I SWEAR I'VE BEEN WORKING!!!

These are the 2nd run on the plates I've been working on for a custom dinnerware set...
I'd didn't like the 1st set so I did them...again.
The bowls are done, the small plates are done.
None of it is glazed but... I am moving right along... still have work to do on Jake's 3 costumes...
It's all good.

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PHEW!

It's True

Still NO CLAY POST!!!
I'm JONESING!!!
In case you didn't believe me, Mike took some footage of me SNOWBOARDING
(BLACK DIAMOND BABY!!!) during our vacation.

I'm trying to cheer up...
Vacation Backlash:
I have 3 costumes to make for my son jake...
He's the prince in Once Upon a Mattress for his Middle School Drama Club...
The dress rehearsal is Saturday...
The KNICKERSI bought for him that don't fit can't be returned...over 10 days(we were away!!)
I'm making my own for him...
I broke my printer... removing paper from a paper jam,
I ripped out some ribbon...can't just SNAP it back in!!! Argh...
So I HAVE TO take it somewhere tomorrow...
Can't print USPS labels ...
I have to do it the old fashioned way in person at the post office where:
They WILL hate me...
Had a teapot shipped back to me from a show BROKEN...
I'm doing like 20 loads of laundry...
My skin is molting(yes loverly, I know).
MY tax work is sitting on my desk ready to attack me.
Oh... still more to unpack...

My knee is better though...
Now the other one's bruised...
:)

Snowboarding

Well... I can't upload any good photos from this computer I am using at the place we are staying in Beaver Creek, Colorado...
BUT...
I am having a great time.
We go home on Valentines Day... My taped up knee is surviving...of course the other one is bruised... But... THIS is SNOW BOARDING!
My kids took a lesson today and my husband went back country snow boarding in Vail Pass...So I went in the singles line and got in A LOT of runs..
I tried some trees too,in and out...sometimes successful... and sometimes I wiped out... I DID NOT HIT ANY TREES! But I had done some with the family and this built up my confidence more...
Practiced 360s- on land(both directions)...feels like ballet...
I have decided I like the pattern the board makes in the snow... the s-curves remind me alot of the ceramic work I do....
So...
It's coming to an end tomorrow, I am craving clay.... yummy clay... I have 8 plates to trim and carve and hopefully they stayed damp!!! But I have several things to work on...as usual!
I will try to relax... until I return...then I will try to not stress out!

Ready for Beaver Creek

and snow boarding... all taped on and tomorrow we hit the friendly skies...
this is my knee... taped in place from the last trip... wish me luck... don't worry... I wear wrist guards!

Action Shots...

A friend of mine had to take some photos for her photography class...
Hence... ACTION SHOTS:

A vase is a vase is a vase...anyways...

So these are the 3 pieces I will try and submit to the
500 vases book...
You never know...
500 is a lot of vases...
of course...
there are ALOT of potters...
however...
I like them...
I am happy with the forms and the glazes I mixed up went on nicely as well...
so I can photo and send by the deadline tomorrow...
and ya just never know...
ya know?

Creative Development

I've been developing vases/vessels and I've SMUSHED quite a few and have some others that I like but these are the latest... some get too busy and I am liking these forms and the gestural quality... I anticipate some slumping of those delicate parts in the firing process... any tips or prop suggestions are always appreciated... I do have some ideas... or just let the chips fall...

Glazing will be an issue as I need to boogie on making new glazes and no time to experiment with these... It will be something tried and true I think... I have the 12(13-1 extra) bowls of my 3 piece 12 person place setting commission ready to bisque and I really need to get back to the things people have already ordered... I also have 2 sushi sets to do...


Before I forget... PLEASE vote in the Etsy Mud Team Sweetheart Vase Challenge!!!! Click HERE!!!
Details:

♥ Sweetheart Vase Challenge ♥
VOTE now for your favorite Sweetheart Vase!
Participating Etsy Mud Team members have created a Valentine's Day themed vase. They may be functional or non-functional.
All visitors who vote in our challenge will receive a coupon for 25% off the price of anything in our Etsy Mud Team shop www.etsymudteam.etsy.com.
The challenge winner will be able to select a pottery prize donated by EMT members. View the Prizes here!
Accepting Votes: 1/27/2009 to 2/2/2009

Keeping in mind I have a piece in there... seen in my previous blog post...HOWEVER, be sincere! There are some super pieces!!!

Valentine's Day is JUST around the corner...XOXO

Feel free to take a gander around my SHOP.
I made a couple of vases to commemorate this fabulous commercial holiday of LOVE!!!!
These were a fun first for me... there were definitely technical difficulties but this is a concept and form I'd like to explore further...
Pretty fun!





































































AND P.S. My mother went to go see the Baltimore Clayworks Show and although there is a lot of chatter about my blue teapot, the cream one sold!!!

Repetitive?

I know this may be repetitive but now the Baltimore Clayworks Teapots IV Show is in Slide show Format : HERE.

What's in the water?

