Hi Rebecca.🖐 I am still a newbie. Have been playing with clay for 2,5 years and loved every minute of it. Since glazes are expensive I did start making my glazes (from recipes from glazy.org) about 6 months ago and that is also much fun, although it can also get pretty frustrating since here in Iceland there’s a narrow supply of ingredients in a very small shop here in Iceland. So figuring out what works on my clay takes a lot of time and effort. Still, I love doing it and thus making my pieces really personal. 
It also feeds the nerd inside me.😉 All the experiments!