29 August

Well, Mom is heading back down to the Outer Banks for another show at the Whalehead Club.  We are staying home with Dad this time.  We'll miss her!  She is taking bookends with her this time.  She had trouble with them warping so had stopped making them until she found a new clay that worked better.   They have been pretty popular at shows lately  and she is adding them to her line of functional stoneware and plans on putting them on her website soon!

24 August

This is one of Mom's canister sets - not yet on this website but still available as a special order.  She says they can be used for the traditional things - flour, sugar, coffee, tea - we on the other hand have a different idea - large milk bones, medium milk bones, small milk bones and snappies!!

22 August

Dad has been busy making his kiln load of various size lasagna dishes and trays.  He is the slab roller king AND he makes the most wonderful braids for the ends of some of the trays. 

19 August

Mom and Dad are back home and working in the studio again.  We love it when they are both there doing what they love.  Then we can totally relax - me under the work table and Joy under Mom's pottery wheel!

11August

Well Mom and Dad are sweating out another show in Manteo!  We are nice and cool in the AC.  When are they ever going to listen to us?!  Tomorrow is supposed to be only in the mid 80's - whew!

9 August

Mom and Dad are off to another show tomorrow and we're not going along.  We hate saying goodbye to them - that's always terrible.  HOWEVER, we go to Summer Camp at our friend Casey's house and his Mom and Dad are really cool.  We get to swim in the creek, hang out on the dock and take naps on their couch!    

30 July

Mom and Dad unloaded the big kiln today.  Everything came out fine especially the set of 12 dinner plates.  They plan on taking a picture of them for everyone to see.  Stay tuned!  (We brought them some of the old brocolli plants from the garden we found in the woods!)

July 29

Well, the paper beads are pretty cool.  Mom had lots of fun learning to make them.  She may even add some of her own beads when she makes them into a necklace.  This morning she worked in the studio throwing lazy susans and lazy susan chip and dips.   Tomorrow she and Dad will unload the big kiln which she fired on Wednesday.  We usually hang out in the yard when they do this and bring them interesting things from the woods!

Thursday, July 28

Tomorrow Mom is going to learn how to make  paper beads and then make them into a necklace.  She can use some of her own beads in the necklace, too.  Mom loves to wear jewelry but you know in her line of work really the only thing she can wear everyday out in the studio are earrings.  She even makes some of her own earrings.  It's like Dad says you can't have too many fishing lures - well Mom is kind of like that with earrings!

 Saturday, July 24

Today Dad is doing a Farmer's Market in Deltaville, VA, just about 20 minutes from home.  It's going to be terribly hot but he does have a tent and a cooler full of water and ice and a facecloth to wet himself down with.  Not sure how many people will actually come out for this but maybe the pretty flowers he has in his display will attract somebody.  He'll have zinnias from our garden in both a wall pocket and a pin frog vase.  He's great at arranging flowers by the way!

Wednesday, July 21

 This time of the summer Mom and Dad are picking loads of tomatoes and green peppers from the garden.  They have found a food pantry to give their extra vegies to (that's great but we did offer to help out with the green peppers...yum)  The kitchen sink pretty much always has a colander in it with nice clean tomatoes and don't forget those potatoes, too.  We have this big 5 gallon bucket of potatoes in the cool studio.  Mom just brings a few in every day or so to cook.