One day, the phone rang in Becca's pottery studio.
It was Nathan - a potter in Vermont and a total stranger at the time- calling to see if Becca would teach a clay workshop at his studio.
Two hours into the phone call, we were still happily talking . . . and three months later, we were engaged!
We decided we would set up shop on an old hill farm in central Vermont. But there was much work to be done to make it all happen.
We soon began collecting bricks for the wood-fired kiln we had both dreamed of, and spent our first five years together designing and building ourselves such a kiln, under a barn, and a timber frame workshop that today houses our studio + business, Two Potters.
We "commute" across our lawn to work, steaming mug of tea in hand, alternating hanging out with our two little kids and making pottery.
We make stoneware mugs, bowls, plates, mason jars, vases, spoon rests, fermenting crocks, and butter keepers. Our pieces are fired day + night for four full days, during which time we stoke our kiln with scrap slab wood to a temperature of 2300 degrees Fahrenheit. The ash from the burning wood makes a natural glaze on the pottery.
The kiln cools for a week before we can unload the 1000+ pieces that fill the two chambers. It takes us several months to fill the kiln, and month to complete a firing cycle - loading, firing, cooling, unloading, and readying the work for sale.
Additional pieces are fired in a small electric kiln, which is powered by solar-panels on the roof of our showroom, once the milk house for a dairy farm. The sun also powers our pottery wheels and other studio electricity needs.
Our pottery is available by visiting our Vermont studio, here on Etsy, at shows and markets in New England, as well as for custom wedding registries and dinnerware sets.
Read more about our studio in Etsy's Seller's Handbook: http://www.etsy.me/2gtiZQT
