We are super excited to announce our new collaboration for our Illustrator Mug Series with Amber Share! During the dark days of the pandemic, especially at the start, when many of our Park Partners were canceling POs and having to close a bright, funny, creative......
13 September, 2022 Uncategorized No comment1 LikeThe Wicher Garden – Queens Cup Recently I was working with Sarah Stotts, from BedandBreakfast.com, on an article about my family’s Custom Pottery Mug business When she asked me for any new images of our handmade stoneware Jumping Rocks popped into my head. So I......
23 April, 2009 Pictures No comment1 LikeAs my family has been making mugs for customers for over 30 years from time to time we hear from folks like Vince Smith of Houston, Texas: Dear Niles: Approximately 12 years ago, my wife and I were in Ithaca, NY and had the pleasure......
17 April, 2009 Testimonials No comment4 LikesIf you requested a catalog and didn’t receive one in February or March your information did not makes its way through our website to us. We apologize for this miscommunication and failure to send you our catalog. The problems have been fixed and the “Catalog......
15 April, 2009 Announcements No comment1 LikeSpring is finally in the air and I had a few minutes this morning to take pictures of the firing that took place yesterday. We fire the kiln 4-5 days a week, each glaze firing heats the stoneware inside up to about 2350º F and......
15 April, 2009 Just off the Kiln No comment1 LikeNot sure where you were from the March 30th – April 2nd… My family (mom, dad, aunt and wifey) spent 4 days in Atlanta talking about our custom handmade stoneware mugs with some of the best innkeeping professionals in the country. We’ve been working with......
09 April, 2009 Conferences No comment1 LikeOn February 13th we shipped an order of custom handmade mugs to Christina and Charlie Ward in Yanceyville, NC and on February 18th we received this email: Hello Niles, Yesterday I received the handmade mugs, they’re PERFECT! it’s exactly what I was looking for. I......
27 March, 2009 Testimonials No comment1 LikeNo early retirement for Peter Deneen. At the start of this year with all of the economic uncertainty we decided to head out to more bed and breakfast conferences in the hopes of attracting new customers. A few weeks back my dad attended the Illinois......
27 March, 2009 Conferences No comment1 LikeWith each order that we ship, we hope to meet or exceed our customer’s expectations… Now and then we are lucky enough to have a reaction like this: Dear Niles and Teena, I want you to know that our new custom mugs are simply spectacular. ......
23 February, 2009 Testimonials No comment1 LikeIt was a cool and sunny weekend here in Minnesota and we had a firing that took place. Today I photographed a few pictures of some of the handmade stoneware custom mugs that are just about to be shipped. Custom Handmade Round Belly Mug...
16 February, 2009 Just off the Kiln No comment2 Likes
We are super excited to announce our new collaboration for our Illustrator Mug Series with Amber Share! During the dark days of the pandemic, especially at the start, when many of our Park Partners were canceling POs and having to close a bright, funny, creative...
The next featured maker in this ongoing series is Rich Meaux. Rich started as an apprentice at the studio, rose through the ranks, and now owns a pottery studio of his own. He wrote up a little bit of his history and story with Deneen...
It's all about our people! Everyday an extremely talented and committed team comes together to create your mugs. It is the people who create the mugs that make Deneen Pottery the unique company it is. It takes 24 pairs of hands to create a Deneen...
We take pride that we are a family owned business and we value the family of makers that come together every day to make your mugs. Moving out of Father's Day and inching closer to the exact 50th Anniversary (July 15th), we're taking this moment to celebrate our founder who...
This year we are celebrating 50 years in business. Although it may seem like we are mug making machine - our future was never a sure thing. Yes, we have an inspired leadership team, an incredible team of makers, an awesome list of clients, and a backlog...
At Deneen Pottery we are committed to creating our work in the most eco-friendly way possible. Being in partnership with many national and state parks makes us even more concerned with preserving this planet that we call home. We start off by creating handcrafted mugs with...
There is nothing like looking forward to a family vacation. I think it’s been said that a big percentage of the joy of a vacation is realized before the trip even begins. After spending 10 days visiting 3 states and countless sites, I believe that...
We believe that the handcrafted nature of our mugs makes them stand out among the rest of your everyday mugs out there. Now is the time that we feature some of the people at the pottery wheels, the talent at the start of every mug...
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the world, especially on the frontline workers who faced this challenge everyday. Here at Deneen Pottery we wanted to find a way to honor those workers, so we focused on what we do...
If you haven’t already heard, we here at Deneen Pottery are launching our latest glaze color - Apricot! This glaze had an interesting origin story so it got us thinking that we should share how our glazes are created and what makes glaze mixing especially...