New Favorite Cup

One of the gifts Cynthia gave me for mother's day was this lovely ceramic cup. She picked it up from the Xiem Clay Center spring sale and is made by a visiting japanese master potter. It's now my most favorite cup. 


The other gift she gave me was an artisan sour dough loaf baked by Craig Ruggless. Here is Craig of Winnetka Farms holding a basket of his sourdough available every Saturday at Mother Moo Creamery in Sierra Madre. It was such rustic goodness. 

Score! Thanks Cynthia!

Lovely Orchid

We hope everyone had a lovely mother's day weekend. I was gifted an orchid for the occasion but I couldn't help myself and I just had to change out the container. So here's the pretty orchid in one of our own PUTIKMADE vessels.

Hibernation Weekend

Cynthia said it best. "I'm hibernating this weekend."

After being surrounded by thousands of people at the Grow! Festival all last weekend, we need a bit of downtime. It's so nice to be alone in my little humble hole throwing on the wheel. Ah, solitude. 

Well, at least until the four year old tornado returns from daycare. 

Happy weekend and Happy Mother's Day:)

Miniature Pine Tree

Crassula tetragona in wall/table UPO vessel 

We are loving this Crassula tetragona in the wall/table UPO vessel. Also known as a miniature pine tree, it is a succulent native to South Africa. Hardy and drought-tolerant. Water sparingly once a month. 

More Mini Vessels

More mini vessels added to the shop. 

More Scenes from Grow!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the show! We had a wonderful time!

Special thanks to Mike Brown, horticulturist, landscape designer and entomologist, who ran a planting demo/workshop in our booth on Saturday morning using our vessels. We're part of the Mike Brown fan club!

We're going to get right back into production mode so we can fill up the shop with some more handmade goodness. We're also looking to do more events over the summer - we'll definitely keep you posted:) 

Scenes from Grow!

We're a bit tired...but we had a blast at the show!

  

Firstly, we have to say we have the best customers. Like the first couple who walked in Saturday morning into our booth clutching a clipping of PUTIKMADE in the LA Times article saying, "We want to buy pottery!"  

We love it! Just know you are a super cute couple that reduced two appreciative girls to teary buckets after you left :)

Secondly, this weekend provided the best learning experience. Like we definitely needed to bring a shade structure and some sunscreen. Let's say we got a little crispy. And other vendors at the show were so friendly and offered us great advice and encouragement. 

Would we do this again? YES! Online selling is wonderful, but meeting people face to face provides interaction on a whole different level. We met new and old friends, handed out as many postcards as we could, and oh yes, sold a few pots along the way - goals met! More pics later.

Little Bit of Everything

We started off the busy day with an early morning power breakfast.  Cynthia made a delicious fritatta with toast and tea. Yummy!

Then we dove into work. 

While I planted pots for the show, Cynthia packed up some orders that needed to go out in the mail.  More errands, decisons, a haircut, korean food and then more decisons made for a long day.  But we are having a good time and we're stoked about this weekend! Below are a few of the planted pots you'll see at the show. Hope to see you there :)

                               

LA Flower Mart and a Gabba Balloon

Some more errands related to the show took us to the Flower Mart in downtown LA yesterday. Despite all the May Day protests and road closures, we met our two goals in under 30 minutes - a metered parking spot close by and coming home with a bunch of dried craspedia. Yes!

And Alex got his reward for being a patient little guy.  

        

It's a Sign

Booth details...working on the display sign.