Holiday Market tomorrow

All 5 of us Mud Buddies will be displaying some new pottery for this event.  It's been a great spring, summer and fall here in Black Mountain at the weekly Saturday markets (6 months in all!)

At the start of our season, we all posed together!

And we're so happy that many of our pots have now gone home to live with our dear customers and/or their friends and families!

Today's Quote:

No matter where life takes you the place that you stand at any given moment is holy ground. Love hard, and love wide and love long and you will find the goodness in it. Susan Vreeland in “Lisette’s List”

Happy customers

A beautiful day last Saturday, and this mother and daughter seemed pretty happy to go home with a tall vase of mine, (dragonfly) and a berry bowl of Cathy Babula's (already wrapped!)

The two of us had such fun representing the Mud Buddies...and will be here another week by ourselves at the Tailgate Market.  (Behind the First Baptist Church on Montreat Rd, in case you're coming to town.)

The Holiday Market at same location will have all 5 of us with lots of new things for sale on Sat. Nov. 19,(10-1 pm) the last of our outdoor sales this year.  Whew! It's been a long 6 months, and this year the Mud Buddies managed to be there for all but one market (due to high wind forecasts from Hurricane Matthew, but the weather didn't really happen).

Thanks for following my blog and all my posts about this adventure. As a hobby potter, I've been rubbing shoulders with some of the professionals when they have sales at other venues (Dillsboro, Art by the Tracks, Spruce Pine, and various galleries.)

The vase at the top of this post (with orange Freesia flowers) will be at the market this Sat!

I'm not finished for the year yet...with several indoor shows still to come, just look up at the list above right under the header!

Today's quote:

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
— David Attenborough

The last TailGate for 2015

What a great season this has been for the Mudbuddies.

At least in friendships shared, and spending 3 hours each Saturday in the lovely setting behind the First Baptist Church.  It was great being outside in the sunshine, under the oaks, and watching the children and dogs cavorting around with their parents.

We had to cancel several markets because of rain this year.  That was a first.
Our Mudbuddies have had two of us in attendance each week, but we've shifted around sometimes due to health or traveling.

The Holiday Market is set for Saturday Nov. 21, from 10-1 pm.  I'm bringing all my mugs.  Really!  As well as some lidded jars with some treats to put inside for gift giving!

So it's time to say so-long.  And a big thank you to all our great customers.  See you next year!

It's been fun!

Bee mug order

I sure hope the woman who ordered this coffee mug with a bee design came to pick it up today.  Cathy had it at the market.  If it didn't get picked up this week, it will be there for the Holiday Market next week.  The shape was thrown by Marsha Cozart, another Mudbuddy, and I just did the bee painting.  She then glazed it.  It's our first collaboration.