OK...Enough about me...sort of...

You have to buy this book if you are a mom and artist.
It is amazing and worth the postage from Australia!!!!

















AND Check out her blog.Cool chic. TOTALLY gets it!

OH...A big shout out to Leah Bearce Guerin
whose pitcher I bought just in time to pour our perfectly coordinating Gravy on Turkey Day:

READY...SET....SHOP!

Here we go... my studio is set for the sale...SUNDAY, MONDAY and...THURSDAY!!!!!
Lots of soft colors... and small items... while LURKING in the background of the photos id my BARGAIN BASEMENT stuff that I never want to see again...
Here is what it all looks like:






































































You may even notice all of those ceramic pendants in the mix... a favorite among locals...
I haven't listed a lot of this in my etsy shop basically because the quantity is overwhelming...however... that is my plan now that I am set up... Just not right to ignore the family anymore...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

All set. Well...not ALL set... but the arrangements are made! all natural... only trouble is... no ceramic vessels... PUMPKINS!
Hey... It was the right thing to do... HAVE A HAPPY DAY! I am thankful for a ton. I am also thankful to those of you who check in here so I'm not talking to myself...at least not ALL OF THE TIME!!!!

Opening on December 2nd!!!!

If you are in Steamboat Springs Colorado
December 2nd through February 1st... be sure to check out the
STEAMBOAT INVITATIONAL
TEAPOT SHOW
Art & Whimsy Show & Sale
3 of my teapots are in the show:

























































I hope they are well received and the snowboards and skiers like them!!!!

Starbursts

Not earth shattering but developing as an idea.
It may go no where.
Or a fun grouping/series.
Back to my fashion days... I like to create happy little vignettes.
Who knew?
You see.. I tend to develop ideas a little backwards.
I have an idea and I carve or whatever and then I feel like I've seen it before.
So I tried to figure out where these starbursts are coming from...
Don't really know but it feels vintage to me...
My Grandma Hattie's apartment...now that is an interesting discussion
all by itself... there was a metal(gold gilded of course) clock or mirror.
And crockery... like metal 60's or 70's crockery...
This is what happens to my brain at this hour.
Could be great.
Or it could be just a late night idea that in the light of day is not as fabulous...
BUT... I will try to work through it. It's a departure while not really.
Spikey. But Spikey in the Round.

Did you see this?

I was in Etsy Finds the other day...
In case you missed the brief and fleeting moment.

Peace

I'm feeling PINK...let's hope for your sake, it's temporary.

I am in uploading mode.
You can find this and some other fun items in my etsy shop.

If you buy it... it will come wrapped like this!

The goose is getting fat?

I have been making a lot of ornaments and "stuff" for my upcoming sales:

The following was what I sent out by email:

IT'S HOLIDAY SHOPPING TIME!
SHOP HANDMADE!

JUDI TAVILL CERAMICS
(handmade ceramic pottery, jewelry, ornaments, objects...great gifts.)

Rumson PTO Vendor Show (a collection of vendors) this MONDAY , November 10, 2008 6pm-9 pm
Forrestdale Middle School Cafeteria Forrest Road Rumson 

Fair Haven PTA Gift Show (a collection of vendors) Saturday, November 15, 2008 10am-4pm
Knollwood School All-Purpose Room 224 Hance Road Fair Haven NJ

...and then ....
the JUDI TAVILL CERAMICS BIG FAT STUDIO HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE and SALE
(with refreshments!!!)
10 Tyson Lane Rumson NJ 07760 


Sunday(day only) November 30th 9am-3pm(Thanksgiving Weekend *bring friends and relatives*)

Monday(day and evening) December 1st 9am-3pm and 7pm-10pm

Thursday(day and evening) December 4st 9am-3pm and 7pm-10pm

*If you can't make these dates I am happy to arrange a separate appointmant time! Feel free to give me a call.*

I must also add... I am itching for a bit of a shift in my work... so  newness in bigger ways may surface in the new year...ambiguous... ahhhh... indeed.

President Elect Obama...Check out these cupcakes!!!!

My friend Kristen who is an amazing potter made these cup cakes yesterday when she was waiting for the poles to close... and I have to say... they rock!
I am so happy for our country and how historic this is and
I really hope that we can come together and make progress.
Perhaps I drank the KOOL-AID but it tastes GOOD!
I may be an idealist but this is my blog and thats how I feel!

Voting Wierdness!

STRANGEST thing....
I was voting and this lovely little old lady told me I could go into the booth...
NO ONE else voting AT THE TIME
AND WHILE I was voting... ALL LIT UP...
She OPENS the curtain to"check something" and says... "OK, thanks."
So I cast my vote and I was APPAULED!
I said something as I was leaving to the others but...
I called the BD of elections and they said they would follow up...
They sounded sincere... but EEW!
And yuck.

