The Queen Conch

Again with the Caribbean theme? I guess so!

I’ve been searching for this mold since I started dabbling in slip casting in 2020. I found it once, but it was packaged badly and arrived in pieces. I finally found it again with some help on eBay, and here she is! A little bit of a learning curve to the pouring and releasing, but SO beautiful!

What to do with a conch? I’ll probably make it into an instrument, I do plan to stick things on it like miniature cherubs and the new (antique) lizard below. It’s designed to be a planter as well as a soup tureen (I have to find the lid mold next), so I’m guessing Her Royal Highness will have many functions.

Fun fact: The queen conch is the only conch that makes pearls, and beautiful pink ones at that (the reason for the last picture - it’s actually a doll eyeball mold, but today it’s conch pearls). It’s the largest of the conch family and also endangered. So no real conches shall be harmed in this endeavor!

Old & New

I’ve just added a small handful of new molds to my antique collection. The main additions to my shop repertoire will be coffee mugs and wine goblets. You tell me often that I need more mugs, and I’m really excited to add more slipcasting technique to the process. I’ll have two sizes of mugs, and they’ll definitely be unique!

I also found a fun new vessel shape that I’ll be attaching to an antique base to make wine glasses. It’s the same base I’ve been using on the baby head wine glasses while I was waiting for the goblet tops to ship.

The butterfly is just an antique soap dish. Or ashtray. There are a LOT of old ashtray molds out there. Slip casting was popular during the smoking era. I call them “cat dishes” now.

“Thing” is a new mold, thanks to the popularity of Wednesday, (and officially called a “zombie hand” by the mold maker) and I’ll make most of them into succulent planters, because how fun is that! Interestingly, it’s the worst mold I’ve ever worked with, but totally worth it.

And the antique frog? Well it really has no purpose other than I absolutely love it. It just sits there. I can’t help but pour it any time I’m making other stuff. It’s hard to find bigger molds of, well, most objects. This one will fire about the size of a bullfrog. I also have a couple of box turtles that will be life-sized. Even the mugs are hard to find large enough to be of use. The bigger one I’m doing is one I had to make myself. Making plaster molds is another whole process that I avoid when I can.

It’s hard to see at this stage but I added some blue slip to the black and white marbling. I can’t wait to see the final color when it fires.

New mug bodies

Antique frog mold. It’ll be glazed nice and glossy. And/or blue. The eclipse shadows were just starting to change the afternoon light in this picture.

A one-of-a-kind planter. There’s a doll-head in the back. (I had an extra one and had to attach it to SOMEthing).

You can see the turquoise blue clay in the marbling of the frog. As I worked on these during the light of the eclipse, it got cool and the mourning doves sang.

Slow drying in the kiln room. It’s getting crowded. I’ll start loading tomorrow.

A couple of planters and larger mugs slow drying under plastic.

Extra slip gets drained from the mug molds into home-made tile molds for unique designs.

Slip casting requires a lot of finesse and finishing work. And space. I went through ten gallons of slip on this round. Fortunately I ran out until I make more, which is good because I have no more room.

Antique cherub mold in the back. Not entirely sure when I’ll stick on top of it yet.

Beautiful Things

I wanted to come up with a clever April Fools joke, but I’m not quite caffeinated enough.

As you know, during the Pandemic shutdown, I added slip casting to my bag of tricks. It’s messy and space consuming, so I needed the break to figure it out, and currently I only do it during studio teaching breaks when I can spread out. I had originally grabbed the baby heads off of eBay to experiment with pouring molds and to see how good ones were constructed. We’re also in stone’s throw of the Brimfield Flea Market, and at the time, weird baby head art was in vogue. So why not?

The pandemic lasted a while, and so I bought more antique molds and had some fun combining them before I had to beat everything back onto shelving to make room for normal studio operation. However… during my travels online, I ran across a mold that looked really fun, but wasn’t available. Since then, every few months or so, I hit the used markets to try to find this mold. So far I’ve had no luck, BUT… because algorithms are what they are, they keep popping cool other molds into my searches. As a result, I’ve grabbed some very unique things!

