Clay in the Kitchen!!

Here are a few of my pieces I brought down from the firing in Asheville. I am excited to do some more lidded jars and citrus juicers. I set up my pottery in a white hutch that my grandparents just gave me! It's been passed down in the family and now the family heirloom's new home will be my kitchen! I loved how the pottery looked in that classic time piece. Thanks to everyone who came out this past weekend to our First Fridays! If you missed it this past weekend come back out for our next show June 6-7!

art and light!

A talented artist and good friend of mine in the building where I work, Flatiron Studios has just gone live with her website! Teresa Roche is a painter herself, but also curates her gallery, Art and Light. She has everything from oil paintings and collage to eclectic home furnishings and lamps. Teresa has a great eye for mid-century modern design. You have to check out her website that's fresh and live as of this weekend!!!

inspiration!!!

I was browsing one of my favorite blogs, ninainvorm, today and was so inspired by her photos. I have been drawing up some plans to begin creating procelain tiles to install around my fireplaces and backsplashes in my house. These photos she took in Italy TOTALLY inspired me to get moving on the idea of tiles. Thank you nina!!!! words can't really do justice for these photos, so go ahead...be inspired and view them for yourself!

diana fayt

I found this funky ceramic artist's work online and fell in LOVE with it! Her vessels are so playful and colorful. I love the detail work on her pieces and the hints of gestural movement she captures in her forms. Check out her website for more http://www.dianafayt.com/ you can also shop and buy her pieces on her etsy store one black bird

First Fridays!!!

Come join us May 2-3 for First Fridays! We will be open Friday night 6-9 and Saturday 10-3. Come see what we've been busy creating!!! We have great gifts for Mom. Come surprise her for mother's day with a handmade gift!

G-Magazine!!!

G Magazine is Greenville's newest magazine...and they chose to do their cover story of their premiere issue on us...the Arstist District of Greenville!!! The generous article covered my business, lily pottery and my studio and wrote generously about knack, art&light and many other talented artists in the "Village of Greenville"! I walked into Barnes & Noble last night, and there it was, my picture on the front of their magazine! talk about cRaZy...the whole experience was quite surreal, but I am so incredibly thankful to G-mag for this incredible article they wrote promoting me and my artwork as well as so many of my very talented artist friends. I feel truly blessed! Thank you to ALL of you out there who support what I do and are rooting for me, you have NO idea how much it means!!!

petite summer gardens

I am working on a set of 9 mini felt gardens. I have been so inpired by all of the fragrant blossems and trees blooming in my yard and splashing color in the yards and gardens around me. Here are my first 3 gardens that I completed today. The 9 petite flower patches will be framed in small white 5x8 shadow frames. I am very excited about this series of felt. I'll be sure to post a photo of the complete collection when I am done.

buttons!

I now have my buttons for sale on my website :) I have been replacing all the buttons on my clothes with these! I also have sewed them to my ballerina slipper shoes!!! I will be posting more pictures of how I've been using my buttons and I will be putting more size and color varieties for sale on my website soon!

felt for the little ones

Look at these felt slippers for sweet little children!!!! oh my! These are just so adorable! If found the first two pairs on etsy and they are created by Piddies and the last two pairs are on etsy also and are created by Joujoux. EVERY sweet little child should have a pair of these fuzzy little booties in their wardrobe! Be sure to check out Joujoux and Piddies to see the other precious little items they have for sweet babies...you'll want to buy them all!!!

just so many possibilities with felt...

felt for the home

I found these amazing felt gardens on etsy. these are so simple and elegent! I can just see them perched up on one of my mantles...You can check them out and purchase these inhouse gardens and many other great home accessories at the seller Nestahome on etsy.

comforting coffee with a dear friend

I met with my dear friend April this morning for coffee at her place, and she revealed me the newest mug form she has been throwing for our upcoming show in Clemson next weekend...and I just adore them! As I had the pleasure of drinking from one of her newest mugs this morning, I sat entirely happy and content to hold that gestural little mug in my hands and sip my brew. When I sat the mug back on her kitchen table, I could just image the jolly little pot skipping about and dancing a little jig. ahhh...so thankful for the company of good friends and comforting coffee in soulful hand-thrown mugs on warm spring mornings.

my new fetish...throwing bundt cake pans!!!

I am having a blast at my "Clay in the Kitchen" class up in Asheville, NC
I've been making everything from citrus reamers to bundt cake pans! Here's a few photos I took of the pots I threw today for my class next week. I'll be sure to post some pictures of the "finished products" after I glaze and fire them!