i got dropped of at CAMP CORRIE today ! i am so excited about the free flowing bacon and the daily mountain hikes. BUT my mom weighed me in and said if i put on too much weight  i wouldn’t be allowed on the plane to vermont later this summer. doesn’t she get it ? the bacon and the hikes cancel each other OUT ! i won’t gain a single pound (cross paws).

why can’t my mom ever let a sleeping dog SLEEP ?

i was EXTREMELY honored for the little spread in the june/july/august issue of CERAMICS MONTHLY. if you want to know how i stumbled upon clay and a little bit about my work life, grab a copy ! it’s a pretty great issue.

p.s. tomorrow i am heading back to france for another residency !

i am slowly entering the 21rst century and i sent out my very first newsletter ! with all of the social media that i have surprisingly joined (you sort of HAVE to these days) i thought a newsletter would be a good way to share the highlights in one fell swoop. i will only be sending these out every few months, or when i am promoting a SALE or a studio event. if you want to sign up, you can email me your email address, or go to my facebook page and click on the EMAIL SIGN UP button to the right, under the main photo.

you can read my first newsletter HERE.

may 2013
emeryville, ca

simple + pretty for simply pretty. 

right outside of my studio is an ENORMOUS fig tree. when i walked by it today, there was  a little fig sitting on the ground right in front of me. i hadn’t noticed that the tree had started bearing fruit yet and when i looked up to search for more, there was not a single other fig on the tree. i couldn’t help but think that this was some sort of a good sign . . . here is what i discovered:

“The symbolic meanings of figs preceded those of the fig tree: figs connote abundance and initiation. Ancient Egyptian priests ate them at their consecration ceremonies, and the first desert hermits ate them, too. (Their nutritional value is also obvious.) The many seeds in the fig are supposed to signify unity and the universality of true understanding, knowledge, and sometimes faith.”

also that figs epitomize the MEDITERRANEAN, its climate, its food, its way of life . . . and guess who’s going to the mediterranean on monday ? MOI !

i fully intend to bring back the rump-kerchief.

it really keeps me warm.

i am very grateful for my mother. she has a LOT to do with who i am today.

we drove down to the central valley to spend mother’s day with her. it’s always such a lovely drive this time of year. this is some of my very favorite landscape.

june 25, 2011
golfe-juan, france

there was a sweet little flea market in golfe-juan where i bought this key. it was very tortuous because there were SO MANY other things i wanted, but couldn’t carry back with me. i was in such pain.

just another BORED meeting !