On a Ceramic note... lots to glaze and fire.
TICK TOCK!

Mug Swap

I'm a member or the ♥♥ETSY MUD TEAM♥♥ and we did a mug exchange... so I got this lovely mug from my pal, Judy Nevius.




















Here I am with my new mug and my beverage of choice: DIET COKE...
Gotta Kick the habit!
Check out the MUD TEAM WEBSITE to see what we're up to!
Oh and...
Rock the Vote Tomorrow!
or shall I say BAAAAAA Rock the Vote!

Love this!

Can you tell I'm all pottery'd out?
... I've been making making...
for the holiday season...
trinkets and such...
but I love this video!

Boo.

Happy Halloween.
My Boys....
It scares me too.

Hanging Out!

A small selection of my work is currently "hanging out" at the
LAUREL TRACEY GALLERY in Red Bank, NJ. So... if you get a chance, stop by to visit it... and check out the gorgeous paintings!

I forgot: Cake.Yum.

Did I mention how great the evening was...
A little surprise... my 40th was 8/6/08 the surprise was 10/18/08 .
So I was SURPRISED!
The food was super and the CAKE rocked!!!!

OUCH!

So... I did something to my back...
OUCH...






































I sold this pitcher to my friend Lisa from college...
who I just reunited with on facebook...
She is sending it to her mom in NY(through me) for her birthday.
Lisa has been living in London for years...
This is one of my favoite pieces...
Richard Aerni(whose work is FABULOUS) spoke highly of this piece to me at Peters Valley ...
That alway helps to hear something positive when you feel like you have fallen into an ABYSS!
Anyway... It belongs to Lisa's mom now...
I hope it brings her some joy.
That's a big part of why I do this stuff!

Mary Mary Quite Contrary

SO... I have this new favorite customer...
She lives in Wisconsin and I just think she has great taste...
She wins the award for quantity and quality purchases!
If you get a chance, Check out her Etsy Shop... she makes super cool beads!
I love her houses...



















p.s. The SALE continues in my store

Happy Time

I finished my "Artist Statement" and my "Resume", filed my sales taxes for the quarter... shipped out my entry for the Baltimore Clayworks Teapot Show.
Ick! The whole thing makes me nauseous...REJECTION....... not one of my favorite words. BUT.It's "Happy Time"! Sorry that I digressed.
My 8 year old calls it happy time... as "Happy Hour" was said in front of him and he began referring to it as "Happy Time" and well... it caught on.

Don't you love the glow of the computer screen as it highlights my unsightly age spots... after 40, WE call them age spots..

I have my teapots for the Steamboat Show tucked up on the shelf in the office with the entries for Baltimore... so... POSITIVE VIBES people...Gotta run...
OH... AND MY BAIL OUT SALE CONTINUES...
Check out the SHOP.(click on Shop)

HOW DO YA LIKE ME NOW????

BIG BIG BIG TEMPORARY "BAIL OUT" SALE
CURRENTLY IN MY ETSY SHOP:




















HOW DO YA LIKE ME NOW????
THIS IS A TEMPORARY SALE PRICE reflecting 10-20% off the Original Price of MANY items!
I am experimenting with this pricing and do not plan on leaving these prices alone.
So if you are interested, buy now... I am trying to personally jump start the economy!
The New President can thank me later!

You must check out my latest item for the MAN of the YEAR:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15839734

Firing

Well.. I'm glaze firing those teapots in my kiln now...
The above photo is of a brand new version of my kiln...
I'm too tired to go up to the studio to take a real photo of it...
I replaced all of the elements but the top one and the bisque firing worked fine...
So I am doing the glaze fire the same way... I will then replace the top element at a later point..

This morning I had this sharp sore feeling in the same place of both sides of my rib cage and thought something was wrong... Then it dawned on me..
It was from hanging into my kiln replacing those elements...
Who would have thunk it when you decide to get more and more involved with clay... You need to be creative artist, a craftsman, a cleaning lady, a plumber(sink trap) an electrician(kiln and wheel repair),a continual student,researcher,a chemist(making glazes),a weightlifter(those buckets of scrap and new boxes of clay), a marketer, a merchandizer,a camper(tent/booth set up),business person, math wiz, accountant,computer genius,gymnast(teetering on the outside edge of my kiln replacing the inside element head first)
Oh... I am sure there is more...
Frankly it's exhausting just typing about it...

When I was a fashion and print designer I took on alot of roles but...
I gotta tell ya... this is never ending... and I made decent money THEN!!!!
Good think I love this!
Addiction. It' not pretty.

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK:

Teapots in the Process

I just couldn't look at that last post!!!
Here is my focus now...
TEAPOTS... for an Invitational Teapot Show
in Steamboat, Colorado in December/January
AND
to apply to some Teapot Shows...
Scary rejection possibility stuff...
EEK!

You win some... You lose some..

