Fine Mess Pottery

Psychology Today has an interesting article this month on why we get so attached to our favorite mugs. They offer six reasons, including th...

Last Wednesday I made a trip to Lewiston (the Dirty Lew, as we cal lit here in Maine) to get hardbrick to raise the stack a couple of cour...

In the Chinese Lunar calendar, today is the first day of the year of the Fire Monkey! I'm not one for superstition; good thing, too,...

Yesterday I was stuck in bed with either a cold or the flu - I can never tell the difference. I'd have been kicking myself for declin...

Pasty, lutefisk-looking pots The Demon Crudebake has been at work. Ugh, it's been so long since I had a bad firing I forgot how mu...

Yesterday Portland Pottery hosted Martha Grover , Maine's returning prodigal potter. (We didn't kill any fatted calves - I'm ...

I just found my name in the preliminary program at nceca.net: Thursday March 17th 4:00pm - 4:30pm 2505 A/B (Level 2) Process: That'...

Serenit-Tea Soap I remember when January was a sleepy time for me... what happened to that? Well, I guess it's better as a business...

Though it's still two months away, I have NCECA on my mind in a big way. I have a list of things that need to get done before then, fr...

See lots more of Kirsten's fun pots here .

Bisquing today. It's nice to hear the hiss of the burners again. Usually I don't fire in January, but this year I have an order w...

After the installation of the storm door, which has been on the to-do list for ten years , I finally finished a wallpaper frieze in the g...