02 Jul Gallery Bookshop – handmade stoneware mugs
We have been creating custom handmade stoneware mugs for the Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino, CA since...
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02 May Business Beat – Handmade Coffee Mugs
Our favorite thing in the world is making beautiful handmade coffee mugs - and second is talking about making our beautiful handmade coffee mugs! So just imagine how stoked I was when Sara Swenson, from the City of Saint Paul's Planning and Economic Development, called about...
15 Apr Mill City Museum – Handmade Mug Delivery
I love being able to deliver our custom handmade mugs to our customers, and I especially love delivering to the Mill City Museum! Last time Eloise was just 1 year old and wasn't much help, but this time she pitched in and helped carry one...
14 Feb What will be the fate of Over Easy Cafe…
The destruction caused by hurricane Ian and the storm surge might be the end of the beloved Over Easy Cafe. It is hard to believe that it was almost 10 years ago that Annie last visited and that might have been the last time! In a recent...
13 Nov First Snow of the Winter!
It's here, it's here! The first snow of the year has fallen and as quickly as it came last Tuesday night it has already disappeared. But what a FLURRY of activity it's been inside the pottery: catalog #9 (featuring all of our handmade and wheel thrown...
12 Sep Powder Blue – Logo Mugs
With the success of Kiwi we decided to bring on another new glaze!!! We proudly introduce Powder Blue. From L to R we have Powder Blue w/Sunshine white, Powder Blue w/Blue white, Powder Blue (solid) and Powder Blue w/white. The other names that we tossed around included Tiffany...
03 Sep Making Mugs – Makes the Papers!
For second chance, St. Paul potter aimed small By Nick Woltman of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press Peter Deneen says bankruptcy was the best thing that ever happened to him. After building Deneen Pottery -- a $1 million-a-year business -- from scratch, Deneen lost the company to his...
23 May New Arrival – not just another cute Mug.
Making mugs is what our family business is all about...
26 Feb Big changes to coffee service = Big success
The Farmers Guest House, located in Galena, IL, shared a change. "We re-did our coffee service with Deneen mugs and Keurig K-cups. What a difference." Wrote Don and Susan Steffan, the owners and innkeepers. "The revenue in additional mug sales makes up the difference for...
04 Jan Birch mug display and increased sales
"We're selling a lot more mugs now and [Darlene] thinks it's because we've set up the 4 mug display, along with mugs in the presentation boxes, right in our dining room," Eric Johnston from the Ash Street Inn wrote in an email to me today. If...