I feel the need to periodically point out that I really love beautiful things! The quirky ones are just some extra candy to toss in on top. Along with the body parts, I’m also pouring some elegant mugs and wine goblets using the swirly marbled slip. I found an exceptional mold maker (in Croatia, of all places. The US really isn’t into slip casting as much as other continents, I’ve found.) and have some more being shipped now. And how about those antique butterfly soap dishes?

More to come!

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Wine goblets and some little mugs

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The very elusive mold I’m looking for! The mold company is Atlantic if anyone has the time and energy to add to my searching! I did find one once but it was packaged so badly it arrived damaged. :(

Art is Messy

Figuratively? For me it’s literally. I don’t like the mess, but haven’t found a way to skip Phase 2 and get right to Phase 3: Having great stuff!

We had a great season. Main Street continues to grow and tourism is growing along with it. I was cleaned out this Spring, so I’ve been ramping up new things in the studio to replenish the shop. We also have more of our long-time students selling their work in the shop, so you get more variety of style and they get to sell their beautiful work.

Along with that, Stafford Springs is becoming known as an arts town, and this couldn’t make me happier. Art in general continues to grow and be reflected in our Main Street businesses. We have new art in and around the shops, beautiful new plantings in the parks, and some really funky & unique new shops. As our old mill buildings get renovated, the business owners have been leaning toward fabulously eclectic and artistic makeovers while still preserving the integrity of the original historic structures. So cool.

I personally have been doing a little more busy work, partly to give my body a break from the physical jungle gym that is a pottery, but also to hang out in the coffee shop each morning to absorb lattes and meet new people in town. Some of you know that I work a second job that predates pottery, and because I love so many genres of art (or because I’m batshit crazy), I don’t ever want to give up anything art-related. So I still love working as a symphony musician at night while running the pottery during the day. Over coffee in the mornings this past season, I’ve been arranging music for my instrument.

As I do this, I’ve been thinking about how similar all art processes are. An initial idea becomes a raging pile of mess and slowly emerges into a final form. I tend to work in washes: I get a general shape and then refine, refine, refine, until I’m absolutely happy with the final result. And then do the next one. I still don’t like the messy part, and in an ideal world, I’d skip it entirely and just have magic instantly flow out of my brain while I suck lattes and do nothing. O’ to do nothing!

Never thought I’d actualize this side project (not to mention the stuff I studied in grad school). You just never know what the future holds.

Dana

My attic is the land of unfinished (that is, unimportant) projects: Furniture waiting to be painted, table tops waiting to be tiled, those kinds of things. To my credit I do get to them and get a lot of things done, but they need to be back burner to everything else. Can we have another non-plague four-month shutdown?

But me being me, part of which is a champion road hunter, I’ve chosen to make it look cool in all its unfinished project glory. Old rugs, old scrap boards, painted crap, blah blah blah.

But why? As I was moving this junk around this week, it occurred to me that I have roots in this B.S. Growing up, one of my best friends was a neighborhood boy named Dana. His mom was my mom’s best friend, his sister was friends with my brother and sister, but Dana was closest to my age. He lived on a large chunk of land in the woods, and our greatest fun was roaming for abandoned shacks and small garbage dumps and pilfering anything cool. We’d drag it back to his old barn, and we systematically took over the barn’s entire loft and made it into an imaginary apartment. We’d pretend to be a really old couple (George and Martha, of course), hard of hearing and would shout at each other from our rockers.

Dana passed young, at 30, (but had realized his dream of becoming a veterinarian), so I can’t share this odd reversion to childhood with him. But here’s to Candy the Palimino and Fernando the Lama’s barn loft and apartment to George and Martha.

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Fun Facts About Teri!

September is my favorite month! I mean, it’s the beginning of Fall in New England, so duh, there’s that. I’m not a big fan of the heat, so when the weather breaks in late August and the first crisp days come, I am in my glory. Along with the fresh air, the quality of color is what really takes my breath away. Everything is still green and blue and gold with deep shadows… And I know I’ll have up to two months of this visual joy.

And with the fresh breeze, September is always a time of new beginnings. What used to mark a new school year adventure still brings that scent of change for me. My new orchestra schedule has come out (Next fun fact: I also work part time as an orchestral clarinet player); I have new class ideas and art project ideas and renovation ideas…

And particularly poignant as we emerge from accepting the new normal of managing the Pandemic, this season we are excitedly invigorating and transforming community events that were on hold for close to three years.

