The existence of prehistoric pottery shards paints a clear picture of ancient artisanal practices while highlighting ancestral clumsiness. Leave behind traces of your own civilization with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of paint-your-own pottery at Ceramics in the Buff in Garner.

Ceramics in the Buff lauds fearless brush wielders for their adventurous creativity with neatly arranged shelves packed with bare, paintable statuettes, dishes, and trinkets. Customers can peruse the dozens of monochromatic ceramics, envisioning the pigmentable potential of a garden-colored gnome ($3.50), the fiery visage of a tiki mug ($7.25), or the joyous personalities of the smiling rock buddies planter ($15.74). With the paint, glaze, and studio time included in the price of each piece, treasure hoarders can personalize coin-collector banks ($5–$10.50) from start to finish, and Oktoberfest re-enactors can adorn their own steins ($31–$31.50). Equipped with an array of hues, paint daubers eradicate beige featurelessness with splashes of color or encrypted secret-admirer notes to housekeepers.

Customers may also apply the value of this Groupon toward any of the studio's craft classes. Under the guidance of instructors, students fashion a paint-your-own original in a drop-in hand-building class (priced by the cost of clay, $22.50/25 lb.), dedicate four weeks to the introductory art of card weaving ($45), or learn the refined techniques of dousing oneself in paint.