Whether you run a bed and breakfast, a coffeeshop, a boutique, or a national organization, the items you choose to put your name on say a great deal about your brand. A great mug has staying power. It has a purpose. And it becomes part of someone’s daily life in a way most branded items never do....
20 November, 2025 Guides Testimonials 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 Likes
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hawaii: The land of both rainbows and volcanos. Never have two seemingly polar opposite natural phenomenons come together to create something so pleasant as the islands of Hawaii. Yes, Hawaii is certainly one of the great places not just in the United States, but in the...