I want to make sweeping statements like, “the first time you lose someone you love, it teaches you how to lose everyone else” or “the first time you lose someone you love, you learn what to do and not do the next time.” But I don’t necessarily mean “everyone” – …
In a normal year, about now is when I’d start planning for next year. Work-wise, I mean… my personal life doesn’t really have a plan. Do I even have a personal life? HAH. Anyway, long-time readers will find the drill familiar. September is Fiber-In and applying for December’s GLAM and …
New in the shop, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows. Broken toys, faded colors; graveyards, old pawn shops; broken hearts, dirty windows. Some things are just filled with sadness. With loss. With souvenirs of a life. If it’s one person who could write about life, it was John Prine. In his …
Whoo, what a week. Troublesome gave me a bit of a scare yesterday; apparently he got in a fight with something, some time between 10 PM on Monday and 8 AM on Tuesday. I knew he was acting weird (sleeping really heavily and not coming to me when I called) …
To remind myself about what I did earlier this year, so that I can blog about it, I’m going through my pictures. I use my camera a lot – for pictures of my pets, for pictures of products or works-in-progress for HaldeCraft, for pictures of whatever color I’ve recently put …
I’m catching up on a lot of things this week. Not getting ahead, mind you, but catching up! And I’m heading out of town tomorrow morning — I’ll be bringing some writing work with me, and of course I’ll have access to email and social media, but I won’t be …
Way back towards the end of March, when everything was starting to feel like a dystopian nightmare, I had this idea to put a couple of variations of “what the fuck” on a mug. I was just kind of joking when I said it, but a bunch of people immediately …
So, back in January, I wrote the following on my Facebook page: I am not really sure of what I want to say yet, because my former stepmother, my father’s second wife, was a complicated person and we had a complicated relationship. What can you say when you wish things …
Late last year, around late October or early November, I started doing a farmer’s market close-by, in Melrose. It was definitely what you’d think a small-town farmer’s market would be like. Right about the time I was starting to think that it might not be the most cost-effective choice I …
These days at HaldeCraft I either feel completely on top of things and that everything gets done, or completely overwhelmed by things and that nothing gets accomplished. And those kind of days can happen back to back! In ceramics, desire for the WTF mugs seems to have calmed down, so …
Just a quick post today – I’m firing the kiln and then as soon as it’s done, I’m heading out of town for a day (maybe two, depending on how tired I am by the time I’d need to decide between driving back tomorrow and going to sleep, haha). There …
I wound up traveling last week, hence no Wednesday post this time last week, and this week has been catching up on everything. EVERYTHING! Let’s get to it! Ceramics is my focus this week. I’ve been firing Big Geek every other day, and if I can keep doing that for …
Here we are, at another Wednesday! Didn’t we just have one of those? It’s almost like the days of the week just… repeat themselves. ( shifty eyes ) In ceramics, I test fired the kiln Sunday with a bisque fire (everything went well, no error codes). All my parts got …
New in the shop, Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy. A sketchy city in the desert, full of rogues, scoundrels, and clarinet players. A dive bar where you can make a deal, make a mess, or both at the same time. Hidden alleys and trouble to get into. Everything you’re …
Let’s see… I think we’re into the 437th week of 2020, which means late July, so… I mean, really, doesn’t it feel like that? I saw a meme a couple of weeks ago that it’s not dog years that equal seven for every one, it’s 2020. This year is bananas, …
What is today? Is it Wednesday? Let’s pretend as if it is, even if it’s not. It feels like Friday of next week, to be honest. But I’m pretty sure it’s Wednesday. In ceramics, my obsession with fixing the WTF mugs is finally paying off – I’ll have some to …
Although Under the Sea was pushed back a couple of weeks because of kiln issues, and then life got in the way and it hasn’t had a proper blog post introduction, it’s finally time to talk about …(drum roll please) … Under the Sea. Under the Sea offers four different …
July. Whoa. Who said that could happen? This year has felt like an Irwin Allen disaster film played at 3x speed. (Those meth gators better back off!) ANYWAY. Here’s what I’m up to this week. In ceramics, y’all, I am fiiiighting it out with these WTF mugs. I’m doing some …
I am firmly in Team Mask, and if you’re not, that’s fine, but I don’t really give a shit why you’re not and I won’t argue about it with you. This post is for people who are in the market for masks, or maybe more masks, I don’t judge. I …
Is it Wednesday? I feel like it might be Wednesday. I don’t know, I quit looking at my dayplanner about fifty-seven years ago, in March. In ceramics this week, I’m toying around with some ideas, and also glazing and firing as fast as I can. The temps have been cool(ish), …
It came to my attention last week that I hadn’t done a weekly, works in progress post for about five weeks. FIVE WEEKS. It’s not that I’ve not been working – you follow me on social media, you can see I have. But I’ll do things like… get orders out …
I thought, with yesterday’s scare of thinking I’d lost all the slides I’d just scanned in, that I’d write a little bit about the process I’m going through to scan. I mean, it seems pretty easy, right? Hook the scanner up to the computer? Scan the things? Let me start …
Have you been washing your hands a gabillion times a day? Are your hands raw from sanitizer? I got you, Boo. Well, until these sell out, anyway. You may already be familiar with my goat’s milk lotion (ingredients here). I’d been restocking for online purchasing just a couple of times …
Ever had one of those weeks where everything you try to do takes longer, is frustrating, and comes out wrong? I’m heading into Week Three of that, so maybe it’s time to step back. Slow down. Be the opposite of productive. I know I haven’t done a WiP Wed post …
