News from Earth and Fire -- November 12, 2005
Well.. DUH!!!
I've had this drip coffee maker in from Marty Fielding for quite some time.
9 1/2" tall (with filter basket), 5 1/2" tall (w/o filter basket) X 7" wide (handle to spout)
$150
$150
Since I can see where where it is displayed in the gallery from my desk, I've looked at it often and thought what a great piece it is. People wander by it.. comment that it's an unusual teapot, and I comment that "no.. it isn't a teapot, it's a drip coffee maker, and you'd put the filter in the top and then drip the water through to brew the coffee," and then they say.. "ahhh..."
I always thought it was too bad Marty hadn't made a lid for the bottom part. So that after you had brewed your coffee, you could take off the basket part and put the lid on the bottom part and then your coffee wouldn't get cold so quickly, and the pot would also look "finished" as it sat on your table and you served the coffee.
I've taken that lid off many times, and I've seen people take the lid off many times. I guess I had never really paid attention. Or maybe it had never occurred to me that one lid could serve two purposes. A week or so ago, someone was looking at it, and said, "Cool.. this lid fits the bottom part, too."
What?! It does?
Well, yes, it does!
What a totally creative solution for the problem of having one lid (and you really wouldn't want to have to keep track of TWO lids, would you?) fit both a wide opening and a narrow one.
Chalk up yet ANOTHER reason I will never be a "real potter."
In other news..
I've had time to update Barb Campbell's page with the pots she sent, but I've been going nuts trying to get Peter Karner's page updated. I had gone back and looked at some of the pictures I'd taken before, and I didn't like them anymore, so I wound up taking all new pictures of both the existing pots in the gallery, and the new ones that had come in. Then, before I could even get the website updated the first time, people started buying the new pots, and some of the old pots, and since I had taken pictures with multiple pots in each image, I had to go back and figure out what I still had and what had sold. Then, of course, I had to take some new pictures. And.. well.. it's been a swift-moving target. But for the next 15 minutes, at least.. the page is updated.
A new goal I have, suggested by my good friend Jeff in California, is to note on the Artists main page when I have updated an artists page. Could very well be an administrative nightmare for me, but I'll try for a bit and see how it goes.
A fond farewell
Sometimes I feel like a foster parent of sorts to these pots. They come in, we get to know one another, and then eventually they find their true owners and move out. Obviously the wait for the true owner to find them is longer for some pots than for others, and also obviously I become attached to some of the pots that have been here for a while. One of those pots that had been here a while was the wonderful covered jar from Sequoia Miller that I've shown you a couple of times. I like it so well, I'm even going to use it for my next ad in Ceramics Monthly (in December):
I love that pot! I am also pretty darned proud of that ad, because I took the picture with my very own little low-budget studio and point-and-click camera.
Of course, the goal of the ad, and the reason to use a pot that is in the gallery IN the ad, is that someone seeing the ad would want the pot, call the gallery and VOILA.
So, when a week or so ago as I was minding my own business, a customer brought that wonderful jar up to my desk to purchase it.. well.. I was a bit unprepared to say good-bye so quickly.
She promised she'd give it a good home. I guess that's all I can hope for with all the pots in the gallery.
The good news is that Sequoia was so thrilled that I was using the image of his pot in the ad that he has promised to pick me out some really wonderful pots for my next shipment -- due in here shortly after Thanksgiving. I'm down to the nubbies with Sequoia right now -- I just have a large serving bowl and a vase in the gallery now. (I see I need to retake those images because I can do better now.. so that's on my list for next week, along with getting back to the categorization task.)
Have a good week.
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