The NCMA-Museum Store, Great Advertising!

Here is the new ad for the NCMA-Museum Store. There's some great pots in the ad and in the store! Don't you think? The little botle on the left is mine they also carry many of my larger pots. Great shop, great people, and a great Museum!

Ceramics Now feature

I Was just featured in Ceramics Now! An online ceramics magazine that celebrates the creative field of ceramics around the world by featuring world-recognized ceramic artists. Check it out! Great to have my work on this sight with many other amazing artists.!

Thought for the day

Its raining here in Seagrove North Carolina, I can hear the rain dancing on my tin roof I love that sound! So I have all kinds of thoughts in my head, Im always thinking sometimes maybe too much but to day I want to share someone else's thought,

"Why be a potter? Pots can be used, they have a function. Even a bad pot has some use, But a bad painting, there is nothing to you can do except throw it away"
-Hamada

I mostly agree with Hamada on this and it makes me smile too when I read it. But some bad pots should be thrown away too I know I have thrown away many in my early years if you don't they will come back and haunt you! Trust me on this one!! I found one on ebay from one of the first years I started making pots, It hurt to see it too, I hope someone took in that ugly duckling and ether loved it or put it out of its misery.
I Still throw away pots that I never want to see again, and it feels good letting go of them too. Even knowing all the work that went into some of them I know that some times they just miss the mark.
Well here's a great pot from one of my last salt glaze firings that I kept to get an image of, I'll have a hard time letting go of this one!

Five Years Ago

Things have been moving right along here at the shop still making pots firing some bisque ware starting on glazing later in the week.
I was thinking the other day of the many things that I am grateful for, well of course my son Judson is at the top of the list. Then I thought I haven't talked about him here on the blog in some time. He's turning five on march 11th, its amazing how fast he has grown from that little baby in the bowl, that was his birth announcement. To the big kid he his today.
He has a fresh way of looking at the world that changed my way of thinking, he helped me back get to my core sense of self, kids have a way of doing that. He's smart and so curious, Painting is one of his favorite things to do, he's always wanting to know how things work and making inventions, I did things like that when I was a kid and still do. He's always thinking never letting anything get in his way when it comes to creating, thinking freely honestly and intensely focused in whatever he dose. Its a great way to live life and create. I've always tied to live my live and work in this way but at times life gets in the way. I'm getting back there with him I'm so, grateful to have him in my life And cant remember what this world was like before he came into it.

Want to share a link? -part two

Thanks to every one that ether link me to their blog roll or let me know that I already was. I added everyone that responded and updated a few too. If anyone else out there wants to share a link let me know. I want to try to keep it clay related but sometimes add things that just interest me I also hope you blog regularly you know like at least once a month, I like to keep the links interesting. I also have to admit I totally stole this whole link exchange post from The Rabbit Muse -AKA NANCY E. SCHINDLER
Nancy, I hope your not too pissed off at me. I know how you hate it when folks rip you off if you! But at least I give you credit for a great idea if the means anything?

Want to share a link?

I working on my blog and am delating folks that don't link back to me or haven't blogged in some time. Some are over a year, I want to keep my list current.
So if you have a link on your blog to me please let me know and I will gladly add a link back to you. If you would like to Share a link let me know and I'll add you if you add me. ;-)
Lets get some linking going on!

Some new tiles I've been working on

Things around here at the shop are moving a little slow, had a bit of a cold last week feeling much better now. Im still working on dinnerware that I should have fired last week but I just couldn't get it finished the way I felt, so shooting for next week. When your the artist, manager, accountant, single dad and do everything guy, weeks when you are sick not much gets done around the shop. But Im feeling great and have some new tile designs to share, more to come in the next few months!