06 Apr Ambitious Mug Collector…
Continuing on the topic of 'mug collecting' is at the center story of today's blog... This one is a good one about the custom handmade mugs that we proudly create!
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30 Mar The 5 Best Ways to Maximize Your Mugs
When it comes to the subject of creating custom hand-thrown mugs, we consider ourselves the best. From the consistency of our glazes, the functionality of our forms, and the crisp detail of our medallions to their tried and tested durability, we continue to lead the...
21 Mar Over Easy Cafe – Deneen Pottery Mugs
A very close family friend, Anna Rachelle, sent me an email last week while on vacation in Florida. "Walked into a lovely little cafe,sat down and exclaimed to my husband. 'Hey this mug is was made by the Deneens.' Sure nuf...
17 Mar Collecting Deneen Pottery Mugs
People are creatures of habit and collecting things is what we do. Yes, it is true, I have a huge collection of mugs in my office...
14 Mar Durable Handmade Mugs…
With Annie and Eloise up in Baudette with her parents for the next 2 weeks I'm feeling a bit down...
01 Mar Short and Sweet – Handmade Pottery Blog
In the middle of our conference season, and coming off the Birkie (a 31 mile ski race from Cable to Hayward), I have found it difficult to remember to blog. If there is one thing that you are supposed to do with your blog - It is write often, put in pictures, and post them. So I'm going to keep this one really 'Short and Sweet'... The 'Short' part is about the Birkie - Annie and I participated in this Cross Country Ski event in 2009 and 2010 but with the birth of Eloise, Annie was sidelined this this year.An exciting thing about the Birkie is that I contacted them in the summer and we were able to work with their staff in creating custom mugs for their Trail Run event in the Fall, trophies for the age class categories for all the ski races, and a line of handmade mugs for retail! Here are just a couple of images of the mugs that we made. The artwork shows the 2 Norwegian warriors rescuing the infant Prince Haakon Haakonsson in 1205.
Although my time wasn't as good as last year, I enjoyed myself... The air temps was about -3ºF at the start and maybe about 4ºF when I finished... Luckily after the race was over I got to drive back to MN and see my beautiful baby girl and amazing wife...
Now we enter the 'sweet' part of the blog, more pictures of Eloise!
A good friend and photographer, Becca Sabot, came over to our house 2 weeks ago and shot some amazing images of our baby girl. We talked about a few ideas and then began moving furniture and staging things - Eloise was great but didn't exactly go along with our 'plans'... She must be taking after dad. For the shots that we wanted to do with her asleep she would wake up, and then when we tried to go along with her being awake, she would... Yep you guessed it, she fell asleep. At any rate here are some of the favorites!
