We’re a few days after the Hinsdale Art Fair… and my booth display flowers are STILL hanging in there! Looking good in their stamped & soda-fired vase!

Since I don’t drink coffee or tea, I need to find other uses for my mugs! Like celebrating another Mugshot Monday at the same time as today’s national holiday… it’s NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM DAY!!!

And if I’m going to go for it… I’m going all the way with my favorite “Phish Food” from Ben & Jerry’s with caramel sauce, marshmallow goo & chocolate fish swirled inside!!! Gotta celebrate the holiday in style… burp!

Getting ready for tomorrow’s BIG DEBUT of my new “wheelthown-handbuilt-combo” mugs! Cleaning them up, smoothing some bottoms & packing them up for a trip out to Hinsdale this weekend! Stop by the HINSDALE FINE ARTS FAIR in Booth #69 to see me & my new mugs… and a LOT more textured & handmade pottery!!!

Still prepping… still packing for the Hinsdale Fine Art Fair!!! Currently working on some new ikebana flower vases. A simple & clever way to display just a few flowers and yet make a sweet floral statement. There’s a water reservoir and a pin frog under the ceramic disc… kinda “framing” the flowers while allowing them to stand gracefully above the center!

Just a few of the new “wheelthrown-handbuilt-combo” mugs fresh out of the soda kiln! These are just a few of the orange ones… my favorite color! I’m loving the bright, clear color, the flash of soda-white that highlights the textures & the all-around-the-mug texture pattern! Many of the textured patterns were made with hand rollers from MKM Pottery Tools.

Methinks there’s a very good chance that a few of these might just make their “Big Debut” at the HINSDALE FINE ART SHOW this weekend.

And yes, I’m still looking for a clever name to call these new mugs!
Open to suggestions… please…

A simple stamped perimeter making it a not-so-simple dinner plate…
and the handmade stamp that did most of the work!

Sure, my pie crust may not be so decorative this time…
but I was hoping that the handmade stamped pie pan might compensate for that?! And really… it was more about making a yummy rhubarb pie… and then EATING a yummy rhubarb pie!!!

The first layer… the first shelf… the first lidded jar… SO EXCITED!!!

Two days later… and this is all that’s left of Rosene’s chocolate carrot cake! One piece, a ring of frosting and a pretty stamped platter. Looks like it was a big hit. And more importantly, looks like that last piece would fit in small box to ship off to ME!!! Just sayin’…

Apparently it’s MATZO MONDAY!!!
A little matzo ball soup in a handmade stamped bowl warming the day down in Florida!