How can it possibly be February already??!!! ACK! Usually, January is the month when I clean my studio, come up with new products, make new molds that have gotten too overused (they seriously get white fur on them when they are old – it’s a thing I swear), and I do a lot of my… READ MORE
One of my favorite books as a kid was The Phantom Tollbooth. One of the parts of The Phantom Tollbooth is when our brave character gets stuck in the Doldrums. It’s a place I feel too familiar with the past couple of months. I think it is the state of politics, the world, the normalization… READ MORE
I am so excited to share that I have solved a two year pinholing issue I have had on my large fruit bowls. Perhaps even you have wondered why doesn’t she sell many fruit bowls? Why are they never posted on Etsy? Why does she only have pictures from one photoshoot with them with her… READ MORE
Sometimes being an artist is not making art and sometimes it can feel like you don’t want to make art for long periods of time. If you are at all like me as an artist and you don’t feel like making art for long periods of time, you start to freak out and think I’ll never have… READ MORE
In my never ending questing, I decided to test a whole slew of new (to me) clay bodies this last two months. I insanely chose 8 clay bodies including two that were red in color, five that were porcelain clays and one new stoneware. It has been quite a process and definitely took more time than… READ MORE
Well not dirty in a deviant way but surely dirty in a clay way. Every Ceramicist I know MUST be a sado masochist in the dirty clay way. There are a million and one things that can go wrong every step of the way in the ceramics process. Even tried and true ways never work… READ MORE
I have to learn to say goodbye and everytime I do I sing that excellent Cole Porter song significantly titled “Everytime We Say Goodbye”. I’m much happier when I say goodbye to my ceramic pieces that go to live in people’s houses. They can bring happiness and joy to their new owner eating breakfast out… READ MORE