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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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  • 2013 fundraiser

     Pumpkin Pie Sale   <—  click for flyer with details! My amazing Girl Scouts are raising funds for summer adventures by baking and selling pumpkin pies…

  • Make 22: mug demos for my guild class.

    Demonstrated slip trailing (the bumpy one), agate wear (two colors at once, the green one) and a handbuilt textured slab mug printed with one of…

  • Make 21: I carved a cityscape rolling stamp, and tried it out here.

    When I went to Chicago or NYC as a kid I was fascinated with the bristling tv antennas on the tops of tall buildings. They…

  • Handle demo: Make 20

    College class is making cups, so I demoed three handles — a pulled one, a coiled one and a hybrid.