter this year. Never did I imagine being away from the studio over a year, but here we are…still enjoying mama life too much to return. Someday ☺️

Thank you to each & everyone of you for supporting my small business in all the ways, whether you liked/shared a post or purchased a piece this year. Big changes in my personal life mean some changes in my ceramic making next year. Not quite sure when I’ll make it back with new work, but signing off for now to rest. If you’re still looking for a gift for a special someone (even if that special someone is yourself 🥰), head over to for the last planters of the season 🤗. See you in 2023!

Have been working on a whooooooole lotta pieces ahead of the fall season and so satisfying to see these pieces make their way into the kiln for their first firing. Thanks to kiln tech extraordinaire , every.single.piece made it in😍. Now off to clean & reset my table to prep for unloading these pieces for glazing 🫠🫠

Thrilled to have pieces at .
To celebrate Brooklyn Pride and Greenpoint Q***r Initiative, 10% of all proceeds from sales this weekend will be donated to . These love is love striped planters are sold out on my site so they are exclusively available for the season.

Shop online or in person at 252 Franklin St ❤️. Say hi to Joe, the owner, who has been an absolute dream to work with. And check the beautiful matching window design by 🌈🌈🌈

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Morning light at the studio 🌞. Also, spy a ginger root vase by upper left corner 😍. Photo by the lovely

Love is love flow planters are back in stock for the first time this year 🎉

Since it’s too-hot-to-be-outdoors, I am sitting down to do (one of) my least favorite small business tasks…updating the shop! Surprise drop June 1 at 12pm 🤞

These new trinket jars are my absolute fave! Coming in rainbow flow and a few new colors for all your precious little somethings 😍

I’ve been working on some new pieces…bringing you tiny stacked trinket dishes at the next site update ❤️

Y’all I’ve been inching (or centimetering?) towards the next site update and I’m *almost* there. Rainy days are apparently good days for working on this task 😭. In the meantime, speckled or freckled 🌈?

Hey Friends,

I am holding a fundraiser raffle for UNICEF Protect the Children of Ukraine Fund which helps Ukrainian children have access to safe water, nutrition, health care, education and protection.

🇺🇦$10 per raffle ticket to win this planter (plant included if you're local NYC). Free pick up in Brooklyn or $10 domestic shipping.

🇺🇦Venmo .

🇺🇦Raffle ends April 1 at 12pm. Will DM randomly choose the winner by EOD April 1.

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This or that?

Every new tumbler is my favorite tumbler, but this piece is really my favorite 😭.
Williamsburg til 6pm ✌️

First mug of ❤️

At Williamsburg all weekend. Come say hi 😍

A belated thank you to everyone who supported my small business in 2021. Thank you for spreading the word. Thank you for buying a piece. Thank you for saying hi at markets. Just THANK YOU 🙏. Excited to work on a few new shapes and designs for an early February site update ✌️

Y’all, site is live for email subscribers until 2pm today! Open for everyone after that time. 10% of December sales will be donated to one of my favorite local charities HEART OF DINNER 💙💙

Aaaand back to studio today to prep for this weekend. Definitely bringing a few love is love flow planters! Will be at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday only, 11-6pm. Tagged are a few other vendors I’m looking forward to checking out!!

Obsessed about this new ocean ombré bud vase. Packing this up for this weekend 😍

Loaded my first kiln today with all the holiday pieces. Thanks to kiln Tetris expert for helping. Can you EVEN with his hair? ❤️

Say hello to the new blue ombré flow planter. This one is headed to Canada, but working on a few more for the next update 🌊

Restocked. This and more www.akinbk.com 🔥

Took a well deserved rest and relax (read: napping) day to recalibrate after a week of intense prepping for upcoming markets. Next site update is Nov 18 at 12pm. Also, super excited to join on Dec 4&5. Will have a few new designs exclusively for this market so come say hi ☺️

Slipcast. Smooth. Fire. Glaze. Paint underglaze. Fire. Rinse. Repeat. Each planter is handmade & hand painted. At studio most days and some nights lately and so grateful for the community at ❤️

Sneak 👀 at new planter series in the works 🌈

Making some rainbow freckles teacups today. Glazing and firing these tomorrow! Shop update coming soon. Promise 🙌