Alpharetta Arts Street Fest, Inman Park Festival,

Canton Festival of the Arts, Edisto Island Arts &

Crafts Festival, Buckhead Spring Arts & Crafts

Festival, Virginia-Highland Summerfest (Best in

Show: Clay Category 2011!), Grant Park Summer

Shade Festival, Pine Log Arts & Crafts Festival,

Rose Lawn ( 3rd Place: Fine Arts 2010!),John C.

Campbell Fall Festival, Oakhurst Arts & Music

Festival, Applie Annie,

Art Festivals where I met my Awesome Customers!

North Georgia Art Ramble, Georgia Clay Council

Christmas Show & Sale and countless Farmers Markets

One of many items on my to do list was to create an identity for my

pottery studio. I live in the Salacoa Valley and that seemed good enough

for the name of my studio.

1st FaceBook IDAfter I posted this image on FB, several people

commented that they would like to put in an order

for a hookah.

My FB Page became a critical marketing tool. I

found that it was a very effective tool for building

momentum prior to a show. I would post new

photos of work in progress or fresh out of the kiln

and the enthusiastic response on FB was often an

omen of great sales. You can’t beat social media!

My 2nd FB IDThis picture replaced my first

FaceBook ID. Something about the

positive / negative space in the

photo attracted me. This was also

the first time I played with my logo

to adapt it to different situations.

Of course, I am stacking my pottery

again as I photograph the pieces.

Early pics of my work

For some reason I just like to

stack pottery for my pictures.

Emoticon Mugs!

I was looking at the patterns in one

of my children’s garments and I saw

a combination of hearts, peace signs,

and skull & cross bones. That inspired

me to create mugs with iconic images

that are part of our popular culture.

This was a huge seller for me. I could count on great sales

at any show when I had a good stock of these mugs. They were hard to keep in

stock and that was a good problem to have.

This pic sold some cannisters!

The AJC did a story about me in the

Sunday Living & Arts section. It was just

after I had won Best In Show in the Clay

Category at Virginia Highland Summerfest

in 2011. I was on the front cover of that

section and this shot was on an inside

page. They did me right when they wrote

that story. I had people coming up to me

for more than a year hoping to buy my

work and specifically the cannisters with

the glaze shown in the photo. There is

nothing like some good press to help your

business along!

Help! There’s a Fire!

I have a friend who is a

fireman and I made this

mug with him and his fellow

fireman in mind. I used a

commercially prepared red

glaze for the interior and it

gave the perfect effect.

First Batch of Emoticon Mugs

In my first attempts at this

mug I applied an additional

color for extra POP. They

looked great but were too

time consuming to make so

only a few were made.

Hey Honey!

We raise honey bees and what

you see is a batch of wildflower

honey. I impressed the shape of

a hexagon pattern on these

lidded honey cannisters and they

really sold well.

The NICE Studio

My first studio was in our

basement and it really

was sad. My wife finally

convinced me to move to

this space which had

tons of windows a view

out on our pasture. Much

nicer!

LeatherhardI liked the way the handles

looked all in a row so I

snapped this pic. These

mugs were drying to reach

the leather hard stage so

that I could then give them

their first firing.

Let the Reformation Begin!I made these mugs for my friends

at Reformation Brewery. They

were raising money with some

crowd funding and these were

part of an upper tier giveaway if

you donated a certain amount of

money. They raised their money

and are building a successful

brewery in Woodstock, GA. Is

their beer good? Yes, it is

delicious!

Thank you Roselawn Arts and Crafts Show!

In 2010 the fine folks

judging the show gave me

a third place prize. Always

nice to get recognized.

Prize money makes me

happy too!