December 31, 2008

Last Day Of The Year... Front Page of ETSY...























Front Page of ETSY....
That's a fun announcement for the last day of the year...
I really didn't have any other great visuals to share so this came just in the nick of time...
Too tired to do a year in review... But...
The year had... well... a lot of great times rolled up in it...
Then there were some not as great times but...
I am quite pleased to have 2009 waiting in the wings and I am very thankful for all that I have.
The Love, The Opportunities, The Present.
I'm one lucky girl.
Thanks for your support.
It has meant a lot....

December 26, 2008

HAPPY CHRISTMASKWAZAKKAH !!!

No photos... too complicated from my friend's laptop...
Happy Holidays all!
My cold is better... not pefect but definitely better...
The mountains of Whistler are cold and snowy right now...
Several Bruises and pulled muscles from snowboarding...
Hence, all is well...
Big plans for the new year.I haVE A FEW ORDERS TO FILL ON THE FRONT END...
AND.. Yoga... FOR SURE!!!!
Read Gargoyle if you get a chance... it's wild!
Best wishes all!!!

December 19, 2008

200 Etsy Sales and ON VACATION!





This is what my ETSY banner currently looks like.

Well we are leaving today ...supposedly...for Whistler...but it is snowing here...so this could be one
LONG STRANGE TRIP...
Not to mention I have this awful cold flu bug...CRANKY GIRL...
I will RALLY!!!

I want to thank Jerry from the blog-world for helping me reach my sales goal!

Meanwhile...
I wish you all a lovely holiday season
and here is my snail mail holiday card...
I'm still making them!!!


















This is how I am hoping to look very soon!



















I'll be following you bloggers from my blackberry so give me some good reads!!!!!

December 16, 2008

Better than Pottery...

I am plugging away with listing, selling, shipping, making holiday cards(why oh why???), last possible firings, wrapping, packing(Whistler here we come...) and
I can'tt hink of anything I've(we've) "made" batter than these two...
Totally different from each other yet remarkably similar... smart as well as smart-alecks, artists in their own right, adventurers as well , a skier and and boarder, fric and frac .
Our boys....









In case I forget....
Have the most very happy holidays!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

December 11, 2008

50 listings on ETSY....

Well... I have been trying to raise the number of listings I have on ETSY.
I hear 100 is a good "lucky" number... but...not there yet... and so it goes... Not complaining...but when they sell... you need to list something else...


































I am on the last 3 pages of THE DIVIDED HEART and I have to say...It is a great book...at least for me ...and any artist or writer or actor or dancer or frankly anyone who has a passion/drive to their work who is a mother(although an involved father may understand too...)

December 09, 2008

Finally!!!

Put a bunch of my Judi Tavill Ceramic Porcelain Pendants that I do so well with at little shows...up on ETSY!!!!
The pendant is $10 the cords are $4 and $8....
BAHHHHHHGAIN!
They are great to wear around... very fun and super little gifts!
This gives you an idea:




December 08, 2008

Whoo Hoo!!!! I'm in Etsy Gift Guides!!!

So excited... I haven't been in the Gift Guides for a while!!!!
So fun... this piece is in:

















I got both teapots into the teapot show.... so I am happy.... they were shown in that previous post....
I'll try to go to the opening on Jan 10th but my mom is away... so I am sad....

December 06, 2008

Steamboat Springs Teapot show opening and... OATMEAL!

Well.. the opening in Steamboat was last night(I think) and the lovely Deb Babcock forwarded photos of the teapots on display. Since this is my blog... I'll show you where mine are!

That's my yellow one! (To the right of the brighter yellow!)














This is my soft blue one is this pic! Sitting next to the lovely Kristen Swanson's Set!














And lastly... My Toasted Marshmallow Teapot!













All are for sale through the gallery!


This is me eating oatmeal out of my new Deb Schwarzkopf CUP(this picture is using the computer cam...sorry it's not great!) from the Demerest Show... I'll eek out my purchases... I don't want to give you everything at once! That's no fun!

December 05, 2008

Say Cheese! So Tired! and... So Excited!
























I have been photographing and re photographing and trying white backgrounds vs the graduated grey and frankly... I am back to where I started... just a little more refined... ARGH...so tired....
BUT!!! I am so excited for a few reasons but I will only tell one reason now... the other will have to wait for Sunday PM!!!
So the thing I am so excited about today is our trip to DEMEREST tonight!!! Awesome show!!!! And... I have been saving up my pottery money!!!

December 01, 2008

100 Teapots at Baltimore Clayworks



I can't believe it...
It was probably a fluke that I got accepted....
But I'll take it!
I have no idea if one or both got in but these are the 2 that I submitted...
I've never entered one of these competitions so I am indeed happy to have the opportunity to display along side these fabulous artists...










Teapots IV
Artists' Announced
Juried by David MacDonald
January 10 - February 27, 2009
Thank you very much to juror David MacDonald for selecting the work for our exhibition.

Congratulations to the following artist accepted into Teapots IV at Baltimore Clayworks!

You will receive an exhibitor’s packet with more information this week. For those who did not make this show, don’t despair, keep creating and keep trying.

David Austin, Hadi Abbas, Lorna Awalt, Marc Barr, Abigail Deneau, Jim Dugan, Jessica Dubin, Delores Fortuna, Yoshi Fujii, Susan Greenleaf, Jim Geletka, Robert Garron, Hsin-Yi Huang, Matt Hyleck, Steve Hilton, Judi Tavill, Elizabeth Keller, Judith King, Susan Kent, Jon McMillian, Joyce Nagata, Crystal Pillsbury, Roberta Polfus, Collette Smith, Gary Slavinsky, Lauren Sandler, Rebekah Strickland, Joyce Tanner, Katherine Taylor, Delanie Wise, Sherry Wells, Gwendolyn Yoppolo.

David MacDonald, Juror
Statement:
The teapot is the quintessential ceramic enterprise. It is an aspiration to the novice, and a source of inspiration and consternation to the experienced clayworker. It represents the classic culmination techniques and skills acquired during the education of the potter. It required a finely tuned sense of scale and proportion in combining all of the diverse parts into a organic whole, much the same as a newborn child that is scaled down but in perfect proportion. The teapot has fascinated and inspired artists for centuries as a vehicle capable of having meaning and purpose beyond its ability to dispense a certain volume of liquid. It has been used to represent every noble and debased quality of humankind. It has been used to record our observations and enchantment with Nature in her myriad forms. Because of the history and continued fascination with this particular utilitarian form, the expectation for this exhibition is a display of a diverse and experimental interpretation of this classic form. From the conventional to the strange.

But however experimental, one aspect of the teapot must be acknowledged: IT MUST POUR!!!!! For if it doesn't it is not a teapot but a teapot-like object. Some find this as a severe limitation in creative design; while others will if it a challenge. I hope many will rise to the challenge.

The teapot has fascinated and inspired artists for centuries as a vehicle capable of having meaning and purpose beyond its ability to dispense a certain volume of liquid. It is an aspiration to the novice, and a source of inspiration and consternation to the experienced clayworker. It is the quintessential ceramic enterprise.
Because of the history and continued fascination with this particular utilitarian form, the expectation for this exhibition is a display of a diverse and experimental interpretation of this classic form.

From the conventional to the strange. But however experimental, one aspect of the teapot must be acknowledged: IT MUST POUR!!!!! For if it doesn't it is not a teapot but a teapot-like object. Some find this as a severe limitation in creative design; while others will if it a challenge. I hope many will rise to the challenge.