–it’s the little things

It really is the little things that make us happy. We normally work in a smallish studio space with 1 minor window.  One day it dawned on us that our studio is connected to a spacious patio–so why aren’t we working on the patio?,…

–namesakes

Soozee here…I wanted to share a quick story… My mom’s house is a foster home for kittens via the Suffolk Humane Society in Virginia.  She regularly has kitten-guests for 2-6 weeks, depending on their situation.  She socializes them, nurtures them through their spay/neuter recovery…

–studio visit

…now for something completely different… I think we’ve mentioned how much we like field trips! And we haven’t been on one in a while, so we decided on a reverse field trip. Last week, we had the art department from Trader Joe’s  over to…

–a warm-up on a chilly day in the studio

Why am I showing you food on our tile blog? …and what do these items below have in common? If you’re a devoted Trader Joe’s fan, like we are, then yes…they all came from TJ’s. Tracy and I were hard at work in the…

–Mary’s Market

If I were looking through the Ramona Paloma tool box for a very useful tool, I would pull out  “the morning walk”  device.  It’s hard to find something more effective to adjust the “thinking knob” than a walk in the canyon toward our favorite…

–Merry and Happy!

Each Christmas, Tracy and I have found little special somethings to gift each other with…little somethings that brought a chuckle or an “Aaaah–you remembered!” This year, we decided to give each other the gift of time… As we work across the studio table from…

–Friends!

Thank you for coming by to see us at Creative Arts Group over the weekend of November 2 – 4. Tracy and I had such a nice weekend visiting with you guys. We met lots of new people and treasured the visits of known…

–the summer

Dear Mrs. Covington, Over the summer I went on some trips, played with clay, and visited with my family.  It was good, uh , I mean it was nice…   It was really interesting.  ( Aren’t fourth graders supposed to use better descriptive words than…

–if you like pottery…

Soozee here…I couldn’t help but want to share this story I read–  It’s about a North Carolina potter who hand-built 100 huge ceramic jars in about a 3 month period of time.  He then sold them all, first come-first served, in less than 20…