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Read more about A Bit Off Center, our pottery, and things that inspire us to create.
We’re Featured!
Today, we delivered some new pots to Inkstone Gallery in Winterville. Although, we had a few pots at the gallery in Peaceful Meadow,we wanted a brighter color for the lengthening spring days. And, we are featured on the Inkstone Facebook Page and in the inkstone...
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Resources or Distractions
There are so many pottery resources. It is a very generous community –workshops, books, blogs, YouTube Videos, Websites, Galleries, Open Studios, classes, guilds. So much sharing. One could get sucked into the vortex of reading/talking/learning about pottery and...
Business Lessons
I don’t have an art degree. And, although I don’t have a business degree, when I got my ‘real world’ job, I had to learn business. So I read – a lot. I am surprised that so many of the things I read in business literature can apply to art (specifically my pottery...
Intentional Pursuit
"You can choose what you do, but you can’t choose what you like to do." Grechin Rubin I exercise but I wish I liked to run. I have tried to like it. I got better at running for a while but I never developed a love for it. Sometimes I say I don’t like...
Intentional Focus
I really enjoy everything about pottery (well, cleaning kiln shelves and recycling clay are not at the top of my list). Since setting up my own studio, I have had to reconcile a few things in my mind – I am a real potter even if I use commercial glazes and fire to...