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Online Pottery Demonstrations Continue

Online Pottery Demonstrations Continue

Once a week, on Wednesdays, John sits at the wheel to demonstrate how he makes a variety of pottery items.... on Facebook LIVE!! This is a great demonstration for every one but especially people interested in art, pottery, and creativity. Whether you want to make pottery or you want understand how it's made, John will answer your questions.
There's a new item each week and Diane will take you to their gallery to show you a different pottery items, such as Japanese Tea Bowls (cups) or Ikebana (Japanese flower vase).
Each week is a little different, based on where/when John is in his pottery making cycle. . As they get closer to a bisque firing and then glaze firing you'll see what most folks don't get to see: the whole glazing process.
See you! John & Diane, Ellison Bay Pottery Studios, Ellison Bay Door County WI
PS Having a Pottery Emergency? Call or text Diane at 920-740-5859

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It's Still Soup Weather

It's Still Soup Weather

GOT SOUP?

It's not warming up enough to take soup off our dinner and lunch rotation.  We've found a few Gluten free websites which has really upped our cooking game.  Just like everyone else, we get caught in a food rut.  These two sites saved our minds during this pandemic. Best thing about these recipes is that they are so tasty that the whole family will enjoy them.  And the exotic ingredients are usually found in your grocery. Or Amazon-no joke.

 

The Dizzy Cook   Then there are the moments when the world is dizzy...but it's me instead! We both suffer from vestibular migraines and and this is better than meds! After all it tastes better.

                            

 

 

Jump In--The Flavor is Great  Soy Free Mushroom Ramen I crave Ramen, the really god Ramen.  This is checks all the boxes for me.  I can also control the salt! I'm still getting used to that.

 

A reminder:  Our soup mugs are food safe. This includes dishwasher, microwave and oven safe.  There are rules to follow:  Avoid extremes in temperature.  Don't put hot pottery on a cold surface like stone, some tiles, marble..you get the picture. Soup from the refrigerator  and heated in a microwave isn't cold enough to hurt the mug unless you put it on a cold surface.  Any other questions or comments? You know what to do.

 

 

 

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Recipes for Handmade Pottery Baking Dishes

Recipes for Handmade Pottery Baking Dishes

Here are two website suggestions that we lean heavily on.  IowaGirlEats has tasty gluten free recipes.
And then we love this website: TheDizzyCook.   These recipes are designed to use diet to minimize migraines and vestibular issues.
So- how do you preserve and protect your baking dish?  Simple.
  • DO NOT preheat your oven. Put your ingredients in the pottery baking dish and then put the full dish in a cold oven and heat together.  Trust us....We're the potters.
  • Avoid browning the top with the broiler.
  • Avoid tapping hard on the edge with utensils.
  • Clean up: Our baking dishes are dishwasher safe, but make sure the dish and lid are secure so they don't rattle (and chip). We hand-wash all our pottery

Have a favorite recipe to share?  We'd love to try it.  We're really good at adjusting recipes to fit our 'weird' food (as our loving children often mentioned!).

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French Toast on Pottery Plates and Free Pottery Shipping February

