More skulls........

Obsessiveness is a feature of my personality that I treasure and a feature that I some times hate. In my work, it can be a great benefit to be so focused on one idea. I haven't figured out yet if my skull fascination is a benefit, so to say, but I am obsessively having a great time.......

turquoise skull plaque

cross skull plaque

love skull plaque

Happiest of days everyone......

Here it is. The time has come around again for family and friends to get together and celebrate. Celebrate love.....to wish for peace on Earth........to pray for those who are suffering......to dream of the future......to live with great gusto for a few precious days. This year Captain Will, Frieda and I send so much love to you and ask that you send love back out to those in the world who are in need. Let us make the world shine this year.
Happy New Year Everyone!
May you be blessed this year and for always......

The Big Crafty

This weekend I am excited to say that I will be a part of The Big Crafty in Asheville, NC. Sunday the 4th of December from 12-6 we will be at Pack Place in the downtown area. Come on out and see us!

a little glimpse of my Big Crafty Booth......more to come!

New Pieces On Etsy

So.......I am reopening my etsy store this month. YAY! ETSY!
I love to go on there and shop and look and ogle and covet and ogle .....sigh.....I can get lost in all the fabulous art work and pottery. If you want to stop by and see my store please do! Leanne Pizio's Clay Creations
Here is a little taste of what you will see:

Skulls came a creepin...

the skulls came a creepin for Halloween but once I started....I couldn't stop. Here are the most recent ones.....

day of the dead inspired skull

day of the dead inspired skull

day of the dead inspired skull

wall of skulls

I have many ideas for these pieces. Recently, I have made up many different colors of slip to use. One slip in particular came out to be a nice peachy pink. The next skull I make will have the pink slip combined with the black......the design?.......roses and crosses of course.

The Keep It Local Show

Even with the change in plans due to rain, we had a wonderful show this year. Sunday was sunny and bright here at The Stealing Crow Farm and we had a wonderful turn out. I am sending a big Thank You out to all of you who came to support our Keep It Local Show!

Leanne Pizio and Paige Cox

Leanne Pizio and Paige Cox

Leanne Pizio and Paige Cox

Leanne Pizio and Paige cox

Leanne Pizio

Kim McEntee's Wonderfully Whimsical Dolls

Melissa Blackburn's Fused glass Jewelry

Debbie McDaniel's beautiful Pottery

Dens Goldman's Funky and Super Fun Jewelry

Kim McEntee's Dolls

Dani Keith's Colorful Cool Jewelry

Keep It LoCal Show has been moved to Sunday

Unfortunately, we have been bombarded with rain over the last couple of days. So we have chosen the rain date of Sunday the 30th from 10-4 to have our show. Please come out and see us on a hopefully much sunnier and dry day!

Keep iT LocAL PeOpLe

It is that time again......
Come on out to the 11th annual Keep It Local Art and Pottery Show! October 29th from 10-4. We would love to see you there.

LuLu and Bird Bird at the Handmade Emporium

Me and Paige Cox of LuLu Groove have come together and rented a booth at the Handmade Emporium in downtown Greensboro, NC. We are booth # 6, located at the back of the store.  We have named our booth LuLu and Birdbird. LuLu, of course, after LuLu Groove. And Birdbird after an old nickname of mine and after one of my hens whose name is Birdbird.
Every month or so the LuLu and Birdbird booth will host a theme. The goal is to change it up a bit while giving us a new challenge. For these first two months, the booth is a fun, colorful collection of pieces we both had in our studios. For December, we are working on a new theme....hope you'll stop by to see it.

What's on the shelf?......

What's on the shelf today?.......cut out vases, cut out cups, wyandotte bottles, shino cups, dotty bottles and what?........who is that?.......
Here is Grommet!
Grommet is my new little monster who arrived at the house a couple of weeks ago. Created by my great friend Denise of Haphazard Knitter, Grommet graciously adopted me as his new monster mom. Isn't he a love?

Art in other places....

A couple of years ago a friend and I were talking about another art blogger. What we loved about her blog was that she had her customers send in pictures of her art work in their homes or personal spaces. I loved seeing how creatively  her customers displayed her work. Recently, some of my customers have let me peek into their spaces to show me how they displayed my work. Thanks Susan and Rebekah!
Here are some pictures:

anybody else?
want to send pictures?
bring it on!

Trying to keep my head above water.......

as the rain keeps coming down.
It has rained here this week impossibly long. We had a brief reprieve yesterday. And then, I woke up to pouring rain this morning and my mood is matching this wet weather.
I have been working furiously on pieces for fall shows, the furniture market and orders......and this weekend I have my first show of the season. Hosted by Beth and Steve Feeback, this show is a fun, festive, colorful, whimsical show full of artists that truly step out of the box of traditional art. I am so happy to be included. (I will post pictures Sunday) If you are in the Concord, NC Saturday, please stop by and say hello.
In the mean time, here are some pictures of recent works:

Alien pieces....

Next week me and Paige Cox of LuLu Groove are taking the Alien Show down to South Carolina for it's debut at Southern Pottery. We are so excited to be in such a wonderful gallery full of amazing artists. I will post all the details of the opening soon, so for those of you who live in the Columbia, South Carolina area, keep an eye out.

Here are a couple of pieces I have been working on:
(please excuse the mess)

what I am working on today.

 

Here is the finished piece drying before going in the kiln this weekend. I think I need to make another one with a slightly bigger head.

Can''t wait to put this one together..........
Yea! for old rusted sprinklers found in the woods.........