Seeing how our wholesale customers bring their creativity to life never gets old. From cozy coffee shops to retailers, each display tells a story about craftsmanship, community, and connection....
14 November, 2025 Customer Spotlight No comment0 LikesRecently 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 got on the phone and......
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....
16 February, 2009 Just off the Kiln No comment2 LikesAs our family business (of making logo mugs) continues to grow, stories from innkeepers about 'mug collectors' are happening more often. Typically 'mug collectors' remain mostly anonymous to us as they visit properties and purchase mugs. Dad, from the beginning, has always hoped that because...
Making your logo mugs is keeping us busy! I hope that the summer finds you all well. Here at the pottery we are focused on working hard, as we set clear expectations. We have hired two new potters (this makes 7), and a second shift is...
Instead of making handthrown pottery mugs for the last week Jimmy J. and a dedicated group of volunteers did indeed build a house with Habitat for Humanity. Pictures and comments from each day were passed along, and I decided to put them all into one...
Most of the blogs that I write are about either the custom mugs that we make, custom mugs that we have made for others, or some topic that is related to stories that involve custom mugs. This is the first blog that will have a...
If you want something done ask a busy person. That is exactly why Habitat for Humanity can get a house built in a week - by assembling a bus load of busy people. On June 16th our Master Potter Jimmy J. will be riding on one...
When we introduced our new site, showing off all of our handmade mugs, some pages from the old site were left behind. One of those pages was a 'links' page that had these little .gif files with our Deneen Pottery logo and the words 'we...
I'm just working on a hunch, but I think that one of the reasons our handmade custom mugs are so amazing, might be because of Peter Deneen. I recently had to update my father's artist statement, which I had never seen, because the Guthrie Store...
We are finally seeing a return to the way that things were before the onset of the great recession. The combination of positive economic growth, the early coming of spring (and mild winter), and a renewed desire for AMERICAN MADE STONEWARE are what we attribute...
It has been a while since our last blog and so much has happened here at the pottery. Production is up and lead times are now at just over 10 weeks?!? Yes, it is hard to believe but ever since the holidays things just haven't...
Today I will be telling a story about a very special handmade mug. This mug is the the newest addition to our line of Signature Mugs™ and was named on January 26th, 2012 in Little Rock, AR. So many of our blogs focus on events or...