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What Gets Made
How to choose what projects to spend time and effort on from my long list of ideas used to be a bit of a conundrum for me. I could choose...
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- Feb 1
Accelerating from Zero
As I wrote about last year at this time, January is always a period of reassessing for me. It involves rereading and writing and drawing...
- Nov 13, 2022
Never Not Doing
We are never not doing. And it often feels there is never enough time to do all of the doing I'd like to do. Sometimes I decide to pause...
- Jun 23, 2022
Firing, and Re-firing
Did you know that every ceramic element I make gets fired twice? The first is a lower temperature and is called a bisque fire. When the...
- Mar 30, 2022
Meet My Leather Scrap Bin
It's been so many years since I worked for the unique handbag company Elizabeth Powell Leather Items in New York City. I was Elizabeth's...
- Jan 31, 2022
Fresh Starts
For many years I have thought that the Lunar New Year which usually falls in late January or early February is a better time for us to...
- Dec 8, 2021
Making and Giving
The holidays for a maker and baker can be an inspired though hectic time of year. The build up is worth savoring and the excitement...
- Nov 18, 2021
Stimulation, Inspiration
In the last many weeks I have had the treat of experiencing several cultural events that felt amazingly pre-covid-like. Sure, in the...
- Oct 25, 2021
Hi, I'm Amy!
I've always been curious about the "Meet the Maker" questionnaires that I see from time to time on social media. It's fun to get to know...
- Sep 27, 2021
Meet my kiln, "she's a hottie!"
Maybe you're interested in knowing how I fire my ceramic beads, discs, and vessels. Several years ago when I was first starting out in...
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