Now Available at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Gallery Shop

Yesterday I visited Halifax and took some new stock to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Gallery Shop including more copies of What If Michelangelo Was A Telemarketer?, more ceramic ornaments, some pieces from my recent firings, and a couple of flying crows.  

Now that I'm making stuff again I'm excited to start regularly bringing work there. Where the shop gets visited by quite a few tourists I thought it'd be fun to call the Canadian wildlife figurines "Canadian Souvenir Animals" though I'm still figuring out how best to label them.  

Everyone loves a sale! So it is worth noting that the shop is offering tax-free shopping on the Thursdays before Christmas, so December 18th, with an extra 10% off for gallery members! And on Friday, December 19th, as part of their "12 days of shopping" promotion all holiday ornaments will be 25% off.

Crow cup, stoneware (food safe, dishwasher safe) $65

Crow bowl, stoneware (food safe, dishwasher safe) $75

Crow bowl, stoneware (food safe, dishwasher safe) $95

 Canadian Souvenir Animals! $25 each

Pheasant and Squirrel, stoneware

Beavers, stoneware

Black Bear, earthenware

Buffalo, stoneware

Nova Scotian Duck Tolling Retriever, stoneware

Brown Rabbit, stoneware

Fox, stoneware

Mallard and Piping Plover, earthenware

Moose, earthenware

Atlantic Puffins, the two largest are available at the gallery shop, earthenware

Snowy Owl, earthenware

 More "Lunenburg County Christmas Ornament Factory" Ornaments, these ones are available among others, $19.95 each; 25% off on Friday December 19th!

Ermine

 Flying Crows:

Flying Crow, stoneware, $55

Flying Crow, stoneware, $95

This Week's Favourite Things! December 1st - December 7th, 2014

1.  All the wonderful craft markets that were at Annapolis Royal last Saturday: here's a pic.  There was so much great stuff to see!  And I picked up a few lovely ornaments.  There was the weekly farmer's market, plus 3 other (big!) craft markets.  Definitely worth the trip from out our way and in my opinion, worth a trip up from Halifax if you like craft markets.  Here's a map listing off what was happening:

2.  The stained glass artwork of Jay Leblanc.  Jay was a presenter at the Farmer's and Traders market in Annapolis Royal on Saturday, it was so lovely to see her and her work.  I especially love her figurative pieces which have such great gestures and energy.

3.  The ceramic art work of Brad Keeler, and this biographical blog about him by his granddaughter.  Here's a blog post by his granddaughter explaining more about the site she built for him.

4.  Speaking of using the internet to document our stories, here is the link to The Lake Trails Living History Project.   Excellent concept, full of stories from Vancouver Island.  The project executed by one of the leaders of a fantastic community band I played saxophone with in Vancouver.

5.  This video by Awolnation, It's Not Your Fault.  I think it's so sweet and I love how it ends with everyone dancing together:


6.  The movie Gandhi which I finally watched all the way through, currently on Netflix, awesome evidence that one person, acting peacefully, really can make a difference.

New Stoneware Pieces (December 5th, 2014)

Photos of stoneware pieces from a firing done this past week.  The cups and bowls are all foodsafe and dishwasher safe, though I'd recommend handwashing carefully to avoid damage from dishes hitting eachother and sticking-out-bits chipping

Owl Cup:  available at Jenny Jib $50

Cat Mug; available at Jenny Jib $50

Chimp Mug available at Jenny Jib $50

Giraffe mug; available at Jenny Jib $50

Owl Cup; available at Jenny Jib $50

Sheep Mug; available at Jenny Jib $50

Sheep Bowl; available at Jenny Jib $65

Raccoon Mug; available at Jenny Jib $50

Pheasant Mug, available at Jenny Jib $50

Bunnies Mug; available at Jenny Jib $50

Beaver Figurines

Fox Figurines

Largest Crow bowl

Large Crow bowl; available at Jenny Jib $125

Medium Crow Bowl

Crow Cup

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever figurines, the standing one on left
available at Jenny Jib $25

Pheasant and squirrel figurines

Rabbit, Polar Bear, Buffalo figurines

Polar bear figurine from above photo (sold at Jenny Jib)

Rabbit ornaments available at Jenny Jib $22 each

Stoneware mouse and earthenware pig ornament; available at Jenny Jib $22 each

New Earthenware Pieces (December 4th, 2012)

Pics of some new low fire work:

Horses, a goat, dog, cat and peacock

Mallard and a Piping Plover

Owl figurines: the 2 on the left available at Jenny Jib $20 ea

Pig ornament: available at Jenny Jib $22

Atlantic Puffin figurines, 2 available at Jenny Jib, $25 ea

Cats and mouse figurines; available at Jenny Jib $20 each

Cow figurine; available at Jenny Jib $20

Moose figurine

Appaloosa horse: available at Jenny Jib $75

Calico cat, available at Jenny Jib $25

Goat: available at Jenny Jib $25

Grey Mare: available at Jenny Jib $55

Large Brown Horse: available at Jenny Jib $95

Golden Dog: available at Jenny Jib $25

Black bear figurine

This Week's Favourite Things! November 24th - November 30th

The glaze kiln is cooling down and I have some pics of new low-fire work to take and post, coming very soon...  But here's the list for last week:

1. Lunenburg Santa Claus Parade - this was a very sweet afternoon parade on last Saturday full of creative floats and community spirit, advertised by the Board of Trade as the 'biggest small town parade'.

2.  Lunenburg Christmas Tree Lighting - another beautiful event in the evening after the parade with the town gathering around the bandstand to sing carols, listen to a couple passages from the bible, watch a pilgrimage with live donkey and watch as around 100 trees were lit.  It was nice to be in a town that still embraces the word "Christmas"; not to the exclusion of other traditions, but in celebration of this one.

3. Local pottery! tis the season and again there are so many great home studio sales happening. Toni Losey's sale in Dartmouth was last weekend though she has work available by appointment.  Seastar Pottery, Dragonfire Pottery and Crescent Clay have studio sales on this coming weekend, among other group craft sales going on.

4. Knot Pub in Lunenburg - went here between the parade and lighting, really reasonably priced good food and a great atmosphere

5. Christmas on Lincoln Street in Lunenburg - a lot of shops will be open til 8 on the first three fridays in December