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.