Amber's Muddy Blog

2011-12-07T11:20:00.001-08:00

Kazia and Keagan entered some art work into the Christmas Lamb Art Contest at the Springville Art Museum. They both made it into the show! Way to go, girls! Here are some pictures of their work. Kazia did the white Nativity and Keagan did the "New Star" ceramic piece.

2011-11-14T11:56:00.001-08:00

It came!

The painting of my bottles arrived! While writing this blog post my daughter was looking over my shoulder. I started to write, "I am trilled with how the painting turned out..." and my daughter said I was writing too formally. So here you go...here is how I really feel about this painting. Christopher Thornock's paintings totally rock!!! I can't believe my bottles have been captured in one of his paintings. I'm always a little sad to part with a piece of pottery I've created. They almost become one of my children. Ask my family, I often refer to them as my "babies." This pottery exchange is a little different in that I got my "babies" back in the form of a beautiful painting. Thank you, Chris! I can't wait to get this awesome painting framed!!! (Scroll down to see a photo of the bottles before I sent them off.)

I was featured on Etsy today!!!

2011-11-12T21:12:00.001-08:00

The White Crackle Raku Vase is mine!

2011-10-28T08:41:00.000-07:00

This is a little tea set I made for my daughter Kazia. It is still in the "greenware" stage, which means that it still needs to be bique fired, glazed, and refired. I used some underglaze to paint the poppies on it. Shhhh...it's a surprise for Christmas!

Here are 2 out of 3 nesting bowls I'm making for myself. I keep giving the ones away that I mean to have for myself. We'll see how long these stay in my cupboard. The third and largest nesting bowl isn't dry enough to trim. I'll post pictures when they're all done!

I'm on a mug-making kick. I've got six more that need handles, and I'm planning on making more. It must be hot chocolate season!

Chip and dip tray. These are so fun to make.

I'm resurrecting this blog!!!

2011-10-20T13:20:00.001-07:00

A few months ago I was contacted by an artist named Christopher Thornock that is also from Utah. He's a painter, and was interested in doing a "trade." He wants to used my pottery in his still life paintings. After checking out his website, I was very excited to get this trade going. He does beautiful work!!! I agreed to do 3 bottles for him (pictured above). In return, he is going to do a painting of the bottles for me. I will post pictures of the painting as soon as I have them.

I was featured on Etsy today!

2009-12-27T20:47:00.000-08:00

2009-11-30T07:24:00.000-08:00

I will be at the Battlecreek Boutique this week.

Trick or Treat!!!

2009-11-04T18:23:00.000-08:00

Ready to hit the streets!!

Keagan was a cute little pussy-cat this year.

Kazia decided it would be fun to be a rag doll this year. Her costume was easy...we just had to buy the socks and the red yarn for her wig.

Karrica and I (mostly I) sewed this lovely Jane Austin dress. It was quite the project, but she has been drooling over them for a couple years now. We even watched Pride and Prejudice while Kardell took Kazia and Keagan trick-or-treating.

American Fork Canyon

2009-10-18T20:20:00.000-07:00

I had to add this cute picture of Keagan. I wish I knew how to rearrange things in my posts.
In July, Kardell took us on a nice little drive up American Fork Canyon. I put the pictures in backwards, so I this post might make more sense if you start at the bottom and work your way up to the top.
More wildlife...Oh, I mean, that's Kardell :)
Goofy girls!

Kazia, the fearless climber!
Here is some of the wildlife we encountered. After a bumpy ride up to the lake the girls enjoyed seeing a mother duck and her baby ducklings. Kazia also found a few slugs to pose with.

Here's a cute picture of my little tree huggers.
Okay, so I'm a little slow. This was a fun trip up American Fork Canyon last July. It doesn't seem that long ago, but all the leaves have changed by now. Kazia and Keagan enjoyed a little hike up the mountain, with Mom taking pictures of them along the way.

ClayHaven was featured on Etsy's front page today!

2009-09-30T09:11:00.000-07:00

Color Feature of the Week

2009-09-12T21:12:00.001-07:00

Wow, I made it into Charan's color feature of the week. Thanks, Charan! Please go check it out.
http://creativewithclay.blogspot.com/2009/09/color-feature-of-week-khaki-brown-green.html

First Day of School

2009-09-12T20:56:00.000-07:00

This is a bit late, but I wanted to post the girl's first day of school pics. I actually got Karrica to turn and wave as she headed out. She just loves it when I get the camera out :)

Charmed Ceramics Feature

2009-06-26T14:36:00.000-07:00

CharmedCeramics has been selected for the 62Cards "Saturday Spotlight" this Saturday, June 27th! Check out my interview with Sammye Jo at:
http://www.62Cards.blogspot.com

Getting this Blog Going

2009-06-24T18:46:00.000-07:00

I'm excited to get this blog going, but I'm not sure what my first post should be. I want this blog to be a combination of my family and my pottery. Maybe I'll just start with a few pictures from Spring Break and see where it goes from there.