My first 8-week pottery session is finished! I’m doing some open studio time this winter, punctuated with three mornings of group instruction, trying to figure out the puzzle of throwing. At this point I’m still wondering who’s in charge, the wheel or me. It’s hard to tell. I’ll have an almost-perfect bowl spinning evenly around, […]
Since starting my Etsy shop in late October, I’ve found it hard to consistently find good days to photograph my art. Cold, snow, and especially wind always seem to show up just as I finish a new piece and run out to photograph it. Frustrating, to say the least. So I searched around online and […]
Zia has been wanting a wood necklace since I started making them. She hesitantly offered me $10 for the first dog necklace I made, which was all the money she had in the world. It was super cute, but the necklace was a custom order and I couldn’t give it (or sell it) to her. […]
We have a new stove! And it is lovely, let me tell you. Our old one started leaking gas, so we had to keep the gas turned off under the stove. For a couple of weeks we turned it on just to make dinner–including Thanksgiving dinner–and that’s about it. Our old stove was gas (obviously), […]
