Hoo Boy It's Spring & I've Got Pots for You!

Two good outlets are carrying my work now.

My Passover pottery is found on J. Levine Judaica's website. Seder plates, matzah plates, Elijah's cups and more are there.

Seder plates, washing cups and also some very nice serving platters will be found at Judaica House in Teaneck, NJ in less than two weeks, so if you're in the vicinity, stop in there! 

(One of those "very nice serving platters"! Mimi Stadler 2016)

I've added the word "matzah" to my matzah plates... why not? All over, in fact. 

(Matzah plate with the word "matzah" all over it in print Hebrew. Bisque-fired and awaiting glazing. It will be shiny when finished. Mimi Stadler 2016)

As soon as the holiday is over, I'll be making honey jars with accompanying saucers. Look for a colorful new pomegranate design! In anticipation of the honey/sweet-new-year theme of Rosh Hashanah. I should have them for sale by mid-July. I'll be making lots of these. Twenty-five have already been pre-ordered!

And then it's on to Chanukah menorahs. From a maker's perspective, December is around the corner. I have a new design to try. Not only does hope-of-good-design spring eternal, but once I've mastered the wheel-throwing technique for these, new to me but not complicated, I believe they will be fresh and appealing. I'm way psyched. 

Besides holiday objects, I make serving items: plates, platters, salad bowls, condiment bowls, and covered jars. And dinnerware. And some of my work has taken a turn toward the decorative. Materials are available at ceramic suppliers now that make getting color onto clay much easier than ever before. My salt and pepper birds are an example, but there are more...

 Another example is a design I'm working on for big, funky stoneware flowers, a bouquet of bright blooms on bamboo stems, in a bright vase.  So far it's an evolving idea, and a sketch. More on that in the fall!

(Sketching a stoneware & bamboo flower idea. Mimi Stadler 2016)

Happy spring to you!

 

 

Posted on March 23, 2016 .