finely, inc.

is a lovely design/decor blog maintained by greece-based sophia diamantopoulou. her latest post on tea culture features one of my tea sets as well as beautiful teapots by dalhaus, happylake and a piece by denise, and a bird themed cream and sugar set from anthropologie. thanks sophia! check out "let's talk about tea" here.

nothing whatsoever to do with clay, but very cool

from the documentary, "playing for change: peace through music"

"stand by me" sung around the world

as promised

here are the finished boxes and a few smaller ones.

something you don't see every day

my friend jan invited me to a pit firing next weekend. i've never done one before, but jan says you can get some great effects using dried cow pies in the fuel mix. i promised to pick some up at my sister's since she has cattle. but it's been raining like crazy here, so even the dry ones were wet. here they are on the hood of my car baking in the sun.

first bloom

is a the theme of a show and sale i'll be involved with at the end of april.

as part of the event, a group of artists are collaborating on a wall hanging made up of individual fabric squares put together like a quilt. some of the the squares will be used directly as a canvas for painting, silk screening or similar techniques, while others will have transparent "pockets" to hold 3d work. this 6"x6" tile is my contribution.

spring is near

and i've been a busy little bee already. the studio is starting to fill up with work (!), some old forms and some new, like these lidded boxes. these are still in the raw clay stage. they'll get underglaze pencil decoration after bisqueing and overglaze decals after glazing. i'll try to remember to post them again when they are finished.

pass it on

petition president obama to appoint a secretary of the arts.
http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html

oh, yes, pass on the love, too.

happy valentines day!