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Two Butter Dishes
Butter dish A is a deeper blue.Butter dish B has a side ruffle.The owner of Attrezzi, a kitchen goods store in Portsmouth, NH, contacted me recently to replace a butter dish a customer bought there some time ago and later broke. I am not taking custo...
I Guess I Never Learn
Remember last winter when I was all excited about the possibilities of Etsy? Well, I promoted my butt off, re-listed often, endlessly improved my photos and re-wrote my listings and...nothing. I eventually got disgusted and just let all my listings e...
Life is Short.
Overdress for it! I wore a red feather boa to last night's Portland Pottery Holiday Party, because where else are you gonna wear a red feather boa? I actually had a choice of boas - I own a black one, too - but red went better with my dress. The pla...
Pick of the Litter
Sometimes the kiln gods really do me a favor.I rarely keep my own pieces. I want to sell them, of course, and I get satisfaction out of knowing they are out in the world, nudging the quality of someone's life ever-so-slightly in the positive directio...
Camped Out Kilnside
Thursday was a late night by the kiln, due to the car fuckery that prevented me from candling. But it was unseasonably warm, and I know how to make myself comfortable during the long wait between 05 & cone 8. The book is A Prayer for Owen Meany,...
Finally A Firing!!
For real this time! And, yes, I did fire both kilns at the same time. It got only slightly hairy when it came time to put them into body reduction, as the kilns are located about a quarter mile away from each other, so I was jogging back and forth t...
