Since discovering the idea of pottery blogging not long ago I’ve been a daily visitor to Michael Kline’s blog. I think reading it for a while is why I decided to make a blog part of our website re-design. I have always loved Michael’s work and we were glad to have some of it in our gallery for one of our group shows a few years back.

I’m enjoying the fact that there is a community of artists writing about their work and their daily life. Two potters who I have never met and honestly, I didn’t even know their work before finding their blogs, have become part of my fix of my online pottery habit. I look forward to one day seeing each of their pots in person…especially after following their blogs. So, if you haven’t already, please check out blogs by Brandon Phillips and Ron Philbeck.

Finally….a pottery related blog post after bringing politics and movies and new cousins to the site. More pots were made yesterday so I guess I never caught up on all that work or got handles on those mugs. Better get to that this morning…..after making a few more bowls.

And my kids are going to be big cousins again to a little boy getting ready at Northern Westchester Hospital right now. My sister-in-law is being induced today and we’re all waiting. I’ll post an update when I hear from my brother.

Update:
Harry Beckett Kreeger healthy baby boy joins Evan, Patty & Oliver Kreeger as the Somers branch of the Kreeger Crew.
5lbs 7oz.

That makes 7 cousins since 2003!

Late Update:
Here’s the first pic. Pottery blogging will begin again tomorrow.

-Non-Pottery Related Post Warning-

I’ve been meaning to watch it for a while but Evangelina and I sat down and watched “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” last night. It’s an unbelievable documentary that words cannot describe. Even if you don’t like his music or his drawings it is still an unbelievable story.

Tables are filling up with pots and scraps, trimmings are on the floor, mugs to get handles onto and I just made some more pots. I’m getting dangerously close to getting way behind here. I do want to make some more cups and then maybe I’ll start catching up….after I wedge up some clay for some small bowls.

Anyone think I’m procrastinating on those mugs from the other day?

Lastly, never play Connect Four with my 5 year old son Javi….it can be kind of humbling to lose so many times.

My work on the website has stalled for the past few days as I’ve been in the studio making work. I definitely need to kep working on the website and get more images loaded and more pages built but it’s on hold until my friend Bruce can help me with one more thing. I don’t quite understand it but we’re going to change the site to a php version which in the end will make updating easier. That, and it means we should be able to get the webstore up and running via my point of sale system in the gallery.

Basically, what it means is everything that I’ve entered should go up online with the ability to look, click, buy with a credit card securely online and get your order shipped. It does beg the question…can you sell pots online? I asked earlier and I’m still not sure. For a while now just about every customer has asked if I sell my work online. I’ve always thought you needed to see the piece, touch the piece and then decide to buy….but maybe we’ll be able to sell some very real pots virtually. If all goes well maybe within the next couple of weeks I can get a beta version of Kreeger Pottery’s online sales gallery up for a preview.

In the meantime, I’ll continue making pots and photographing more work…both mine and others as it comes into the shop. I still haven’t taken pictures of Hilary Law’s work and gotten it up to the site. Hopefully, I can catch up on that tonight. Here are a couple of pics of recent pics….some mugs and a large serving bowl. Instead of making a series of the same mugs I decide to make each one a little different….not how I usually work. The idea of totally new work going into the reduction kiln has been really liberating for the kinds of pots I have been making and how I’ve been making them.

I found this via Daily Kos, one of my daily political fixes.

Kos found it on another blog….John Cole’s Ballon-Juice. It is John’s idea of what the Democrats will do to get back together before the convention.

I think we have a nominee in the Democratic party and it is nice to be on the winning side for once.

Today it’s time to catch up on some studio work.  I’m trying to stay on top of things in there this go around.  Instead of throwing just about everything and spending the rest of the month trimming, handling, and decorating I’m going to try not to overload myself.  And I’m getting dangerously close to getting behind.  I’ve got some plates to trim, some ovals to finish and some pitchers to get some handles on.  That, and I want to make some more mugs.  So, before I throw those mugs I better catch up on everything under plastic.

We’re having a slow morning today.  Evangelina and I actually crossed over the bridge and went up to Boston last night.  We got home around 1:30am and my plan for being well into a morning of work in the studio hasn’t happened quite yet.  I’m almost there…but, right now I’ve got two little kids in my ear asking if I want to see their rocket ship….gotta run.  After I take a quick tour of space I’ll finally trim those plates and maybe attempt making some pitchers for the first time in a while.

Just finishing up making sure that everything is priced and entered into our new system.  It’s a typical Cape Cod spring day here…..rainy, a little chilly and awfully gray.  We don’t really have a spring here.  Last week was a definite gift to have sunny weather in the high 60’s for an entire week in April.  Today is more like the spring days we’re used to up here.  It’s okay…the fall up here is worth the lack of spring.