09/09/2026
Life as a full-time potter (when nothing is going right)
Let me just tell y’all, life has been life-ing recently. I have tried to really prioritize posting & responding to everyone online because I do love the camaraderie that sharing our making process has created. However. The past few weeks have been ROUGH for ya girl.
It’s market season, and flipping HOT in these parts. It’s wholesale season for us, which means we have $12k worth of orders in our production schedules with hard deadlines. The reformulated clay that we are using irritates my skin, but they are reformulating again so maybe it’s not a big deal? Our holiday collection this year is using entirely new techniques and in a style I am unfamiliar with, so it is taking me longer than usual to create those pieces. Sleep has been hard to come by, despite being exhausted.
And then our glaze kiln misfired this week, and needed to have its guts completely replaced. This is normal maintenance for a kiln, every couple of years or so, but the problem is that the parts have to be ordered in from the manufacturer, and that can take a couple of weeks. That’s not a timeline we can accommodate (remember all those wholesale orders?). So we spent 3 hours researching and calling every pottery supply store across the country to find one that had the parts in stock, and paid for them to be shipped overnight to us.
All this to say; if we haven’t responded to your comments, or emails, please be patient with us. The world seems to be spinning both too fast and too slow right now, and we are just trying to keep our heads in the right spot. Cause your mom was right; it really is always something. However, there’s a lot to be grateful for, and a lot of really fun things coming out of the studio soon. We are just working through the noise of life, and are hoping to find our balance soon.
