WillowAK Pottery

We enjoyed meeting many new Willow Garden Tour visitors yesterday. Birch practiced her greeting manners at WillowAK Pottery and the weather did cooperate!    Hope all who participated did enjoy seeing beautiful lawns, plants, flowers, veggies, art, and more throughout the tour. Thanks to all who planned, prepared, and participated in this annual event that showcases beauty in our community. The sites and sights varied widely, each displaying different interests, preferences, and beauty.  If you missed the tour this summer, consider trying to find time for it next year and enjoy the rest of Summer 2022, helping others to do so as well.

Coming Soon...Open Studio Event on Saturday, July 23,  as part of the Willow Garden Tour. Mark your calendar TODAY.  The gardens are always gorgeous! I am pleased to complement the beauty of the gardens by offering an open pottery studio day where "Pieces With Personality" are displayed and available to those wanting to welcome a new piece of art to their home. For the most part, you will find pottery that is functional and fun to own. Stop by between 10:00 and 5:00 on Saturday, July 23, while out enjoying the beauty of Willow gardens. Soon, I will post images of new work from the kiln. Do come back for a look.  Meanwhile, previous blog posts listed here will give you a look at pieces created at WillowAK Pottery.  Do scout about.

 There's something magical about the transition from winter to summer in Willow.  Today, the lake is filled with some ice and some open water; about half the ground has snow covering, yet the rhubarb and ferns are up; and Keith has pallets of plants hardening off by being outside during the day and inside at night. Gardening and landscaping genes are certainly within him.  Potential,  progress, optimism and hope prevail. My report today is mostly about new pieces of pottery recently unloaded in the studio.  Click on the images to enlarge them; at least that's how it works on my computer. 😊   Special order . . .  now with new owner Mugs of multiple shapes, sizes, and colors Mugs similar in design with different handles Mugs in new glaze color Berry bowls with saucers Botany on pie plates Fun with rims Bacon cooker...now "out of stock" with more to be made Medium-sized bowls...cereal, ice cream, veggies? Yarn bowls for those who knit and crochet Fish or...

What crazy weather this winter. Thank goodness Keith and his John Deere have a good working relationship; they are spending lots of time together! Days are noticeably longer now, thank goodness, and those with sunshine are spectacular. Yet there is so very much snow to melt this year! View from studio window  where I sit at the wheel. Snow!    Ice sculptures on porch rail stayed frozen for months.  Cold! Keith and John Deere doing almost-daily duty. Keith and Birch out for their twice-a-day walk. Grandniece Taylor here for Iditarod while trading AL for AK for awhile. Inside beauty is especially appreciated in the winter. If you've seen Iditarod mugs I made recently, commemorative plates, and ornaments, all are now in the hands of the Iditarod Gift Shop.          Speaking of Iditarod and weather, we had the perfect restart weather for sending off the 49 mushers and their teams. Excited. Eager. Energized. Hopefully it will be a f...

  Happy Holidays One and All Just think what a wonderful world this would be  if we all tried to do  what is right in 2022!  Take care, Carol and Keith

 Hopefully you've seen the flyer here and there.  It has locations of the four Willow studios to shop in  and all the info. you need to participate. Here it is if you've missed it earlier: Enlarge to see the detail, please. At WillowAK Pottery, another kiln load of new work was unloaded today.  Do click on images to enlarge them and also view earlier postings to see more pieces that will be available on Saturday. Casserole dishes for those Minnesota hot dish recipes...from oven to table to dishwasher! Yet another casserole dish ready for service A variety of shapes, colors ad purposes A honey jar with ladle and a covered canister Moose foursome with the wood look For  a friend who likes her mug handles spacious A collection of cobalt pieces And another cobalt piece with blueberries in the bottom Novelty pieces...find the dog and the fish Pie plates of simplicity; pie plates of complexity were shown last week Hope to see you Saturday the llth. If it doesn't work ...