Our town Arts Commission has bolted out of the gate with an energetic new team that I am proud and humbled to be a part of. We’ll be coordinating with existing town events, including Arts on Main. How cool is that? Arts on Main has new energy and has been bringing back live music in the park and community participation events.

Which brings up our next fun fact: Stafford is full of artists, and I’ve had the pleasure of crossing paths with a good number of them since I’ve been here. This month, I will be bringing back hosting fine art on my fine brick walls with one of my favorite painters, Laura Kinlock. Her ability to capture golden hour light in oils and pastels is breathtaking. I am hanging her work this week, and we will be having an artist reception during Arts on Main Friday September 9th 6 to 8PM. I’ll also might have another fun fact secret hobby for you during the artist reception.

So, enjoy the cool days with me, come hang out for Arts on Main, visit on other days and we’ll sit around and have coffee. Last fun fact: I like coffee.

Oh wait, one more… September is also harvest season, and I while I love to eat, I also like to make wine with whatever goodness I’ve gotten my hands on. I have four new jugs brewing in my basement now. I’m running out of room, so we’ll have to find something to do with some of it.

Back to Community!

People are creative!

As I thought about the final color placement for the building trim, I decided to ask the community on social media for their thoughts as well. WELL. A couple of ideas popped up that were just fabulous and I’ve been mulling the details ever since. One thing led to another and another and another.

I’m going to be a little cryptic and not say much for now, because I like surprises, but we’ll be doing this in stages. Stage 1: I’m making a fun clay escutcheon for the freshly painted door. I’ve also scoured eBay for some little mailbox doodads for the entryway. Stage 2: My students and I are working on some secret details also for the entryway. Stage 3: The Community will be involved in an iteration of our Community Tile Project. Custom 3D printed cookie cutters are being involved. (And I’m checking tracking numbers daily:D

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Clay is fun

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May or may not have to tweak this design for functionality. It’s my first escutcheon.

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Working a few sunflowers into our theme as a moment in history

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Game Changer!!!

Spring Cleaning!

Our Spring session has begun!

During break I enjoyed playing with the building a little, as is my way. I repaired another small wall in front of our lounge. We’re also going to add back a screen door to the main shop, which meant I finally had to settle on our building colors in order to paint the door before it goes up. (I’ll also be getting some painting quotes for the building facade shortly. Yay!!:).

Also during break I cooked our Fall pumpkin decoration, but for a fun twist, I decided to ferment it rather than make soup. If all goes well, we’ll have a fun wine in about a year and a half. :)

We started our new class session this week, which meant I braved our new kiln shelves and pounded out a couple of big firings of last session’s work. I’ll need to tweak the process a little, but the shelves worked out great. My prototype wine bottles are lovely, though I need to change the neck diameter to get them to fit standard wine corks. My goal is to bottle my own wine in home-made wine bottles. (For fun, not to sell). Fortunately for everyone else, I will be selling the prototypes for you to use as oil pourers, wine decanters, or whatever suits your fancy. :) The clay pipes turned out great, and I’m going to have a couple of friends test them out so I can give an honest report on how they actually work.

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A rough sketch of new colors!

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Wine bottle prototypes!

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The Decoration

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Simmering the pumpkin to make wine.

I painted the two shop doors but had to stop - too hard on my wrists. I have limits. :(

Lighter Later

We finally replaced the last lingering boarded-up window of the building. It’s been on the list since the beginning, but we were a victim of supply-chain delays, and my own six-year prioritizing. But it’s in now and the light coming up the stairwell in the mornings still catches me by surprise. Now that it’s done, I’ll get back to tiling that wall it shows off…

This season was crazy busy! My very prolific class session ended before December, but December was mostly taken up with kiln loading and shop customers. As always, we thank you so much for your continuing support of small business during the holiday season!

This last week I’ve been working on getting the studio ready for the next session. As COVID is on the rise again, I’m going back to clearing out as much space as possible and putting back the extra sanitizing measures.

Let’s collectively cross our fingers and hope that all goes well. Also, please get vaccinated.

A Hopeful Fall

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As this beautiful Fall season lingers, our hope for a better year strengthens. Returning customers are coming in with sincere relief that we made it through the pandemic and are still in business.

