Hi I'm Tina and just joined here, I'm a total newbie in pottery.  I had some clay that were bought a couple of years ago, obviously they were bone dry. I  attempted to recycle them and start making something. However it didn't go well.  The problem is  that  although the clay was wet and sticky (to wooden board and my hands), at the same time many small cracks were forming when I tend to flat it with a rollor. or making a coil out of it.  I tried to wedge it for half an hour, addin