Lazy Bear Pottery Studio Version 3 is well underway! It is definitely smaller! Or maybe i should call it cozy!

I mentioned new shelving etc from our fun over the weekend!

I can almost see my pottery wheel now!

This long weekend will see some definite organization! An old computer and monitor we came across during the office clean up will find a new home! My main offenders to keeping me from becoming fully organized is my stock! I need to find a place to store my pottery! Or perhaps sell it – novel idea!  J

So if anyone wants to help me out! Check out etsy.com or lazybearpottery.com and buy some!

Maybe next year I’ll join the family for the strawberryfestival and sell it there!

And if you remember Uncle Frank....  Our Body!

Here is his new home!

Kiln is unloaded and Lazy Bear Pottery has some new goods!

Ok, well the kiln was unloaded a couple weeks ago, but the whole process of getting my on-line catalog updated is long! Sand, measure, weight, take picture, enter data into database, upload picture.  It’s easier to throw the pot than to catalog it!

I think I have an idea of what archeologists go through!

These are some examples of what the Christmas fairs will be seeing from me this year!  Tealights!

 

See the rest of the newest items at Lazy Bear Pottery!

Made it back to Colorado! We were delayed leaving La Guardia due to no water in the bathroom. OMG - hold it!  So that put us off by an hour. Poor loren was stuck waiting for 4 hours for me to land. Sigh.

Today we head to our Renewal Weekend with Deepak Chopra! Let's see if I am a different person when I return!

In the good news front - I sold 7 items from Lazy Bear Pottery at the Made in Colorado Shoppe! Woohoo!

This weekend was our first solo car camping trip together!  We survived!  Woohoo!

The trip came about with my contacting the Made in Colorado Shoppe.

I wanted to have my pottery displayed there for people that might be interested in buying made in Colorado pottery!  We packed up 1.5 boxed of pottery to bring down for consignment. The woman in charge was a might abrupt/direct  but I managed to not be offended or get my feelings hurt with most of her comments! Yeah me!  She took about the equivalent of the big box worth of items to sell. That was good! Cross your fingers that other people like it too!

After that we headed off to enjoy our weekend in the woods! 

We headed to down town Pagosa Springs to have lunch – yes it was about 3! We picked the mexican restaurant on the river!

Tequila's Family Mexican Restaurant
439 San Juan St.
P.O. box 3397
Pagosa Springs, CO   81147
Phone: 970-264-9989    
Description: Specializing in Mexican food from family recipes, for all families, friendly service, and a pleasant atmosphere.

I would compare my seafood tacos with the mini lobster tacos at Coyote Grill in Laguna CA which is one of my absolute favorite restaurants! Mmmmm! It was fabulously yummy!

I chowed down on my tacos and yummy margaritas while hubby had a chimi changa!

After that we headed into the wilderness to begin our camping portion of  the trip.

From recommendation of both the owner of the Made in Colorado Shoppe as well as the fella at the Chamber of Commerce info booth in town – we headed back to Williams Creek Resevour for our nightly stay!

  We passed most of the camp sites – all but the one by the lake had plenty of space, and stopped at the Chimaron site (39 on the map).  We found a spot by the river! Such a great sound! 

We successfully set up camp – tent  (which had some additional holes from having lent it to a friend who didn’t clean it out and trapped a little bug inside that attempted to eat his way out – sloppy friends are the worst), sleeping bags, pads (one that needed to be blown up cause I didn’t properly read the description when I got it for hubby for Christmas), and pillows!

Next we attempted the camp fire. We didn’t bring enough wood. So we did the bad thing – foraged for down trees around the camp site!  We found enough to keep us comfortable for the evening!  We decided against our main meal – mac n cheese with Vienna sausages – since we had such a big lunch just a couple hours earlier. So we did the next best thing – cocoa and s’mores!  Nummies!