Our current class session is underway with our core group of regulars along with some energetic new beginners. We’re operating as a fully vaccinated studio in a region that is doing well overall. For that we are grateful.

We’ll also be branching back to community arts this year, bringing back some of our own in-shop events and planning for some bigger outdoor venues. By the way, if you’re local, please vote in our town elections: I’ve had a very encouraging conversation about the town supporting Main Street events in our parks again. Community is important and we WANT to bring you good things!

For our part, this week we’ll be hosting our impromptu Open Chamber Rehearsal Series with a fun daytime recorder trio (Thursday 10/28 2-5pm). Please stop in and enjoy!

Summer Break

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Thoroughly spoiled by farmers market bakery cookies. I have to find a winter fix now.

Well, end of summer anyway. September is a break month. And also my favorite month of the year. :) Good weather, refreshing days.

What am I working on?

Pottery for starters. I have a bunch o’ stuff I need to finish glazing, and then I will be running the glaze kiln with that and the end-of-session studio pots. So, much goodness coming soon.

Studio accoutrements: We’re trading out some studio space by phasing out one of our clays and adding a cool new damp-box, which is just a fancy way of saving a small percentage of over-dry clay projects. I bought a new retro refrigerator for our lounge so I will be converting the old mini-fridge into my own damp-box. (I work with a sort of small-production style that gets limited by how much space I can store each phase of the project, and have been frustrated with over-flowing damp boxes).

Sprucing up another wall: Because physical labor renews my psyche.

Making wine: Because wine

Tie dyeing: Because it’s fun

Getting in shape for my other job: Because we might have our season this year

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I keep a secret hidden stash (in a damp box) of little critters ready to stick on pots that seem to need them.

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A mild mystery why a glaze I use changed formulas, but I don’t mind the shinier version at all.

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Dropped Babies: Well, only one was actually dropped, the others just dried too fast and lost their handles or eyeballs. I can’t sell the repaired ones, so ALAS! I have to keep them. :)

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On my to-do list for quite some time: Trying some new stain colors for the marbled clay vessels. Everything about clay is messy…

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This is a home hobby, and NOT a part of our business, so if a bottle shows up after-hours, it is coincidental and part of my lunch bag from home. De Chaunac is a French-American northern grape variety and my first wine-vine to wine.

Tiles: the Next Generation

The List, she is long.

So, we’re back in session, currently unmasked with a fully vaccinated studio. We have a great bunch of new students as well as our returning family. We’re running at full capacity, but still maintaining our small studio status. The weather has been terrible, but our AC is keeping up and our great lighting always keeps the studio cheery.

I’ve been slowly assembling my last batch of slip poured pot parts and, as always, getting to projects on my long list. We installed the gallery front step with this year’s community and slip-poured tiles. More on that here! Once the tiles were laid out for the step, I started gluing the rest to our studio stairwell wall. This wall will have many of our student-made tiles from over the years as well as more of the community tiles. I also inadvertently left a couple of tiles for future archeologists through a crack in the wall. Oh well. I tried a reacher-grabber tool but couldn’t quite fit it in there and I’m not about to take apart the wall for two tiles. If someone has a better idea, have at it. I can offer gratitude and espresso.

In the meantime, I’m out of a couple of important colors for the scheme AND blank tiles for the community painting kit, so I’ll be working on that this month, along with some pretty pottery to fill out the shop. Christmas is coming! I’m also happy to be on the wheel alongside students who are scheduling private lessons. It’s a fun format and I like the chance to explore whatever forms they happen to be working on. For anyone keeping track, I tend to not spend too much time on the wheel at any one time - I’ve had a fussy back from an old injury for a while now, so varied tasks are my ticket to keeping it happy. Slip pouring mixed with hand building and wheel throwing (and building maintenance) and just plain sitting around kvetching keep everything in balance. Never underestimate a good kvetch.

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So fun! We can use more of the funkier tiles here.

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I love that we captured time here. A lot of happy suns and hearts were painted on sunny pandemic afternoons

Post Pandemic

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5.5 ounces to a small head. Who knew?

So if you’ve been hanging out with us, and still are now that the world is opening back up, you know that this past year was a peripheral project finishing year. I worked on necessary projects, I did some fun ones on my wish list, and basically caught up on everything. This summer (right now) I am getting to some long-necessary maintenance and am having all of the brickwork on the building finally re-pointed. (It took me a while to find a good brick guy who was affordable).

