15 Aug Spotlight on Fable Grounds Coffee
Fable Grounds is about more than coffee; it’s about community! The company was born from a love of books, a passion for coffee, and a desire to bring the two together in a meaningful way...
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30 May A Cup of CommuniTEA: Tea Lovers Tea Club
Tea Lovers Tea Club was founded with a simple mission: to create a warm and welcoming space for anyone who loves tea....
25 Apr Zion National Park: A Place Worth Preserving, One Mug at a Time
At Deneen Pottery, our relationship with Zion is personal. Not only do we create handcrafted mugs inspired by the park’s beauty, but we also support its protection, because places like Zion deserve more than admiration; they deserve our care....
18 Apr Rocky Mountain National Park Spotlight
We at Deneen Pottery are proud to collaborate with the Rocky Mountain Conservancy to create something tangible—a handcrafted way to bring the spirit of the park home. At Deneen Pottery, every handcrafted mug tells a story—and few places inspire storytelling quite like Rocky Mountain National...
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...
14 Nov B&B for Vets – Sharing stories with Smithton Mugs
Rebecca Gallagher, the proprietor of Historic Smithton Inn, emailed me last night with a link to a story that took place at her property on Veterans Day. After I watched the piece it made me think of my grandfather even more since the last blog...
10 Apr Another Mug Tale – Pie in the Sky
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...
18 Jan Back from the Innkeepers Conference
This one will go down as the 'COME BACK' year... Like most businesses and cycles there are good times and, well, some not-so-good times. Over the last 18 years that we have been vendor members of Paii, we have seen some high highs and some lows... Ever since Jay Karen became president, things have slowly but steadily started to change. Change takes time, but in just a few short years with Jay focusing on the innkeeping industry and as president of Paii, amazing things have started happening, and the Charleston Innkeepers Conference is proof. We met more new customers, and wrote more orders for existing customers that we have in at least 6 years. "This is the best conference in a long time", Peter Deneen mentioned after the closing. Peter also said that "more innkeepers increased their orders for our handmade stoneware mugs, and that shows that Jay is doing a great job." We heard that the attendance was up by 20% over last year! Also the overall mood of all that we talked to was of positivity, filled with renewed hope, excitement for Paii, and the innkeeping industry as a whole.
20 Oct Bostrom’s B&B Mug Story
When I first started emailing Judy, owner of Bostrom's B&B on Little Bay Beach, she had a couple of concerns...
14 Sep A Handmade Mug Story
Getting to work for a family business can be a challenge. The rewards of working for a family business, especially one that makes things, like Handmade Stoneware Mugs, are many. One such perk is being connected to the act of creating functional, durable, and safe mugs...
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