You all are going to LOVE this! Julia McNair from Do It Yourself Crafts in Birmingham, Alabama, has offered to do a Precious Metal Clay Workshop for you all while she's here for the Mini Convention! This is so easy and you'll have some really cool silver jewelry you made yourself!!! This stuff starts off as a clay, but when it's fired, the piece becomes 99.9% silver! It's amazing! We'll be running 30 minute sessions with up to five people in each session. You will recieve one packet of clay which will make either 1 large pendant, 2 medium pendants, 4 small pendants, OR 1 medium and 2 small pendants. If you would like to purchase additional packets of clay, you are welcome to do so! Call 820-9212 for reservations! Check our the cool samples below!!!!!

Saturday, April 26th
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Cost: $40.00 per person

A $20.00 non-refundable deposit is required for reservations!!

Yeah! Finally, a photo! Here is a picture of a message board. Ours will be slightly bigger and rectangular shaped...8" x 12", but you get the idea! You can go down to the next entry to see the other project! Hope you like them! Don't forget to sign up early...we're already starting to fill up!

Have a great day!

Julie

Spring Break Camp!

O.k., O.k., I'm sorry we didnt' get pictures up sooner...a few technical difficulties! In fact, I still don't have the pic of the message board working right yet. However, here is the "OH MY GOSH" so cool plaque we are doing. This this is so much fun, and it's why this camp is two days! So, the first day, we're going to do all the background colors...with fun writers...only one coat!!!! I know you're all excited about that. Then, we'll fire it. When you come back the second day, we'll paint black over the top, let it dry and the scratch out our design. By the way, this picutre was taken in my bedroom...do you like the color??? Some call it day-glow, I call it FABULOUS!!!

Anyway, the message board is big...it's 8 inches x 12 inches of fun times. We'll be using a metal paint THAT DOES NOT WASH OUT OF YOUR CLOTHES!!!!!!! So, WEAR OLD CLOTHES!!! I don't want hate mail from angry moms...there's nothing worse than an angry mom! We'll also be making fun magnets for out boards using all kinds of fun stuff. So, if you have any fun small objects you would like to use on your magnets, bring them with you!!

Oh, I forgot to tell you one more thing! We have a new funtabulous friend joining us for camp this year. Her name is Lindsey Urban and she is SO MUCH FUN!! You all will LOVE her!

Well, that's all for now, but I'll post the picture of the message board when I get it!

Be Good!

Julie

Fun times in Alabama

Hi Everyone!!

Well, we're spending our last night in Alabama tonight. We have had SO MUCH FUN with our friend Julia and her family. We have eaten AMAZING food and have seen some really cool stuff! Julia's studio is a blast and so are her staff and customers! We got to attend her ladies night and met some really fun women!

So, the food...don't know if any of you have ever eaten lemon ice box pie...wow...that is about as sweet as it gets. We've been teasing Julia telling her now we understand why she has so much energy. Between the pie and the sweet tea, she's revved up! We have had some really good stuff...seafood...ahhh...the seafood!

While we will be sad to say goodbye, we're excited to come home and see y'all...just wanted you to have a taste of the South! Hope you had a great week!

Julie & Robin

Reminders and Other Fun Stuff

Hi everyone!

Well, Robin and I are off to Birmingham, AL, this next week. We'll go to Kansas City Monday and then fly out early Tuesday morning. We can't wait to go as we're visiting our awesome friend Julia. We'll be excited to tell you all about it when we get back. That said, On the Pot will be closed Monday, Jan. 21 - Friday, Jan. 25. Our lovely employees will be opening the studio back up Saturday the 26th and we'll continue on with regular hours then!

Next thing...We'll be making this really cool piece in our next class on a dinner plate. We'll use sea sponges to create this fun design just in time for Valentine's Day! The class will be Sunday, February 3rd, 2:00-4:00pm. The cost is $20.00 plus tax. E-mail us to sign up while we're on vacation, or you can call when we get back!

Last thing, We're really excited about February's Ya Ya Night. It will be Friday, Feb. 22nd. This month we will be celebrating A Night at the Oscars. Study those nominees and decide who will win because we will be filling out ballots at Ya Ya Night. Once the awards are over the following Sunday, we'll tally the votes and see who got the most right choices. The winners will recieve a fun prize when they pick up their pottery! Sign up begins, Tuesday, Feb. 5th at 11:00am!

For those of you who have never been to Ya Ya Night, it's our ladies night that we done once a month. You call or e-mail for reservations and then you pay your $8.00 studio fee for the night ahead of time as your deposit. We provide appetizers and you bring whatever you want to drink. We give away prized, do trivia, and have tons of fun. You can get a group together or come by yourself and make new friends. It's a great event!

Glass Class THIS SUNDAY!!

We are so excited to be having our first class of the new year this Sunday afternoon! We'll be doing these three awesome glass fusing projects. We know you'll love them! The class is Sunday, Jan. 13th, 2:00-4:00pm. Call us at 820.9212 to reserve a spot. We base future glass classes on the response to this one.

We have a new baby!!!

Emily Walker, our very first employee, had her cutie pie little baby Saturday! We're so happy for her and Tait! We love them both and are so excited to watch this amazing little one grow! You can check out Laykin Nicole Walker at http://www.srhc.com/babypics/Baby/nursery.htm
Just click into the nursery and click on Laykin W.

Happy New Year!!! We hope the coming year proves to be the best yet for you and your family! We are really excited to get the year started at On the Pot! We'll be expanding our glass fusing with classes and tons of new samples. We sure hope you'll come try it out. I think some of you will find you like it even more than painting pottery...Julie hasn't come to that point, but Mom is WAAAYYYY loving it!

We are also anxiously awaiting our upcoming vacation. We'll be heading to Birmingham, Alabama, to visit our AWESOME friend Julia and her studio, Do-it-Yourself Crafts. You can check out her studio at: http://www.doityourselfcrafts.typepad.com/ . The cutie pie on Santa's lap is Mr. Henry...one of our favorite kids on the the whole planet.

Robin and I are always looking for new ideas to try out at On the Pot. Please, feel free to e-mail us at downwithotp@yahoo.com if you have any ideas or things you would like to see us do. Having said that, please don't be upset if we don't implement all of them. While we like to think we are superwomen, it has been shown over and over that we are not.

We have set a few New Year's Resolutions for 2008...maybe if we type them here, we will actually do them:

1. Clean the office and keep it that way...it could happen.
2. Post on our blog more than once every two months.
3. Become The Biggest Loser Workout DVD superstars...it's not pretty right now, but it WILL
get better.
4. Chaucer the cat has also vowed to work out more.
5. Re-cycling: On the Pot is attempting to go greener...at least more so. Our new studio
re-cycling center is coming very soon!

We hope to see you all very soon! You all make our lives so great! Again, Happy New Year1
Julie & Robin