A mug full of flowers! Who says a mug has to be just for coffee or tea? I prefer to use them as a vase for pretty flowers. Bright colored anemones, ranunculus & gerbera daisies in a swirly blue hybrid mug. Perfect for another Mugshot Monday!

A little Fall collection gracing the kitchen table… flowers, fruits & veggies, pumpkins & MUGS!!! Another perfect way to celebrate Mugshot Monday!!! Thanks for sharing your autumnal display Kelly!!!

At the end of the workshop, AL and I did a little pottery trade!!! I came home with a great lidded bowl. Where the rim is hollow & perforated so it doesn’t get hot… and a lid that flips over to become a bowl. Again, with hollow & perforated knob so it too does not get hot!!! AL went home with two of my hybrid mugs… not so matchy-matchy… but clearly close enough that they just couldn’t be separated from each other!

So I did a little roadtrip up to Appleton, Wisconsin yesterday to drop-off some hybrid mugs with the fine folks at MKM Pottery Tools. It was great to finally meet Rick, as well as his support staff with Angie, Rachel, Seth & Christopher… as we’ve only known each other “virtually” online. It was great to finally hang-out, get to know each other for real & deliver some of my soda-fired hybrid mugs to them. It was kind of a cool “full-circle moment” as I use the MKM handrollers to create my hybrid mugs. And Appleton is apparently where all the magic comes from!!!

Headed north for a fun roadtrip… getting ready to deliver a special “commission” of hybrid mugs!!! It’ll be a fun “full-circle moment” for these mugs… more details to come!!!

Sure, I coulda done this over the past week or so… but it’s always “so much more fun” to be prepping, pricing & packing pots on the day when I should out in Barrington setting up already!!! Well, at least this large batch of new hybrid mugs will be coming with me this weekend to ART IN THE BARN!!!

I got a fun surprise “shout-out” by the folks at MKM Pottery Tools. There I was just casually scrolling through my Insta Feed… and suddenly… “Hey, that mug looks familiar?!”… and it was one of mine! Just another one of my “hybrid mugs” that are both wheelthrown & handbuilt. The top part is a textured slab made with my favorite carved handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools! So many patterns, so many options… thanks again MKM!!!

I spy with my little eye… one of my hybrid mugs out in the wild! This one appears to be having a “play-date” in Theresa’s studio up in Alaska! Looks like a great addition as she’s getting busy with her handbuilding slabs! Perfect for another Mugshot Monday!

And never fear… I still have a LOT of photos from Alaska to share… I just need to find the time!!!

Just another batch of hybrid mugs… ready to unload from this past weekend’s soda kiln. Refilling my “inventory” for this weekend’s art fair in Glenview! This Saturday & Sunday it’s ART IN THE GARDEN with a group of my talented friends!!!

Some of these will be there… and some will make their appearance at ART IN THE BARN a couple weeks later in Barrington!

After two amazing days of teaching my workshop with the Fairbanks Potters Guild, I had several demo pieces that needed to go somewhere… and not into my suitcase!!! So the four mugs were raffled off to four winners! Now they get to glaze & fire them. The bowl demos will be trimmed & glazed for their Empty Bowls fundraiser. And my large stamped platter will be finished & hang on the wall in Tammy’s studio where the workshop was held. Nice to know they’re all going somewhere good… better than squishing them up!!!