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Successful Displays Demand Attention
Today, we’re highlighting a few of our favorites, each showing how a good display turns handmade pottery into an unforgettable treasure....
05 September, 2025 Customer Spotlight No comment0 Likes
Amazing Stoneware Mugs – Amazing Images
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 got on the phone and......
23 April, 2009 Pictures No comment1 Like
The Hunt for a Handmade Round Belly Mug
As 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 Likes
Attention Catalog Request Recipients
If 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 Like
Custom Handmade Stoneware Mugs & More – Kiln Report 2
Spring 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 Like
Innkeeping Conference and Trade Show – Paii
Not 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 Like
Azariah’s Olde Storehouse Testimonial
On 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 Like
Peter Deneen at the Illinois Conference
No 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 Like
First Handmade Stoneware Testimonial!
With 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 Like
Custom Handmade Stoneware Mugs & More – Kiln Report
It 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 Likes

09 Nov Leaving it Better Than We Found It

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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...

27 Sep Deneen Family National Park Road Trip

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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...

09 Aug Get to Know Some of the Hands that Make Your Mugs!

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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...

08 Jul Brave The Day Mug Donation Campaign

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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...

15 Jun How the Glaze Gets Made

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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...

16 Dec Brave the Day Mugs

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With COVID-19 cases on the rise and healthcare workers continuing to push themselves to their limits, we wanted to take an opportunity to celebrate everyday heroes. It doesn't take a special occasion or a pandemic to know that healthcare workers are superheroes. Although this year has...

25 Nov DENEEN POTTERY’S NATIONAL PARK MUGS MARK A SPECIAL MOMENT IN TIME

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This week we were lucky enough to be featured by our friends in the Great Smokies on their web blog! Check out the story below...

26 Oct 8 Ways to Make Your Morning Brew More Eco-Friendly

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How eco-friendly is your morning brew? K cups and other single-brew pods account for a large amount of landfill and are the least eco-friendly way to make coffee. Single-use filters also have their problems, as they can create quite a lot of trash even with the...

11 Jun Illustrator Mug Series #8 Elizabeth Gray AKA @thegraytergood

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Making mistakes is part of being human - learning from them is how we grow. This is our time to CREATE a new future. We might not get it right, but if we keep LEARNING from our FAILURES we will never be stopped. CREATE • FAIL...

17 May Illustrator Mug Series #7 – Scotty Russell

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The series continues. Somehow we missed getting this out ahead of the release of #7 Space Pizza Dog. As we are refocusing on what we love to do - CREATE - we are recreating this post as a catch up from last year. Making the highest...

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09 Nov Leaving it Better Than We Found It

27 Sep Deneen Family National Park Road Trip

09 Aug Get to Know Some of the Hands that Make Your Mugs!

08 Jul Brave The Day Mug Donation Campaign

15 Jun How the Glaze Gets Made

16 Dec Brave the Day Mugs

25 Nov DENEEN POTTERY’S NATIONAL PARK MUGS MARK A SPECIAL MOMENT IN TIME

26 Oct 8 Ways to Make Your Morning Brew More Eco-Friendly

11 Jun Illustrator Mug Series #8 Elizabeth Gray AKA @thegraytergood

17 May Illustrator Mug Series #7 – Scotty Russell