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Thanks Again!

This past weekend was yet another great time with the Crafty Wonderland folks!    The two day sale wasn’t quite as packed as the one day holiday sale last season, so I had a bit more freedom to talk with customers and meet a few more of the other vendors this time.  Special thanks go to my booth neighbors Squirrel Loves Nut and Bishop Art for their smiles and camaraderie, and once again to Torie and Cathy for putting together another great event.

For all those that I met at the show, please feel free to drop me an email if you would like to be on our mailing or just want to say hello.

Thanks again!

- Brian

brianconnolly, May 4th 2010

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Baby Shakers

bloody_baby_shakersSo my mother said recently “I really like the hands, but I don’t know about all the blood”.  I don’t know what she is talking about, but I have to admit that Mother’s Day might go a little better if I don’t do too much of the drippy red thing.

My Dad is visiting for a week after I get back from adventures on Kauai.  He thinks we are going to be swinging hammers the whole time, but I think we are going to spend most of our time playing with dolls instead.

brianconnolly, February 17th 2010

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In A Box

Stuff in a frame

Today I finally had the chance to play with one of the ideas that led me down the path that inspired my butter dish experiments.

I have spent much of my time lately with my journal and a mechanical pencil.   Searching for new objects through drawing.  (It only took the smile of one pretty lady to launch me on a stint of drawing cake stands.   It is obvious that I am easily swayed with a swoon.)  Bouncing back and forth between found objects, classic forms, and shapes that are in my head.

brianconnolly, February 10th 2010

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Thanks!

Thank you to everyone that came out the Crafty Wonderland show this weekend! It was nice to see several months of planning and hard work result in so much excitement and so many friendly faces.

An added special thanks to Torie and Cathy, the organizers of Crafty Wonderland, and all the awesome vendors that I was surrounded with.

Today, after sleeping eleven hours and tending to the day-job, I have been going through all of our notes and answering emails. There is some firing to be done this week to clean up a some loose ends and answer a few special requests, but when that is all said and done I will be pushing to crank out a few Christmas present of my own. Mother already has a butter dish, so I can’t get away with that idea.

Please feel free to drop me an email if you would like to be on our mailing or just want to say hello.

Thanks again!

- Brian

brianconnolly, December 14th 2009

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Production Has Frozen

It’s a good thing that the weather in Portland has been much milder than that which we experienced during the Snowpocalypse a year ago.  I finished the last of any important casting last weekend, but I was still pouring some of my cup molds just to fill the gaps yesterday afternoon when temperatures finally dipped below freezing.  I now know what happens to slip cast items when they are left to freeze in their mold.. the mold freezes together and the clay item develops fissures of lightning shaped ice.  playing with dolls

I am curious to see what the frozen items look  like after they thaw and are fired, but it’s obvious that if I won’t be doing  any more casting this season until after the Crafty Wonderland show this Sunday when I will have the chance to move some of the casting operation into the second basement for a couple weeks.

brianconnolly, December 8th 2009

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