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One year, eight months, 16 days

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I've been a widow now for one year, eight months, and sixteen days. Twenty months and two weeks, if you call it by the way...

Dear Tim; who were you, even?

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CW: grief, confusion, anger, you know, all that stuff that comes with death of a spouse and being a widow. Dear Tim; Sometimes I wonder......

What it’s like to advertise as a small, one person, maker/artist/craft business

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In short? A f'in nightmare. Print advertising seems like it's hardly worth mentioning. I'd love to be able to afford to advertise in my favorite...

This Week in Vacation Planning (10/22/23)

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At this point the dates for my vacation next year have changed so many times, I've started not even telling my friends with whom I...
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Souvenirs

It was twenty years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play

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If you would have asked me twenty years ago what I thought I might be writing, looking back on twenty years of marriage, talking about...
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My Random Life

But wait! There’s more!

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What else has been happening that I don't always have time to talk about and it pulls me in a billion directions so I forget...
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Monday Musings

Become the type of person you’d admire

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Lately I've been thinking a lot about my friend Juanita Frazier. Some of y'all know her, or know stories I'd tell of her. I met...
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Souvenirs

When loss sneaks in and makes a home in your heart

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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...
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My Random Life

That time I realized I am… kind of boring — I mean, that I love routine

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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...
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Ramblings

Mask it or Casket

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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...
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There’s something off about that tree

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I was in our driveway yesterday, heading to the post office, when something caught my eye. Something just didn't look right.... You know how you...
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My Random Life

Entirely too much fun for a Monday

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I spent most of yesterday shirking work and being social (shhhh, don't tell my boss). I started off meeting a long-time online friend for lunch...
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My Random Life

Maybe finish what you’ve already started, first?

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I have... four pairs of socks on the needles right now. And yet I'm contemplating buying more needles, so I can start on another new...
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My Random Life

touchdown brings me ’round again to find

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I went to see Rocketman with a friend yesterday, and y'all, it was amazing. I mean, the movie itself was beautiful and uplifting and magical......
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My Random Life

Hell is other people

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A million years ago, when I was in theater school, the last play I did was Sartre's "No Exit". (I played Inès , if you're...
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Happy Things

On supporting other artists and makers

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It may surprise you to learn that I'm not independently wealthy. I KNOW. How can a woman who makes baby head mugs and writes serialized...
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A Day in the Life

haldecraft

Maker of thrown, hand-built, and slipcast ceramics; dyer and spinner of yarn; writer of science fiction; watcher of people and nature.

Lorena Haldeman
New in the shop - Use this cutie solo, or with the New in the shop - Use this cutie solo, or with the matching larger and smaller ones as a set of nesting dishes. This is perfect for serving dessert, a side dish, or to set cookies or cupcakes on at a party. Perfect for holiday gatherings!
This good-sized hanging planter is suitable for in This good-sized hanging planter is suitable for indoor or outdoor use (although if you live in a place with regular freezes, we recommend bringing it inside for the winter, as extreme temperature changes can be bad for the ceramic... let alone your plant, which... you probably already knew!). Comes with a rope hanger.
Camper planters; now in two sizes! Camper planters; now in two sizes!
Maybe you feel a twinge when, at dinner, you bring Maybe you feel a twinge when, at dinner, you bring out the butter on a small saucer. Or maybe on a cutting board that you'd rather be using for something else. Or maybe you don't even bring out butter at all, unless someone asks for it, just because you don't know what to carry it to the table with. Wouldn't you rather your guests get a twinge of envy?
GLAM Craft Show countdown.... 3 days! Only three d GLAM Craft Show countdown.... 3 days! Only three days until GLAM Craft Show on December 3rd (at First Magnitude Brewery in Gainesville, Florida), where HaldeCraft, along with 90 other vendors, will be celebrating fifteen years of this amazing show. Come check it out, see more of what's in this teaser photo, and everything else that the other fantastic vendors will have! I'm excited to see more potters there, like Cath Boswell Ceramics (https://www.instagram.com/cathboswell/). How delicate and lovely are her things?!
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