Still setting up and the shelves are filling up quickly. I’m pretty excited that I’m starting the
Holiday Home Show with over a hundred mugs!!! That’s a LOT of mugs. I love making mugs.
If I could only make one form for the rest of my pottery career – it would be mugs!

Plus, they make perfect gifts! And they’re food-safe, dishwasher-safe and microwave-safe.
Sadly, everything except gravity-safe!

Today I did some grocery shopping for party snacks. And then have been making
“ClayQuilts” all day – hoping to finish them and have ’em all dry by the weekend.
Tiles, tiles, tiles. Hundreds of tiles!!!

The Home Show shelves are filing up quickly. And with the right afternoon light
streaming in through the window shades, you can get the perfect highlighting on
every stamped impression! Loved it…

Still setting up my Holiday Home Show. Trying to check off my long list
of things to do! And I thought I’d share another photo as things are coming together.
This time it’s some textured slab vases – with a different pattern on each side!

It is now only six days until my annual Holiday Home Show.
I’ve been doing a lot of finishing, pricing, packing, shlepping, setting up shelves
and carrying everything up three flights of stairs! Things are coming together nicely,
although I still have a LOT of projects to finish before next weekend!

Three weeks from today… and tomorrow!!!
Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 20th & Sunday, November 21st.

And while you’re marking your calendars… I’ll be at the studio making more work
and getting ready for my big holiday kick-off party! Throwing, stamping, glazing & more.
Hope you can make it! There will be pottery in every room of my condo… plus the
ever-popular “Tired Of Shlepping Sale” on my back porch. Clearance & discounted demo
pieces at drastically reduced prices – and there’s a LOT of work already pulled aside for it.
More details & pictures to come as it gets closer…

Yep… it was so much fun last week, that we decided to keep the fun going!
And continue with the cleaning, organizing & inventory-ing again this today.
Luckily we got through the bulk of the pottery – but I still have a lot to tackle.

Why does it seem like my storage room will never be organized?…
even after two full days of work – and filling up two dumpsters with garbage!!!
I’m sure I’m not the only one with this ongoing struggle…

So while all the photos make it look like all I did was play in the woods…
keep in mind that Amy’s pottery sale was three days – Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Friday was good… Saturday was spectacular… and Sunday was slower.
So we like to focus on Saturday!!!

It was Amy’s biggest one day sale EVER!!! She did incredible. So much fun!!!
Lots of great people stopping by to admire her work, start their “Amy Collection”
and hang out around the campfire getting to know everyone. Saturday was a lot of fun
for everyone. We were all exhausted by the end of the day… but oddly exhilarated
that her inventory was so depleted!!!

Sounds like fun, huh?
Yes, after a long summer of art fair packing & unpacking… let’s just say
that my storage room was “more than a little” out of control. Yikes!
Crates here… boxes there… pottery everywhere!!!

Luckily, my best “art fair assistants” (aka  – my Mom & Dad) also like to
clean, fold and organize things. Lucky me, huh?! So we spent the day down
in the storage room reorganizing my inventory. We pulled out all the crates,
unpacked everything, dusted, cleaned, separated and even did some re-pricing.
I found a few inconsistencies of prices between similar items. So we developed
some new pricing parameters and everything now makes sense. Plus, I can now
see more clearly what inventory needs to be replenished.

Also, while down there going through everything…
we also pulled out a LOT of pieces for the annual “Tired Of Shlepping Sale.”
I think it will be largest collection of clearance, demo & “shlepped” pieces ever!!!
Yep… coming soon to a Holiday Home Show near you!!!
That’s my place the weekend before Thanksgiving… mark your calendars!

This weekend is the Northwoods Art Tour up in Wisconsin. Just in time for Fall colors too!
And my friend Amy Higgason is participating in the tour again this summer. She’s a great
potter who used to work at Lillstreet Art Center with the rest of us. But then she decided
to “fly the coop” and move up to the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Since then, the has made
a nice home for herself, as well as a beautiful studio! And she’ll be showing off her studio
this weekend… Amy Higgason at Pigeon Road Pottery.

It’s going to be three days of fun… and a lot of art to boot! Each day from 10:00am-5:00pm.
Friday, October 1st  -  Saturday, October 2nd  -  Sunday, October 3rd.

Amy will be Studio #14 on the big tour. Also joining Amy will be potter Katlyn Koester
as her guest artist. Both of them make beautiful pots, whimsical decorative pieces and
so much more! Too much talent for just one stop on the Art Tour!!!

I will be traveling up to the Northwoods to help Amy for the weekend – and would love
to see you stop by. Amy makes this incredible work that is quite detailed & intricate.
A lot of textures and patterns. Some of it has sprigs & carving, while others are more
slip & sgraffito illustrations! Incredible work. Come check it out.
For more details… www.northwoodsarttour.com