A hefty pair of goblets with a warm, earthy brown glaze. Bring these out at your next party and be the envy of all your friends! Ok… Maybe not ALL your friends.

Approximately 7 1/2″ tall x 3″ wide, holds 10 oz comfortably.

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This is a small, simple tumbler. Humble really. Use it for your favorite beverage or as a mini vase for a handful of wild flowers. Holds approximately 8OZ.

Approximate dimensions: 4″ tall x 2 1/2″ wide

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This is one of my fun, twisted tumblers. I used a blue glaze on the outside and a shino on the inside and around the rim. Holds approximately 8OZ.

Approximate dimensions: 4″ tall x 2 3/4″ wide

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This is a simple mug with a wide handle for a comfortable grip. Lightly dipped in a blue glaze, the spots where the glaze was thinner come out a warm, earthy brown. Holds approximately 12OZ.

Approximate dimensions: 5″ tall x 3″ wide

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This is a heafty mug with some decorative detailing around the handle and is dipped in my favorite glaze with colors of brown, grey and blue. Holds approximately 10OZ

Approximate dimensions: 5″ tall x 3 1/4″ wide

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This is a solitary goblet dipped in a single, multitoned glaze of brown, grey and stormy blue. Its tall with a deep, wide cup for the *ahem* generous drinker.

Approximate dimensions: 7.5″ tall x 4″ wide

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This is a great mid-size bowl, destined to be filled with popcorn or your favorite side dish. I used 2 different glazes which created some amazing effects where it pooled. Colors of brown, green, blue and grey will have your guests ooh’ing and ah’ing.

There are some minor imperfections on the bottom of this piece but it will not interfere with its use.

Approximate dimensions – 8″ diameter and 3″ deep.

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Tell all your friends and neighbors!

The good news is Christina and I will hopefully be doing 4 faires this year. Last year we only did 2 and I initially only wanted to do 3 this year so as not to overload myself, which I have a tendency to do and I have an amusing anecdote from the universe telling me to knock it off, but 1 fair that we looked at is a 1 day event, it’s a relatively short affair (10-3) and it’s located much closer to us, so it was kind of a “oh f*** it, lets just go for it.” Christina has been much more ambitious than I but we balance each other well.

I noted to myself recently that I don’t take enough time for myself, as I have mentioned – there were a couple of red flags that I ignored but i’m trying to pay attention now so I don’t get assigned to a mental institution when my threshold is reached, or better, not to reach the threshold at all. Part of the time I now take for myself is knitting and spinning, 2 activities that not only do I enjoy but can be fairly mindless, done in front of the idiot box and that don’t have a deadline. Yay no deadlines! I have also felt like my brain wasn’t being stimulated at all this past year - I like thinking, in fact I am a non-stop thinker (sometimes a problem, but I digress), I like learning as well and I’ve wanted to learn a new language for quite awihle, most options out there are expensive and time consuming at best – yes even Rosetta Stone, I don’t know about you, but dropping $300- $600 at one time for a leisure activity is just not in the budget. BUT, and I was very excited to learn this, Rosetta Stone does offer certain languages online at $20/month for 1 year. Hooray! I can do that! Long story short, I’m now learning German. It’s more difficult than I thought – in a good way and I can do it for 20 or 30 minutes whenever I make some down time or while dinner is cooking. If your PC or laptop has a built in microphone (which mine does) you don’t even need a headset! WOOT!

This leads me to my amusing anecdote from the universe. I was so excited about beginning to learn German, and feeling very ambitious that I mentioned half-jokingly to a friend of mine, that maybe I should sign up for another language online. Mind you, I work 40 hours a week at the day job, not including the 2 hour round trip commute, and a home and family to take care of on top of my pottery ambitions. In short, he told me my head might explode. That same day, I got a fortune cookie that told me “You can’t be anything if you try to be everything.” ‘HA!”, I says, ”Classic. Duly noted Universe.” And on my merrry way I went, giggling at the irony. Apparently the universe felt I wasn’t taking it seriously the first time and my Rob Brezsny horoscope today said “If Mark Twain had had Twitter,” says humorist Andy Borowitz, “he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn’t have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.” I think you’re facing a comparable choice, Gemini. You can either get a lot of little things done that will serve your short-term aims, or else you can at least partially withdraw from the day-to-day give-and-take so as to devote yourself with more focus to a long-range goal. I’m not here to tell you which way to go; I just want to make sure you know the nature of the decision before you.”

Hmm, well played, universe, well played…

Well, supposedly it’s the New Year, I’ll have to trust the calendar on that one. Feels rather unspectacular honestly, and of all the holidays that come and go throughout the year, New Years seems to be the least notable. Every year I struggle to stay awake until Midnight, as though I’ll be able to feel the birth of it. Usually I can only make it until about 10:00 or 10:30 before my eyelids become too heavy to keep propped open. This year, I made it until 1:00am. It was as unremarkable as I thought it might be. Actually Rambler sums it up quite nicely

Don’t worry, I’m not all cynicism. I’ve actually thought back about my year and my biggest hope going into this new one is only to maintain the upward momentum. It was a good year. I still have a lot to learn about my craft, but my growth is noticeable and that makes me happy. For all the difficulties that many people have had to face this year, I’m grateful that our lives are fairly stable. We don’t make a lot of money and occasionally the bank account is tight, but we’re ok. We have a good year planned out, it will be busy, and I’m sure it won’t go nearly as smoothly as I hope it will. There are always bumps and bruises along the way, but you pick yourself up and keep going. And when the bruises hurt an extra lot, at least there’s someone who loves me.

And I get to come home to my love – the elusive Dan bird. One day i’ll get a picture of him on here.

May your year provide growth in whichever area you need it most. And may you survive it…