Why I stopped making teapots and other musings on why there are pieces I refuse to make to resist being an artist who makes "Instagram worthy" art.
Journal
I spent the first few years of this business thinking that success meant having employees and a brick and mortar space. But there is a case for staying not just “small”…but tiny…and alone…that isn’t talked about enough when we talk about and think about small businesses.
This earth day was spent just listening and observing. Here are a few things that kept coming back to me. Anda a few resources to take action.
It’s that time of year again. I’ve been deep in annual Heart in Hand making and it has been filling me up in all the ways.
The indents have a story of their own. The indents in my pieces represent an active relationship between the consumer and consumed. The essence of being “closer” to that which we are putting in our bodies and voting with our dollar to buy.
Black Friday has seemingly become a similar shopping-cart-rat-race in this community of micro businesses/makers/independently owned small businesses than in the one many of us are trying to move away from.