Last weeks installment of This American Life had a fabulous piece by David Rakoff called Martha My Dear. Rakoff visits his dream job in the crafts department at Martha Stewart Living magazine. He wonders (as i occasionally do) if his hobby became his job, would it still be fun?

He says, “On some level me giving someone something I’ve made is almost the equivalent of your fitness nut friend coming into your living room dropping and giving you 25 and then shouthing HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Who’s really gotten the gift in a transaction like that. You tell me. ”

If you make things- listen to it. If you dont- listen to it. Its only 11 minutes.

I love the way this combines contemporary design sensibilities with the decorative vernacular.

Eva Zeisel is continually intrigued by what she calls her “playful search for beauty.” A person of delightfully defiant spirit, the designer was just beginning her career when she declared war on the fashionable avant-garde. “I didn’t accept the purism of modern design,” she says. “In my definition, if it gave beauty to the eye, it was beauty.”

www.dwr.com/designers/?designer_id=7887&CMP=EMC-Q62L54717042

I spent last weekend at the 11th Annual Audubon Center Craft Show in Falmouth Maine. It felt really nice to do a craft show so close to home… and I met a bunch of great people I will actually see again. Speaking of seeing again… I ran into some folks that I was super happy to see. One was our awesome realtor Charlie McBrady. The others were friends from long ago Lisa and Chuck Blier and their little girl Sophie (who i met for the first time). I also saw some great work from Maine Artists Ingrid Bathe, Stephanie Sersich, and Kara Romano . All of the photos below were taken by my long lost friend Chuck Blier. Thanks Chuck!

cups.

lisa and sophie.

and me.

Just finished this Candleabra for the show at Northern Clay Center. It is approx. 2′ in length.

Wow what a genius my husband is ….he just set me up with this new website so that i can manage it myself. I plan on keeping my web site very up to date with all kinds of goodies. Please keep checking in….i am still updating everything. More coming soon….

(the husband)