We open in just a couple hours. Everyone is filling their shelves and putting out their wares. It’s always so hard to finish putting out my own pottery when all I want to do is gawk & shop in everyone else’s booth!!! Especially my “creative genius” friend Cory McCrory.

Be sure to stop by to chat with the artists, buy some handmade art or just hang out in Amy’s beautiful garden! In the backyard garden of my friend & wonderful metalsmith Amy Taylor.
1205 Hutchings Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025

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My friend Donna Sauers is apparently working late into the night to make just a few more beauties for this weekend’s ART IN THE GARDEN. Pack it in & go to bed Donna… we open tomorrow at 10:00am!!!

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Well lookey here… someone has an article published in the October issue of Ceramics Monthly. It’s the “Tips & Tools” segment… all about using a power drill for the holes in my berry bowls. Thanks to the folks at Ceramics Monthly for inviting me to contribute to their magazine.

Looks like something special in the works?! This is the kind of “magic” that happens when artist friends get together and collaborate. Come to ART IN THE GARDEN this weekend to see the final results. Amy Taylor is amazing!!! And let me just add two more enticing tidbits… “Limited Edition” and even better… “interchangeable.”

So we started with some textured clay “cabachons” or disc inserts.

Then Amy made some great metal “cases” to hold the discs. Practically everything Amy makes has a hinge on it somewhere, so it was no surprise that these do too!!!

A little cleaning up… and then polishing…

Insert the ceramic disk… and voila’… PERFECTION!!!
She’s amazing… and this one may just have to be mibe?!

And again… interchangeable ceramic disks in the hinged sterling case…
but VERY Limited Quantities this weekend only at ART IN THE GARDEN!!!

We’re all frantically getting ready for ART IN THE GARDEN this weekend. And it looks like my friend Cory McCrory might be bringing some hot pots fresh out of the kiln!!! Click on the Link for more information about ART IN THE GARDEN in Glenview. Two days of art & fun this weekend!

Looks like someone has some trimming to do tonight…

Another striking sunrise. No way you could ever get tired of these.
Amazing.

And here’s the “money shot”…

Kids of all ages have gone back to school. Some got crayons. Some got books.
Luckily… after years in Corporate America, I got my crayons back!!!

Little warm. Little humid. Looks like we’re in for a bit of a warm-up…
but still the makings of a beautifully sweaty sunrise!

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Nature encroaching… green ivy growing over the lakefront boulders.