With other social venues now available for our studio members (and me), this month I am returning to my former schedule of two-months-on for classes, one-month-off for me to work uninterrupted. Not that I look on the studio as an interruption: Far from it! I enjoy it immensely and it’s always difficult to force myself to take the time off. BUT I find this time absolutely necessary for my brain to reset, re-evaluate, and above all, re-invigorate. Right now in particular, I am mentally fatigued from the endless studio safety regimen of cleaning, spacing, masking, etc. When we return in July, we’ll be operating as a fully vaccinated studio and can start to relax a little.

So now as Al the Brick Guy works outside (His title for himself and as I have him listed in my phone contacts), I’m getting ready to make things! What, you ask? Well what do you think?

I will be continuing my journey into slip cast beauty and slip cast fun. You crazy people have been buying the baby heads (and the pretty mugs!) so that will be the first thing on the list. I decided as I work that I would stream old Star Trek series, because you may have noticed the Borg influence on the mugs… And I’ve watched just about everything else this past year.

Also, eBay keeps listing more of these vintage chachkies molds. I just ordered some frogs.

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New this round will be a couple of (normal) salt and pepper shakers and a new baby planter base

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The nightlight is particularly horrific

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This former “renovation” is FINALLY gone! Along with its wasp collection. I saved one small mud dauber nest to fire (potters fire everything).

Sooo clean! (Gutters and that last boarded-up window are in the works). The window sash are for when the train sprays herbicide for track maintenance. Our fig trees are LOADED with figs.

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(A little reminder of where we started)

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I went old-school (cheap) on the sign! I had the bracket, wood, and paint in the attic

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Less formal, more fun

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And a new rain barrel to replace the old leaky one

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It my have taken two tries on the height… Trains are big and I have no depth perception.

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The balls are old birdhouses cleaned, spray painted, and Lucased. #lucasprints

Pandemic Final Exam

First off, it’s kiln cooling day, which means I feel like I’m working when I’m actually not, so I think I have time to write blog posts.

Second, while we’re still being very safe, we’re up and running full guns. The studio is at capacity (even with class Covid limits) and the street shoppers have emerged and are buying pottery.

Which means my year long pandemic projects need to culminate. Or at least they need to become a slow trickle.

The basement walls are finished (for now) and the tools have been beaten back into their closet, and the furniture is all back in place giving us new room on the lounge side of the basement. The two little windows I added for fun make things a little more interesting visually.

My self-taught slip pouring project gave us a ton of new fancy tiles, and while I haven’t gotten around to pouring any two-part molds, I did happen to come across some weirdly interesting antique molds on eBay and thought that would be a good next step to empirically learning what makes a two part mold functionally good or bad. And because eBay is eBay, and 1AM shopping is never good, I decided to take a fun path and turn a secret ambition into a pottery form. I love steampunk, but I absolutely can NOT add another tool-collecting, stuff-collecting activity to my space. So some of the old pottery molds looked like they’d be fun to re-purpose into forms they weren’t intended for, lending a steampunk-ish feel to the results.

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I wish I were the only artist to think of this, but I’m hoping to add enough ESP style to make these uniquely ours.

My self-imposed rule is that I need to make two beautiful objects for every one weird form.

All of these molds are antiques from when porcelain chachkies were popular, and this vintage eyeball mold could NOT be passed up.

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The repaired, cleaned up basement

An Historical Journey

While poking around some picture files while on break last month, I happened to notice I had a version of this particular photo that had a clearer resolution than other versions of the same photo. On zooming in, I noticed that for the first time I could read some of the signs on our building. Prior to this the oldest information I could find was a 1992 map. This photo above was from 1888, just three years after the Middle Ground and our buildings were built, so it was very likely that the signs were the first stores that occupied this space.

We now had enough keywords to start searching, and as most historical digging does, one lead led to another and another, and soon we were able to piece together much of the early history of our space.

I spent the better part of the month compiling these details into a coherent and hopefully interesting format. The Library of Congress had articles from The Press of Stafford Springs up to about 1920. We have some information after that, but with enough gaps that I’m going to have to spend some time in the Stafford Historical Society museum to piece it all together. I’m waiting until I’m able to do that safely (yay science!), but also my month off is up and we need to focus on making things out of clay again for a little while.

