new canvas

on the old homemade slab roller...life is good.

the mercantile

w.w. treenware is now set up as a general store selling produce, freshly-baked bread, eggs, pecans and preserves in addition to handcarved wooden utensils, handmade pottery and other house and kitchen wares. my work is in the window this month, nestled in little wooden boxes on beds of cedar shavings. thanks, nancy lou!

no excuses

i'm just a crappy blogger. here's an experimental plate and mug combo made using printmaking techniques.

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.