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Nov 10, 2024
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...


Apr 30, 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...


Feb 1, 2023
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...


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...


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...


Aug 3, 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...
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