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Controllers, Cry Piles, and Getting Back to the Wheel
Creek Road Pottery LLC Newsletter – June 7th, 2026- Hello from rural Pennsylvania, where the solar controller is sitting on the shelf, the blueberry bushes are freed from their vines, and the wood kiln is standing out in the … Read the rest
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Planting Seeds, Building Kilns, and Getting Out of My Own Way
Creek Road Pottery LLC Newsletter – May 24, 2026 Hello from rural Pennsylvania, where the garden is finally going in, the wood kiln arch is waiting on me, and the studio is slowly becoming the thing I’ve been planning … Read the rest
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Building The Arch
Creek Road Pottery Newsletter – April 12th 2026 I had been avoiding the arch bricks for months. With all the bricks piled together from the kiln deconstruction three years ago, the task looked like it would take days. The weather … Read the rest
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The Spring Show and Year Ten
Creek Road Pottery Newsletter – March 29th 2026 The spring show marked ten years of Creek Road Pottery as a business. Ten years of selling pots, eight years of selling locally. I spent the weeks leading up to the show … Read the rest
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Show Week Chronicles
Creek Road Pottery Newsletter – March 14th, 2026 The question wasn’t whether you felt inspired to start creating. The question was whether you were willing to create in order to become inspired. I found that waiting for inspiration could take … Read the rest
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Spring Show Experiments
The snow is finally melting. Spring rain is washing away the last of the ice, and with it, the inertia that kept me from the studio through the coldest months. I have one more night shift at the big paper … Read the rest
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Winter Dispatches
Winter hit hard this year. The kind of cold that makes the studio feel like a walk-in freezer and the kind of snow that turns an hour drive into a white-knuckle adventure. I’ve been splitting my time between twelve-hour shifts … Read the rest
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The Holiday Rush
Friends, The Back Road Christmas Trail ended at the close of November. My back went out. The kilns mostly cooperated. And I ended up learning more about trust and generosity than I expected. Running on Fumes The week before the … Read the rest
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Behind the Scenes: Fall Show Prep at Creek Road Pottery
A week in the life of preparing for the Artists’ Open House Weekend Tour The Build-Up Preparing for fall shows while working full-time at the paper factory meant using every bit of vacation time for pottery. There was something thrilling … Read the rest
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Late Summer Thoughts –
Back to the Wheel SoonAfter about a week away from the wheel, I can feel the pull to get back into the rhythm of making pots. The fall shows are coming fast, and I need to start filling the … Read the rest
