Monthly Archives: May 2013

New pots for the sale THIS weekend in Athens Ga

So, my kiln has been limping along, and I’ve been pushing load after load of new pots through as fast as I can. In fact, the kiln just tripped the breaker moments ago, so I may not get another firing … Continue reading

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The Dangerous Inspiration of Icons

I think its probably human nature that we have people in our lives that set examples for us. We are inspired by the lives they lead and do our best to emulate or imitate that model. And because we need … Continue reading

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Brainpickings revisits the 1990 commencement address of Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson

Brainpickings continues to be my favorite blog for disseminating and dissecting important creative ideas. Here is one of today’s posts in its entirety (make sure to follow the spiderwebbing trails of links in the article): May 20, 1990: Advice on … Continue reading

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Sticks and a stone, some tape, and water…..

Talk about solving problems with band aides! Here’s a close up of that magnificent repair job. Please notice the chunk of rock lodged between the bottom and middle plugs. Short of another stick this was the only immediate way I … Continue reading

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My timely and much needed lesson in aspirations…..

So, as you may have gathered from the previous post I have been fending off a bout of hysteria that the lesser of my main two selling opportunities of the year was about to seriously tank due to a kiln … Continue reading

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The gods are cruel…..

Its times like these that I could get me some old fashioned religion. I mean ‘old’ as in some version of what the ancients believed in, just hooked up to modern appliances. Most electrical things are beyond my comprehension. I … Continue reading

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Go greenware or go….

I suppose I am still a potter, after all…. With the Spring/Summer pottery sales coming up shortly (A month? YIKES!!), I have been working like mad in the studio. Mad that I’m only now catching up, that is…. I think … Continue reading

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