Also the reason I came across the picture is that I was very self-indulgently compiling all of the photographs of our own renovation, now that it’s been over five years and I’m losing track of those picture files. That too, leads me to another roadblock that I will attack after vaccination and when I have time. (It involves dragging devices to the Apple Geniuses and recovering lost photos… after only five years. Boo science!)

But I got a good start on both of these picture histories. Feel free to take a look at the links at the bottom of our About page or click here and here.

I’m hoping that I’ll start to be too busy living life in my free time to spend giant chunks of time on these side projects, but I am also grateful for having had the forced solitude to do them. I’ve also reclaimed my clay creativity more than any time since opening the shop, and I feel I’ve reached a level of organization and flow with the studio that will allow me to continue on this path. This particular season I have some new clay to experiment with, and some more slip casting ideas… :)

I like squares

Potters take a while to recognize their own style, and often others will know your work before you realize you have any distinction. I recognize a lot of my own style: Shapes, surface treatment, texture, contrast, balance… however I just realized today that I like art with a lot of little squares in it. I always have. And apparently I’ve been sneaking it into pottery for fifteen years.

Many obvious squares

Note the texture in the center tike: teeny squares

Texture choice of little squares

Little square chachkies

Squares squared

Just showing off now

Photo bomb @godsoftheattic

Pottery for Pickup!

We’re trying something new!

In our ongoing effort to keep everyone safe, I wanted to reach those of you who need more distance, especially as the weather gets colder and more activities move indoors.

Throughout the season, I will feature a variety of pots in our big East window with links to purchase them safely on our website (with credit card or PayPal), with contactless sanitized pickup.

All you’ll need to do is scan the code in the window with your smartphone or just go to esp-pottery.com/shop from your computer at home, buy the pot you liked, and then text or call me to arrange a pickup time. I’ll bring your pot in a clean bag out to the steps as soon as you arrive.

If there’s anything you see deeper in the shop that I don’t have in our little featured window collection, don’t hesitate to let me know, and I’ll be happy to add it! (It’s very easy for me to do).

I’m looking forward to seeing how this works for you!

Community Tile Next Installation!

Did you miss the first one??

Starting right now, we will have a Distancing-Friendly tile station outside in nice weather during shop hours. If the space is free, sit, relax, and paint a tile for the studio. :)

If you scroll down a couple posts and see our fancy bathroom, this is what we’re talking about. For fun, we’ve been doing a community project, starting at our Grand Opening and continuing the next few years, making community and student tiles to slowly install around the building (and one day around town?).

I’ve been eyeing up our studio stairwell wall for a while now, and just had it trimmed so we can start the next tile wall!

I have a few tiles left from the bathroom, so if you haven’t seen yours there, have no fear: They’ll make it into this next project.

If you MISSED making something for that project, come on by and make some tiles! If you’re an ESP studio member, you know what to do. If you’re part of the community, the blank tiles for the “come and paint” station will be right outside the shop.

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Our next installation

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Five Years!

I had been hoping to have a big ol’ party to celebrate our fifth anniversary, but that will have to wait.

In the meantime, I thought we’d just do what we do best: Make and sell pottery! I’d like to offer a ten percent discount on all of our pottery through the end of September. Just mention our five year anniversary when you come in!

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A big party! Looking forward to more

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I had a week before the renovation team arrived, and as I sat there painting my furniture (and wondering if the bugs biting me were from the carpet or the river), I thought, “Hmm… I wonder if we could expose the bricks on that wall…” Also, note the dropped ceiling.

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It was smelly.

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A big renovation! (and always looking forward to more). Please note the exposed black beadboard and DJ window from its very short stint as a strip club.

The ESP Studio & Markets

The Stafford Area Farmers & Crafters Market will be hosting the ESP Studio!

Our very accomplished studio members will be there every other Sunday starting 8/23! This first week we will have the beautiful work of Christine Raymond and Randi Krogstad. For ongoing updates, please visit ESP Pottery on Facebook.

ALSO! This summer you’ll start to see some of our studio members’ work featured in our shop. This summer (so far) we have some GORgeous mugs by Randi Krogstad.

Please stop by and support our students!! They work hard and you love good pottery. :)

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Randi Krogstad mugs