A visit back home

The last several weeks have been nothing short of chaotic for me. I've settled down and settled in again which means I'm back to work. Yay! I went back home for a few weeks and met up with some old friends and spent some quality family time. I was able to go and watch my super awesome niece win the champion ship game for girls fast pitch softball! It was a great game, I think the final score was 13-3.   

My niece Taylor getting her trophy! Yay! Taylor!

 

And of course some silly time with Aunt Denise ;o)

I met up with some old friends at a local hometown bar, their band was playing and seriously... I was blown away, they were absolutely wonderful! I SO Needed this time out. I had a great night and made it in by 4:15am which my dad pointed out to me when he saw me sitting on the porch steps talking to my brother lol

Dolan and I at Point Break Beach Bar

Dirk, Kim and Eric

My friends amazing band, "Drink Drank Drunk" (Mark, Dolan, Steve & Chuck). If you get a chance to, go see them!

  
 

Me and Spencer, some serious conversation no doubt

Recently....

I've been flooded recently with requests for my cookie monster type dunk mug. If you would like to be on the waiting list for one, I promise I have a new batch coming soon! You can email me privately to request that I contact you when they are ready. 

Well last week we were ravaged with tornadoes in the south. I feel very fortunate that we were only left without power for a few days while everything else around us is torn all to hell. I've honestly have never seen anything like it. My street was left untouched, I did end up with someones house insulation scattered about the yard and I have a tree that is now leaning to the side but other then that my property was untouched.
Truth be known I slept through the first round of tornadoes in the area. I guess my momma was right, she always said "you could sleep through a tornado". Ha! Who knew...
Of course it put my work on hold for a few days, electric pottery wheel and electric kilns... *Almost* makes me wanna build a wood fired kiln and get a kick wheel LOL ok not really. Maybe o.O

April fool

Ok so of course in my usual brat-hole fashion I pulled an April fools prank. I posted this picture on Facebook with this explanation (mind you, I had been on facebook all night talking about Grey's Anatomy and cutting up with friends), "After 5 hellish hours in the Emergency room tonight, I get this. Thank goodness it's my left arm and not my right. Long story short, mouse in my studio jumped out of a box I was digging through and scared me, I tripped over a box of clay and tahdah..."

Not even my arm, I found this pic online

Well my step mom see's it and tells my dad and late this morning my phone rings and it's my step mom Cookie, She's like, "Denise... are you ok?" I giggled and immediately told her April fools. Then she proceeds to tell me that dad wanted to call me early in the morning to see what happened and if I was ok and she wouldn't let him because she was sure I was on pain medication and I was probably still sleeping (yes I know.... one more reason why I'm going to hell, right?). So after I get off the phone with them one of my brothers call me and he is laughing, he said, "Denise... you should have heard them this morning, I just sat back and listened and laughed and I thought, Really? it's April Fools day and you guys are gonna believe anything she says? Do y'all even know her?" Then he and I had a good laugh about it.

My oldest son Michael got me, he came home from work in a awful pissy mood. After being home for a few minutes he lets loose with, "Well... you  aren't going to believe this, I got a damn speeding ticket (which wouldn't be his first, actually more like 3rd). I immediately get upset and start the usual mom rant about going too fast and yada yada yada then he has the nerve to say April fool! to me and then laughed and pointed at me with "hahaha oh my god you are so easy".  I honestly don't know where he gets it ;o)

Yay it's Monday!

I had a great day in my studio today. First thing this morning I had an enormous amount of pottery to ship off to customers so I got busy. After the packing, shipping and the run to the post office (I play foursquare, I'm the mayor of my local post office haha!), I loaded my other kiln and got that little baby fired up and finally creative time! I've made a bunch of new hand built plates and poured some molds. 

 I've totally kicked butt today :o)

Hopefully if I can stay off the phone and stay focused, I should/could have a lot of work done by the end of the week.  Tomorrow is throwing day, I play on trying to spend the day at my pottery wheel.
I've discovered that the hardest thing for my friends to understand is that I work for my self and if Denise doesn't work, Denise doesn't get paid. I may have to take drastic measures and turn my cell phone off while I'm working.

Happy Saturday!

Well I've had a good day today. I went to Atlanta Clay and got a few hundred pounds of clay and some toys. Then Mike and I had a great dinner at Joe's Crab Shack in Kennesaw, GA. 

 The place was packed and with good reason. The food is wonderful, the service was great and the entire waitstaff is just as friendly and outgoing as they get. Periodically throughout dinner certain songs come on the radio system and they all stop what they are doing and dance! Many times the customers join in. It's an absolute riot to watch.

Ok so check this out, most of the time when I'm on the road traveling outside of the area's I know, I use one of my GPS units. I have a Tom Tom and a Garmin and I have the GPS on my phone. Well today I put them to the test and used all 3 at the same time just for the hell of it. Now notice the 2 at the top of the picture, the Garmin says go right and the Tom Tom says go left... What the hell??? No wonder I get lost all the time.

 For the record, the GPS on my cell phone completely blows both of the others away hands down!

A few days ago Etsy was kind enough to feature my soup bowl with the cracker pocket that I had listed in my Etsy shop! Thanks Etsy!

 Needless to say, I'm officially sold out of them. BUT I'll be making more soon because now I have custom orders for some. Yay!

My interview

I was contacted this morning by a very nice lady asking if she could interview me for her blog. I hope I didn't let too much of my crazy show haha!


I've been busy as a beaver in a pine forest, kiln is loaded and firing right now and I'm getting backed up again with custom orders. I do have some exciting news coming up and in my usual fashion I'm not going to tell you what that is  until it's ready to go LOL Sorry, I'm a brat, but it will be awesome, I promise :o)

Oh baby!

My cousin's daughter Danielle gave birth to a beautiful baby boy March 16th, both momma and baby are doing great. Have a look at this sweetie pie.