What a week!

Special thanks to fellow Highland Park resident Katherine for posting us on her blog almostgrownla.blogspot.com. You're awesome! We're dedicating this song to you by Artichoke.





Happy weekend :)

We're on Dwell.com!

Holy cow! We're on Dwell.com! Thank you Aaron Britt :) Read here.

Lesson Learned

Picked up some pieces at the studio yesterday.  Looks like the green glaze I used was contaminated with some other glaze and made white streaks.

Aargh.

The perils of working at communal studio. A good lesson. Now looking into using my own bucket of glaze so this doesn't happen again.

Trial and Revision

One of the designs we are working on is a cork lidded vessel. It's still very much in the trial and revision phase.  Working with two parts now, both the lid and mouth must align correctly. So the mouth must be very round to fit the cork lid just right. And the measurement of the vessel when wet has to be calculated, because as it dries and gets fired twice, the black mountain clay shrinks 12%.


Aaargh. Easier said than done!

We're in the LA Times!

Speechless. 

Seeing yourself written up in an article for the first time is such a surreal experience. We have have received such a positive vibe from so many people about our business. Can it be that when you love what you do, everything just falls into place? Oh that, and working our butts off. Still.

Wow.  

Thanks to Lisa Boone of the LA Times for making me sound much more coherent than I usually am. Here's the article.

More Pots

New pots we are working on.

Order Up!

Our first order! This one is being custom made due to the quantity requested. Our first customer will always have a special place in our PUTIKMADE heart :)

What's a Murmuration?

Wow. Happy Weekend :)

Shallow Bowl Planter Part I

Working on a bowl planter.  This one will be a bit larger in size and shallow.  We'll post its progression. 

Part II
Part III

Before and After #2

A PUTIKMADE pot is good

but with a plant, it's so much better!