We both slept in fits and spurts. Not sure why, I usually do well in the woods, but some reason I wasn’t comfortable – I think next car camping trip I’m bringing my regular pillow!  Hubby actually was cold – I was sad that he was cold but pleased that he got to live in my world for just a night!  ;) 

Next morning brought us our first opportunity for cooking! My usual breakfast has to do with oatmeal.  Hubby thought this was crap and suggested pancakes…  We only have our cool titanium cook set and didn’t really consider the ramifications of cooking a single pancake at a time on a funkily heated stove top.  We used A LOT of butter, but they came out ok.  Not sure if we will attempt that again, maybe if we get a real griddle or maybe a bigger pan.

After our carb loaded breakfast we headed off on a hike! 

We headed down to Williams Creek Trail.  This was a trail that offered up something about a walled garden.  There wasn’t really, but the view of the river was super cool about a mile up.  We gave up after 2 miles and headed back to camp.

We then broke camp, and headed off to see some waterfalls!

We started with Piedra Falls – 8 miles off of the 20 miles dirt road on a less graveled road.  Good thing hubby is such a good sport!  The falls were about a mile up a trail and were pretty darn spectacular!  The amount of water coming through was amazing!

Next stop was Treasure Falls (you can see this one from the highway), the other options were listed with warnings about washed out roads and slick conditions.  We did the little hike (under a mile) to the blow out as well as the falls.   Really pretty stuff!

Finally we headed back home around 3, 3:30 pm.  Yes I am very mean to my hubby!  We still had a 5 hour drive home!  Ooffa!

We did get to see the Lazy Bear Cabins! We were so excited!  Might have to give them a call and see if they want to partner!

We also got to stop at Dunkin Donuts on the way back to civilization! Mmmmm!

 Great weekend and can't wait for more camping!  Just gotta spend some more money at REI!

I created a bunch of tea lights today. Well I had made some mini vases and pots monday, and today I trimed them and cut different types of holes to let out the light. I have stars, dragon flies, and daisies. They should look really great with the lights out -  wink wink!

I have one that I made years ago that is stars and moons, and we really enjoy the shodows on the walls.

My neice received 2 that were snowmen with top hats. The first one bit the dust via the cat. I think the second one is still around!

I'll get some pics up after they are fired!

I ran through some test tiles as well as some new bowls and vases.

Check out the new goods!

I'm excited about the new colors and how it looks on the new clay!

A while back when hubby and I merged households there were a couple duplicated appliances. Not the big ones, since I had gone from apartment to his house. But the semi major ones.  Like the kitchen aid mixer. Mine was a 5 quart stand mixer where the bowl lifts and lowers, hubby had the 4 quart with the head that tips back. Of course, mine was better, cause it was mine. Hubby had the same thought. So we had a mix-off. Both mixers would be put to the Neiman Marcus cookies recipe test. The mixer that survived in the best condition won.  I had made this recipe multiple times and figured I’d have no issue (and seriously, who is the one that bakes, of course my mixer would win not matter what, unless the engine gave!).  So we measured and mixed, added dry ingredients, and more dry ingredients, and still more…  My mixer decided to start smoking and hubby’s starting making a very bad sound. All in all we ended up with over 10 dozen cookies and 2 mixers in the house. 

Then we moved to Colorado.And we moved both mixers. My mixer got the spot on the baking station, hismixer was the back hall. The mixer just sat under it’s cute little cover thatmom-in-law had made. Just sitting, waiting for it’s day to help with cookiesagain.  Well….  After I hurt my hand in the studio a coupleweeks ago attempting to mix and stir my glazes I got to thinking…  I asked hubby if he would mind if I took hisprecious mixer to my studio and put it work. He was pleased to be of assistancefor Lazy Bear!  So I tried it and itworks great! It can sit and mix and mash for hours at a time and I can addwater or dry glaze mix whenever the mood suits me, what a fabulous idea!  So I now have a favorite new tool in thestudio, the stand mixer!