New Items!

Even though I've been on hiatus from the blog the past few months, I definitely have not been at a loss with pottery painting... take a look!

Part of my very first wholesale order! 

Another item from my first wholesale order

Testing out a new mug shape... what do you think?

New honey jar style mug with flower design

Matching ice cream bowls

Swirly mugs for the wholesale order

Crazy dots for wholesale order

Crazy dots on a sugar bowl for my friend Sylvia

New honey jar style mug with orchid flower design

Most recent project

My friends, Paul and Annie, got married in Saint Augustine, Florida last Monday.  As part of the tradition goes, there is a rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding.  At this dinner, Annie wanted to give gifts to the father figures in her life.  She asked me if I'd make some mugs for her.  Here they are.

What's been keeping me busy

Hello 2 followers.  I apologize for my 3-month break from posting.  I've been working on a few custom orders over the past few months.  Take a gander...

Wedding Gift

 For my sweet cousin

nesting bowls

utensil holder

soap/lotion dispenser

spoon rest

the whole kit & caboodle

Monogrammed Mugs
For a college reunion weekend

Dotted Tray
For my favorite Persian Princess

There is another project in the works to be delivered next week.  I'll post those pictures then.  I don't want to spoil any surprises! 

More crazy dots!

A few months ago I started working on a new design idea.  It was based on my popular Christmas ornaments, which are covered in dots:

I get a little OCD with these dots - the action of making the dots in varying sizes and so close, but not touching, is relaxing to me.  Sometimes I feel like I can't stop... more... dots...  I shouldn't worry about that, right?  After trying the crazy dots on different kinds of pottery, a new twist came to me in a vision (no pun intended.)  The color-blindness tests are a bunch of dots like these.  Don't you remember them from 5th grade science class?

courtesy of www.moillusions.com

I was inspired!  Monogrammed mugs, color-blindness-test style.  Here's my interpretation:

Crazy dots!

I'm working on some new designs, incorporating my OCD dots.  What do you think?

inspired by those color blindness tests

side view

Ocean dot soap pump

More new pieces for Spring!

Soap pump - in my new Ho-Jo's inspired design & colorway

Ho-Jo snack set: funky triangle plate and bowl

Close-up of detail

 

Ho-Jo snack set in alternate colorway

Aerial view

Ho-Jo snack set from another angle

Remember Howard Johnson's?   Not just a restaurant and not just a motel. The distinctive orange, sloped roof of the restaurant, topped with a turquoise spire.  Inside you'd find all-American favorites like grilled cheese, meatloaf, tuna salad and orange sherbet.  Thinking about it now is bringing back memories from summers in the 70's on Cape Cod - crossing the Bourne Bridge and spying the orange and turquoise as we crested the bridge's peak and headed toward our vacation destination, hoping my parents would let us stop for ice cream.  Such simple times back then, it seemed...  Anywho, that's what inspired me to create these new pieces.  Well, that, and seeing a recent episode of Mad Men that featured Ho-Jo's.

I created the snack sets thinking they'd be nice for serving hors d'oeuvres in non-mammoth portions.  To go off on a tangent a bit, I've been reading so much lately about the war on obesity.  This is not a new problem in America, but it seems like portion control and eating food that's closer to where it came from (e.g., local fruits and veggies rather than a chemical-laden Twinkie that could survive the Apocalypse) could help solve the problem.  With that in mind, I thought why make a giant serving set?  Why not do my share to help and make some smaller-sized pieces to encourage smaller portions?  Right?  You're welcome.

I had some issues color-correcting these photos.  The turquoise is all the same color, though it doesn't look like it here.  The top two pictures are the most accurate, color-wise.  The orange, in real life, is a warm, cantaloupe color.  Hopefully your monitor will show the shades in a more uniform tone.  Maybe I will re-edit and re-post, since I have so much free time.  Yeah, okay.

new items! spring designs for the craft fair

At the end of the month, I have my very first craft fair.  Thursday, March 31, 7-9 at the Sandy Burr Country Club in Wayland, MA.  They are calling it a Pamper Party, which means cocktails and manicures are involved.  Hello?  Be there or be square!  I hate that saying, but I mean it.  I really think you should come. 

wave coaster

I've been working on some new items, especially for the event.

vine butter dish

Here are some teasers for you...  I had hoped to write another paragraph, going off on other tangents below the photos, but I'm still having issues with the whole photo-text-formatting-alignment dealio.  It's not jiving for me.  Anyway, I'll post again tomorrow because I still need to tell you about my custom necklace that arrived, my 3rd attempt at Indian (Ram's recipe), and a couple other things I can't remember at this moment.  I hate to admit I'm totally distracted by the Bachelor season finale right now.  Guilty pleasure....  so, enjoy the teasers and I'll see you again real soon now, ya hear?

wave tumbler

ice cream bowls

red & light blue

green & navy