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Ok, I’m trying to get pass the Darth Maul images that pop into my head when I look at this finished piece; but for the […]

So relieved and glad to have some gnomes come out of the kiln with no fogginess in the clear glaze! 🙂 These gnomes were made […]

So, I’m not sure how I feel or what to write about these gnomes. I’ll be honest – I’m disappointed in how the clear glaze […]

Ohmygosh, I’m so happy with how these little guys turn out! I really wanted to recreate the large frog that I made back in the […]

I made a few more gnomes from a red clay body that I’ve been using for the past several months. These gnomes were made from […]

After making my flower-inspired garden masks, I really wanted to continue making and carving masks, but with a different underglaze color and theme. I’m not […]

Prepping for the masks I made molds for the masks using plastic grocery bags that I shaped and taped. Pretty simple and low cost, easy […]

I love getting a chance to work with different clay bodies, so I was very excited when a friend gifted me a box of red […]

Whenever I get time off work, usually in the summer or around the winter holidays, I love to take day trips to Art Museums. I […]

So many workshops, so little time… I love attending workshops – clay, stained glass, basketry, embroidery, jewelry – just about anything I can afford to […]

Frogs are one of my absolute favorite animals and I’ve made a few different clay versions of them over the years. The last version was […]

My first ever experience with throwing or working with real clay was in undergrad. As an art major on the BFA track I had to […]

Clay Slabs Clay slabs are portions of clay that have been flattened into a sheet, usually with uniform thickness. The clay slabs can be used […]

May 20th – Excited to say that I sold my piece at the show! So excited, so surprised. The piece is going to be a […]

I started some smaller gnomes in the fall of 2022 but due to illnesses (Covid and then strep, ugh) I didn’t have a lot of […]

Back in early December of 2022, I took a Christmas ornament making class at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, located nearby in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. […]

In the summer of 2014, I began creating animal garden masks. Just like the human/human-ish garden masks I previously created, the idea was to use […]

We bought our house in the summer of 2012 and the house has an adorable fenced in small side yard with large trees and some […]

Well, I started 2020 making the friends in the photo above and I had no idea what was about to happen to the world. I […]

I continued making gnomes well in to 2017. I experimented with sizes, decorative elements, and colors. I had started writing and carving names and words […]