A sweet face to greet you in the morning

Charm and practicality in the palm of your hand and SO darned CUTE. Get ready to fall in love with this incredibly sweet, expertly crafted, stoneware mug and diffuser set. This set brings a touch of fresh whimsy directly to your table.

This little cutie can be found in my Etsy shop:
kickthemoonstudio.etsy.com

Lots of new cups and bowls are listed. Head on over and check them out. (pst, we've got roosters!)

New Designs on Original Felting Stones

I'm loving the new additions to my line of Original Felting Stones. These friendly cats are so sweet.

Chick-chick-CHICKEN! Happy, feisty and fun. These feathered friends are newly represented on my Original Felting Stones. I love them.

Roosters are hatching all over the place! I have them on the brain. Colorful and fun, they just make me happy.

Oh, Did We Frolic!

Miss Mouse Came to Call and we all had a lovely time. These sweet mice are the result of my needle felting class today at the Maine Fiber Frolic. We laughed and felted and were amazed at the work of our hands. Just look at these adorable friends. They look like they are on their way to a party, well, maybe they are!

If you are ever in the market for laughter, fun and a new found happy hobby, needle felting is a wonderful way to make some fabulous friends, even if they are the long tailed, four legged, furry kind. 

My next figurative needle felting class is at Pleasant Mountain Fiber Arts Summer Workshop

http://www.pleasantmtfiber.com/Workshop_descriptions_2017.htm

We will be making a Charming Woods Gnome. For more information you may follow the above link.

Do You Frolic?!?

Have you been to Maine? Have you frolicked? Well, BY GEORGE, the Maine Fiber Frolic is THIS weekend in Windsor Maine!

You better get ready for a FIBER and FUN filled weekend! Two days of great food, workshops galore, used equipment, fiberlicious vendors and FIBER FIBER FIBER!

I'll be up there with a few thousand of my best friends, enjoying a fiber spectacular. I'm teaching Silk Painting and Needle Felting and hoping to get out and enjoy the offerings that make life worth living.  I'll be keeping my eye out for a unique piece of equipment to add to the pile at the studio and hoping to meet some new friends while I'm at it.

Don't miss out! This only comes about once a year and the time is ripe. You don't want to just hear about the fun we had, come and make it real.
Here's the link to the workshop page:

http://www.fiberfrolic.com/workshops.shtml

We'll be there from 9 to 4 both days and having more fun that a pig in shaded mud!

I guarantee it.
Yessuh!

Miss Mouse Comes to Call. Sunday.

Silk Painting a Scarf. Saturday.

Just a Lump of Clay

Another drizzly, cool day here in the Mount Washington valley. I love these quiet days, sitting peacefully watching the birds dodge the raindrops as they go about their birdy business.

The quiet helps me to concentrate on my work. I imagine the future of each lump of clay that I am working. I get to decide what it will become what it will inevitably be. A cup? A bowl? Or something else.

Using slow, methodical movements, I coax the wet, plastic earth into pleasing, graceful shapes that someday will be held, used and enjoyed by someone next door or maybe on the other side of the planet.

My pottery ships all over the world and I wonder what the lives of those people are like. How do they go about their days and are they enjoying my pottery? I would love a glimpse into their routine to see if they are just regular folk, like me.

I often see my pottery in the homes of friends and neighbors and it is a humbling experience. To know the work of my hands is a valued part of someone’s daily life, fills my heart with incredible joy and humility.  Because I strive to create pieces that speak of joy and grace to the heart of the user. This is my goal, you see, to bring a smile to their lips as they sip their coffee, reflect upon the vagaries of life and watch the birds flutter past, dodging raindrops, on their way about their birdy business.