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Attainable Goals for 2013
Before laying out goals for 2013, I peeked pack to last year’s post. I had three goals: Have a table at a craft or pottery show away from home. I failed this one. I didn’t travel outside of RDU, but I at least participated in a show I had not done before at Wake Crossroads Fellowship. Instead of traveling, I buckled down to build a new Storenvy site and to re-engage in Etsy. Getting my first online orders was truly…
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Kiln Opening 12-5-12
This week was my most favorite kiln opening ever. The entire set was hand built, other than a few wheel pieces that didn’t fit in the last firing, so it was chock full of texture personality. The pistachio and espresso shino glazes I ordered from Aftosa arrived just in time, and now I’m plotting how I can get my hands on a larger quantity of them at a reasonable price. The pistachio was similar to the sea foam glaze I’ve…
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Store Updates
If you have visited my online store recently, you might have noticed a few changes. There are many new pieces of pottery posted and their listing pics (I hope) have improved. Joe brought home a scrap sheet of paper from the huge work printer, and I’ve set up a place in the dining room as a pottery portrait studio. I’m freakin’ Olan Mills, y’all. Just kidding. The pictures are still a little rough, but at least the background is less…
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Clay Love
I’ve been spending a good bit of my free time (technically I shouldn’t have any, right? Isn’t that what “good” moms say?) hand building at the kitchen table. I’m trying to get one firing in before Christmas. I post all these pictures on Instagram (@psmiles) and send them over to my Tumblr blog (www.paigepuckett.com) or Facebook, so these are nothing new if we are connected on those. Anyhow, this is why I’m not regularly blogging. The clay is my therapy,…
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Incentive (Day 5).
Tomorrow is the big day! Yesterday Joe and I went in the garage and tried to figure out the best arrangement for the display table. Now there is a perfect little drawer for the prints and plenty of vertical variation for the pottery. It was this big three dimensional puzzle, and I can’t wait to show you the finished results tomorrow. Earlier this week we opened up the kiln. There were no glaze runs and most of the pieces came…
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Upcoming Show: The Handmade Market
In just 11 days from now, I’ll be selling my wares at The Handmade Market in downtown Raleigh. This show is huge – in a really good way. There is a talented and diverse group of vendors, and the charity donation drive is raising money for Urban Ministries of Wake County. If my memory serves me correctly, it was the first event at which I ever sold pottery. I was quite novice, and my pieces would have made excellent paperweights…