So...I've been getting requests lately... the shop has been pretty dead....
Of course I've really been only renewing items...not listing anything new... but I'm getting requests of special orders... and the one for 8 of these napkin rings came from France....
No method to the madness...
Just interesting to me...
I have a few things to list but... I dunno...
I'm a little lazy on the listing front...
PLUS...
I have a special order for a 3 piece 12 person place setting that I need to get on AND one sushi set AND I want to make a sushi set for friends who had us come on vacation with them... so... I've got alot on my plate...
Aaaahahahaaha! Get it ? Alot on my PLATE?
I'm such a card...
A little giddy from the BIG FAT INAUGURATION DAY!!!!
Oh... and I've made sweetheart vases I have to fire, glaze and refire... and several other vases as I want to apply to the 500 vases book... so...
I SWEAR...I have been doing something other that playing SCRAMBLE on facebook...I swear!
The treadmill, however, forgets what I look like... I'm forgetting too...

Great Show

The show at Baltimore Clayworks: Teapot IV opened last night and I was there and home the same night.
I'm here now to blog about it!
That's my cream piece under the sign...
It was really nice and I really enjoyed having some old friends come and check it out and then meet at a nearby bar/restaurant to hang out with their kids and my kids, etc...For a lot of my old friends this pottery/ceramic work that I do came after they knew me as a fashion designer so it's interesting....I was very pleased with the way the show was set and I truly enjoyed meeting the resident artist at Baltimore Clayworks: Yoshi Fujii whose work and nuances in his work I have an obvious connection too... We had a lovely exchange of thoughts and that was really nice for me.

I guess I'll just be posting SOME photos from the show but I did, in fact, take photos of every single teapot. So if you are looking for one....let me know...























These two are Joy Tanner's...my blog friend.













This celadon piece is Yoshi's.



The one on the right is a favorite by Gwendolyn Yoppolo
(I have a serving(?) dish of hers that I love!)

A Friendly Reminder...

Just a friendly little reminder that the Teapots IV Show opens at the Baltimore Clayworks on THIS Saturday night...
Reception from 6-8pm... I am planning on coming by...
Most likely on the early side... heading back to the Garden State after...

I am interested in seeing the eclectic mix of teapots.... It should be a nice exhibition!
The exhibition runs through the end of February so if you are in the area... go take a peek!


ALSO...opening the same night!
An Abundance of Cups
A Solo Exhibition by Deborah Bedwell
Jan. 10 to Feb. 27, 2009
It looks beautiful!

Happy New Year -Another Front Page!!!

I was included in a lovely treasury today that made it to the front page of ETSY!!!
Same set... the Place Settings that are made to order.... Nice exposure! Thank you to "muppetloon"....
I should also thank "cowriegirl" for the awesome treasury she included me in found in the last post!

A lovely way to start off the new year!

A happy and healthy one to everyone!

Last Day Of The Year... Front Page of ETSY...

Front Page of ETSY....
That's a fun announcement for the last day of the year...
I really didn't have any other great visuals to share so this came just in the nick of time...
Too tired to do a year in review... But...
The year had... well... a lot of great times rolled up in it...
Then there were some not as great times but...
I am quite pleased to have 2009 waiting in the wings and I am very thankful for all that I have.
The Love, The Opportunities, The Present.
I'm one lucky girl.
Thanks for your support.
It has meant a lot....

HAPPY CHRISTMASKWAZAKKAH !!!

No photos... too complicated from my friend's laptop...
Happy Holidays all!
My cold is better... not pefect but definitely better...
The mountains of Whistler are cold and snowy right now...
Several Bruises and pulled muscles from snowboarding...
Hence, all is well...
Big plans for the new year.I haVE A FEW ORDERS TO FILL ON THE FRONT END...
AND.. Yoga... FOR SURE!!!!
Read Gargoyle if you get a chance... it's wild!
Best wishes all!!!

200 Etsy Sales and ON VACATION!

This is what my ETSY banner currently looks like.

Well we are leaving today ...supposedly...for Whistler...but it is snowing here...so this could be one
LONG STRANGE TRIP...
Not to mention I have this awful cold flu bug...CRANKY GIRL...
I will RALLY!!!

I want to thank Jerry from the blog-world for helping me reach my sales goal!

Meanwhile...
I wish you all a lovely holiday season
and here is my snail mail holiday card...
I'm still making them!!!


















This is how I am hoping to look very soon!



















I'll be following you bloggers from my blackberry so give me some good reads!!!!!

Better than Pottery...

I am plugging away with listing, selling, shipping, making holiday cards(why oh why???), last possible firings, wrapping, packing(Whistler here we come...) and
I can'tt hink of anything I've(we've) "made" batter than these two...
Totally different from each other yet remarkably similar... smart as well as smart-alecks, artists in their own right, adventurers as well , a skier and and boarder, fric and frac .
Our boys....









In case I forget....
Have the most very happy holidays!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

50 listings on ETSY....

Well... I have been trying to raise the number of listings I have on ETSY.
I hear 100 is a good "lucky" number... but...not there yet... and so it goes... Not complaining...but when they sell... you need to list something else...


































I am on the last 3 pages of THE DIVIDED HEART and I have to say...It is a great book...at least for me ...and any artist or writer or actor or dancer or frankly anyone who has a passion/drive to their work who is a mother(although an involved father may understand too...)

Finally!!!

Put a bunch of my Judi Tavill Ceramic Porcelain Pendants that I do so well with at little shows...up on ETSY!!!!
The pendant is $10 the cords are $4 and $8....
BAHHHHHHGAIN!
They are great to wear around... very fun and super little gifts!
This gives you an idea: