Yes, the Thing is ceramic. I had another cool piece I bought at the same time from the same student artist, but I gave it away to a friend a long time ago.

I have SO MANY MORE weird things in this house. I could easily do a Part II. Most of my weird stuff came to me in odd ways. Very little of it was paid for. Almost all the furniture in my house is either hand-made or old. That church bench next to Brigitte was sitting in someone's front yard with a "free" sign on it. I yelled at my husband to stop the car, and he and my son had to carry it home.