Ok... the show stunk.

The other artisans didn't ...they were great.

The turnout was down 25% and it felt like people would look around like it was a museum... 

Flattering... but unfortunately not very lucrative... 

It didn't help that all that the T.V. and radio was talking about was the Bail-Out nightmare and it POURED...

I thank anyone who bought from me... 

You do not stink... really... the people don't stink...but the whole scenario stunk.

Stink stank stunk.... 

On a brighter note... the PALS Carnival that my kids totally rocked(and I helped ahead of time) for a support group of ALS patients and ALS research was an unbelievable SUCCESS....

Just sad I could not  be there... We had such great P.R. about my friend Pam.

But... I am moving forward...

See my new Trunk Portfolio...all jazzed up:

Nice?
I have posted some new items... all available through etsy!!!

Let's hope it's a "Big Big Show!"

I set up my booth in the yard...
the tent, the lighting, the shelving, the tables and cloth,s and
the GOODS... Only had 2 CASUALTIES in the bunch... ick...
moving right along...
I am really feeling sick so, I will try to get sleep... very tired...
but... I am please with the booth AND the colors on the pieces look even better in real life...
so come see:

Peters Valley Annual Craft Fair

& Bluegrass Festival

September 27 & 28, 2008

at the Sussex County
State Fairgrounds
Augusta,, NJ

Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

Tickets: $7 (under 12 FREE)
Sorry, no pets.

Home Stretch

I know this is a little repetetitve of the last post... but the shelves are a bit more congested now and and have one last bisque fire in now and a final glaze fire  after that....

So...there you go.

Still workiing

Here we go... some pics of what I've been up to and am still up to...

exhausted

this is me.
tired as I look at the screen...
this is how my computer usually sees me.
nice.
right?
catching up...
cranking for the Peters Valley Craft show on Sept 27th and 28th...
did I work out today?
no.
i did not.

UH OH

Ben Stark just Tagged me!!!

Ok, so here is my tagging thing. Enjoy!

Here are the rules of tagging:

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog. (this is what you're now reading.)
3. Write 6 random things about yourself (see below).
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them. (This is only a game.)
5. Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.

Six random things about myself:

1. I love to eat sea urchin sushi.
2. I was the head fashion and textile designer of Lilly Pulitzer in my old career.
3. I was very into acting and singing as a child and did dinner theatre as Marta in the Sound of Music!
4. I believe in past and future lives.
5. I have been married for almost 15 years to a guy who has been obsessed with kiteboarding for the past year... and wake boarding, and snow boarding...
6. I make a mean sweet noodle kuggel....


I am tagging the following.

whitney smith
cynthia guajardo
patricia griffin
jen wolfe
amy esther
jessica sharrah

PETERS VALLEY CRAFT SHOW

Coming up  September 27th and 28th!!!!!

MY WORK!!!!!

at the

Peters Valley Craft Show...

A fun weekend DAY TRIP!!!!!

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!!!!

Great kids activities too!

and...

A BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL!!!

Click on the title for the link!!!!

Now I'm Cookin'...

Beginning to get some quantity developed to bring to Peters Valley in September... 

Throwing, carving etc...
Big glaze experiment plans but just moving along with this currently...
because my time is going to be cut up!!!
Excited to say I will be taking Kristen Keiffer's Workshop
August 1-3rd
at Greenwich House Pottery in NYC...
so it will cut in...but hopefully in a good way...
and then the big 4-0 birthday trip...August 5th- 10th... San francisco and Carmel....Also exciting but..
.more time away not working and then
at the end of August I'm taking my boys to Girdle Tree, Md for their annual visit with my dad...
this time I will be accompanying them..
I plan to drag some handbuilding supplies with me...
you never know...
Wish me luck!

Gallery on Grant Reception: Thursday, July 17th 2008

Monday, July 7th my work is going into an exhibit that is being set at the
JCC of Greater Monmouth County
100 Grant Ave., Deal Park, NJ 07723
Its a $500 and Under Exhibit
It will run until August 7th
Artists showing:
Nanci Hersh, Karen Belfer, Claire Boren, Arleen Mollow, Anthony Migliaccio, Judi Tavill, Judy Mamiye, Sandra Kund, and,Joyce Spalandorff

Opening Reception:
Thurs. July 17 / 6:30-8 pm

It is prior to the Jeff Blumenkrantz concert at 8 pm:
This award winning actor/composer acted in or composed numerous Broadway productions, including Urban Cowboy, A Class Act, How to Succeed in Business, Damn Yankees & Into the Woods.
Jeff's film & TV acting credits include Dear Diary, Anastasia, Will and Grace, Law and Order and Conviction. Jeff received a 2003 Tony nomination for songs he contributed to the score of Urban Cowboy.

732-531-9100 ext. 142
Tickets: Adult $25, Senior/Student $20

Here are some examples of my work in the show: