Mother's Day Pottery Sale

I've been worried for a week about this sale. Did I have enough stuff? Do I have the right kind of stuff? Was the weather going to be good, does anyone care? Have they all had enough of Hughes Pottery?
Maybe, Yes, Yes, Yes,and NO. Thank you everyone for loving my stuff enough to take it home.

it's 4:30ish and things have slowed down, we're thinking about lunch..perhaps after we close.

The weather has been good most of the day, it started out a little cloudy and rainy but cleared up nicely. Now that the day is nearly done it's getting cloudy again and the wind is picking up You can see in the picture how you can look right up the tables skirts ! It even knocked over one of our signs!

These sales are often stressful for us, there's a lot of preparation and not much sleep but at the end of the day we're usually feeling pretty good again. I feel great right now and am looking forward to tomorrow!

quick and dirty

Here's a few shots of the top layer of the latest kiln for the home studio sale...looks promising, can't wait to get to the lower levels!

Getting Ready

This picture is from our display at Pennsic 2008


I sure wish the rain would go away. Not that rain is a bad thing, but it does serious damage to our sales and events when it happens on the weekends. 2 relatively big shows this past weekend tanked. It looks like we have a potentially nice day for sales on Saturday for our home studio sale, but it's been really difficult getting ready to host it.

Morgan has been diligently cutting and re-cutting the grass every afternoon during the rain breaks. Today we almost got the tent up before it started again. Tomorrow I am going to get the pots we sent out last weekend and bring them back. I also have a glaze kiln loaded with new things that will be out Friday afternoon.

I have a lot of really cool goblets in this kiln..a lot of cool jars..well..I guess I have a lot of cool in this kiln. I'm pretty excited to see the results.