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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Make Seven: two more clay stoneware rattles.

    I worked at Hands On Studio today and taught at Toledo Potters Guild tonight — started more projects and demos — but finished these two…

  • Thing a day, Make 6: Rattles.

    I demoed handbuilt clay rattles today. These are drying on the classroom windowsill.

  • Make 5: Spicy beet-pickled eggs.

    I have hens in the back yard who keep laying, snow and all – and hubby and I are on a low carb diet, so…

  • Owens class demo: big jug

    One of my independent study students is making work based on Dave the Slave, face jugs and early American jugs. I demoed this jug thrown…