WindfallArts

Nature-Inspired and Lace Print Pottery

Reeds Spring, Missouri | 318 Sales

5 out of 5 stars (67)

WindfallArts

Nature-Inspired and Lace Print Pottery

Reeds Spring, Missouri 318 Sales On Etsy since 2010

5 out of 5 stars (67)

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  • Soup mug, bowl with handle, 16 oz capacity latte mug with turquoise, white, and dark red, handmade bohemian pottery porcelain wheel thrown

    $33.00 Free shipping

  • Large 18 oz capacity mug with vintage lace doily texture, brown and white, handmade bohemian natural cozy big coffee mug, toasty warm colors

    $33.00 Free shipping

  • Blue, green, white, and red mug with drippy ash glaze, abstract art pottery, coffee mug, food-safe, porcelain handmade pottery, wheel thrown

    $34.00 Free shipping

  • Desktop business card holder in glossy red and white, vintage floral lace print, original easel design holds standard or square cards

    $26.00 Free shipping

    • Announcement   Here you'll find beautiful things that fit into everyday life. I use textiles (some antique and salvaged), plants that I find and some I grow myself, and other textures--including glazes made with wood ash--to enliven the clay. My glazes are mixed from natural materials (not lab-produced), and thus have subtly beautiful and sometimes surprising results.

    Each piece is completely unique, since I prefer the process of making them individually from scratch and seeing what they become. All work is fully food-safe if made for eating or drinking, and lead-free, and can be washed and microwaved just like your other dishes. I use stoneware and porcelain clays and high-fire my pieces, making them very durable.

    For behind-the-scenes photos and videos, previews of items, and a peek into my creative life, visit me on Instagram (windfallarts), on facebook (Windfall Arts: Pottery by Rachel Miller) or on my blog (www.windfallarts.com).

    Thanks for visiting!
    Rachel Miller
    Windfall Arts

    Announcement

    Last updated on Dec 10, 2018

    Here you'll find beautiful things that fit into everyday life. I use textiles (some antique and salvaged), plants that I find and some I grow myself, and other textures--including glazes made with wood ash--to enliven the clay. My glazes are mixed from natural materials (not lab-produced), and thus have subtly beautiful and sometimes surprising results.

    Each piece is completely unique, since I prefer the process of making them individually from scratch and seeing what they become. All work is fully food-safe if made for eating or drinking, and lead-free, and can be washed and microwaved just like your other dishes. I use stoneware and porcelain clays and high-fire my pieces, making them very durable.

    For behind-the-scenes photos and videos, previews of items, and a peek into my creative life, visit me on Instagram (windfallarts), on facebook (Windfall Arts: Pottery by Rachel Miller) or on my blog (www.windfallarts.com).

    Thanks for visiting!
    Rachel Miller
    Windfall Arts

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    About

    • Me in my studio.
    • A pitcher in fresh clay (greenware) form. When completely dry, it will go into its first (bisque) firing.
    • Glazing day. I mix most of my own glazes and can tell you what's in them!
    • Mugs drying and waiting to be fired.
    • Little lace-embossed trays. Quite a range of colors is possible using materials that come from the earth.

    Beauty in the commonplace

    Ever since I discovered pottery, the medium of clay has had a limitless fascination for me. The idea that I could make, with my own hands, in any shape I wanted, actual usable functional wares that could be eaten and drunk from: this captured my imagination. The possibilities! One could live forever and never make all the things.

    Since then I have grown in skill and scope of thought, with practice and the help of many generous and talented people - but I still love functional wares. I'm not much interested in being avant garde or groundbreaking, when there is so much beauty to be found in everyday objects. Something new and fresh can be placed within these things, to delight the soul and revive our daily rituals.

    This is a philosophy of valuing the handmade, the little and the humble. It's drinking morning coffee out of curiously shaped mugs, eating soup out of bowls with weird divots on the side made for thumbs to fit into, putting wildflowers into organic vessels pressed with gleanings from an artists' similar outdoor expedition. It's even sometimes letting our little children have their own (breakable) pots. It's intertwining our lives with the world's offerings, seeing the worth in small and disregarded things that are nevertheless there and matter, drawing beauty out of a seldom-seen detail of the natural world.

    Everything I make is its own individual work of art, and I truly have a sense of having worked hard, from scratch, on each piece I finish. Another layer of meaning: I make some of my designs by pressing handmade vintage lace into the clay, effectively making them collaborations between me and some craftsperson of the past. I like it this way. I'm only here because of the work of many artists, past and present, known and unknown.

    I'm deeply honored that you would take the time to read about my process and philosophy. It's all bound up in each piece I make.

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    • Rachel Miller

      Owner, Maker, Designer

      I'm a midwestern girl who really only ever wanted to make art for a living. My pottery is informed by lots of things, directly and indirectly: the natural world, knitting and fiber arts, found and saved objects, and life with small children.

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    Last updated on November 29, 2018
    This is a one-woman operation. I love my work and I do it carefully; I love it when you also love my work. I make each piece lovingly by hand, one at a time, so each piece is a completely individual work of art.

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    Returns and exchanges
    I gladly accept returns and exchanges
    Contact me within: 14 days of delivery
    Ship items back within: 30 days of delivery
    I don't accept cancellations
    But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
    The following items can't be returned or exchanged
    Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
    • Custom or personalized orders
    • Perishable products (like food or flowers)
    • Digital downloads
    • Intimate items (for health/hygiene reasons)
    Returns and exchange details
    If you really aren't happy with your item, let me know. Buyer pays return shipping.
    Payment
    I accept Direct Checkout (credit card payments) and Paypal.
    Shipping
    For multiple-item orders, I will combine shipping if possible and at my discretion, and refund you any extra shipping money.

    Orders are shipped by USPS, usually Priority Mail but sometimes First Class at my discretion, within two days of purchase date (usually within one day).

    I pack orders using new or gently used materials. I purchase and use eco-friendly packing peanuts that can be reused or composted. I never buy regular (non-eco-friendly) styrofoam ones, but will pack shipments with them if I have them around and it's a choice between throwing them out and using them.