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Introducing New Vessels
I've been working on a new series of vessels, or vases if you prefer, for a while now. Shortly before the pandemic started, I had been...
Nov 11, 2024


Learning to be stimulated
Last fall I signed myself up for a 12-week jewelry casting class. It was something I had been curious about for a long while, but after a...
Apr 30, 2024


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...
Feb 1, 2023


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...
Nov 13, 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...
Jun 23, 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...
Mar 30, 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...
Jan 31, 2022


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...
Nov 18, 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...
Sep 27, 2021


Make Making Made
What a crazy year and a half it's been. It's interesting to have a set period of time to look back on and really absorb and recognize the...
Aug 3, 2021
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