Functional Pottery to Make You Smile
We are sisters who spent our childhood playing outdoors and making things together out of whatever materials we could get our hands on: mud, leaves, feathers, crayon, paper, twigs, string, fabric scraps, and homemade flour and water glue. We tended garden patches, pressed flowers, decorated eggs and cookies, made macrame plant hangers and mobiles, and checked one origami book out of the library so often that the librarian made us wait a month before she would let us check it out again.
We have always been particularly drawn to folk arts and crafts. People all around the world hunger for beauty. They carve and paint their homes and furniture, weave patterns into their blankets, embroider their clothes, grow flowers, and bake decorative bread for festive occasions, marrying function with beauty. The originators of folk art forms remain anonymous, but their designs were so wildly successful that they have become part of the vernacular.
Angela dreamt of illustrating children's books, Maria dreamt of becoming a potter, but neither of us could imagine ourselves running a business. Instead, we studied biology and linguistics, and spent decades teaching and raising families. We continued to spend time outdoors, and to make things -- murals, puppets, pinatas, fancy socks. People told us that we should sell our creations, but we were busy and had no time or desire to make more than we needed to beautify our surroundings and to give pleasure to our family and friends.
And then we retired, became next door neighbors, and took pottery classes together. We had a blast, but we soon realized that we would have to start selling our pottery if we wanted to have enough money or space to continue making it. Starting a business was still intimidating, but there are two of us, we are no longer as afraid of failure as we used to be, and we have learned so many things in our lifetimes that we figured we could learn to run a business, too.
Our goal has not changed: to provide people with functional, everyday items that make them smile, are a pleasure to use, and add beauty and cheer to their homes. We love making and decorating pots, we love interacting with you, our customers, and we hope it shows.