French Toast on Pottery Plates and Free Pottery Shipping February

Using pottery everyday may seem extravagant to those who worry about our pottery being fragile or easily cracked.  And you spent way too much money on that pottery - pottery should be protected from the bumps of ordinary life.
cooking with a pottery plate and pottery bowl
Here's an example of how sturdy our beautiful, ART for Everyday Pottery is.  When I married John in 1998 we merged our families- my four children (8-16),   
1 dog and 2 cats PLUS John's 4 cats and 2 dogs. We moved right before the season began and boy was there an adjustment period!
cooking with a pottery plate and pottery bowl
Dish washing was a big adjustment.  Each dish in John's home were made by John so each dish was washed individually.  On the farm (yes, I moved from a daily farm to a fruit barn!) we stacked dirty plates in the sink and filled it up with hot water and detergent.  No way could we do that anymore here in Ellison Bay.  In reality, it took the same amount of time, but for some reason this was one of those hills a couple of my children chose to die on. (metaphor). This is when I learned first hand how resilient John's plates, bowls, cups, mugs and pitchers were.  They were made and meant for daily use by real people and children.
cooking with a pottery plate and pottery bowl
Those brilliant kids broke all the rules and still couldn't chip or break those plates etc often enough to be banned from washing the dishes.  And seeing John's wince when they did cause a minor flaw helped them learn too!
cooking with a pottery plate and pottery bowl
Of course you have to be careful with any dinnerware. They will break if you drop them. But a simple shift in thinking about using and cleaning pottery dinnerware gives us an opportunity to enjoy each mug or pitcher or plate.  For me it's almost meditative, as long as I don't let my mind wander over to my 'to do' list. 
cooking with a pottery plate and pottery bowl
John welcomes dinnerware orders any time, but especially in the off season.  Few Interruptions (show storms and wood splitting) to interrupt wheel time.
pottery making on the potters wheel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Your Holiday Gift Guide for 2020

Your Holiday Gift Guide for 2020

        Need a few ideas? We've got some ideas and they all include our pottery. If this doesn't help you - remember that our Gift Cards can be emailed to you at the very, very last minute.  Don't worry about exchanges either.  Just call us. 

Mugs for Winter
Handmade Mugs

Lighting the Way All Year 

Handmade teapot

Goblets for Life

 

Handmade Goblet - Lake Superior Blue

 

Vases for Daily Flowers

It's Going to be a 'Bowling' Good Year

 

Handmade cereal bowl

 

The Answer is a Crock

Fish on the Wall

Gift Cards

$10.00 - $200.00

 

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My Family Holiday Traditions

My Family Holiday Traditions

One of my favorite family tradition is Christmas Eve 'Snack Night'. It began when my kids and I still lived on the farm in Baileys Harbor which feels like a million years ago. I wanted to do something fun for me, the only adult in the house, but it also had to fit the tastes of my four kidlets. Not easy, as you can imagine. We ended up creating Snack Night. I bought the favorite snacks of each person. Luckily for me, they liked good cheese and cut up veggies, so at least it would be 'balanced'. My son loves all things pickled, so there were pickled baby corn and Milwaukee's Kosher Dill pickles. No one wanted smoked oysters which I liked but I couldn't eat the whole tin so that was out. one daughter is an artichoke hearts in a can, so I'd buy two. I made sure that their fave crackers were there with dip and I'd spring for sparkling cider. Every one had desert suggestions which rounded out dinner. It is NOT any easier to pull together Snack Night. 

It would take a trip to the Pig in Sister Bay and to my local grocery Harbor Market in Baileys and then Egg Harbor's Main Street often had something new for me. By the time I laid out dinner our table was packed, so of course, we ate in the living room with a movie on the VCR. So 'Snack Night' was a big deal and efficient: The left-overs were used as a mini 'Snack Night' New Year's Eve so nothing was wasted. That tradition continues today so that when any or all of the 'kidlets' come home for the holidays they come home to a piece of their past, too. And to think this came about because I didn't want the usual holiday fare. Then there's Christmas dinner, but that's another story.

 

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Celebrate American Craft Week at Ellison Bay Pottery

Celebrate American Craft Week at Ellison Bay Pottery

We're kicking off American Craft Week from Oct. 4 to Oct. 13 with two new events- 

1st Event Oct 5 & 12: 'Try It Days'

2nd Event: 'Mug Makeover'


Ever want to throw clay on a potters wheel?  Our 'Try It Day' is for you: We're having a ‘Try It Day' where you can try throwing at the wheel, with a little help from resident potter John Dietrich on two Saturdays  (October 5 and 12)  from noon to 3pm.

Ellison Bay Pottery, retailers and art institutions nationwide in celebration of American Craft Week, will present ‘Try It Day’ on October 5 from noon to 3 in Ellison Bay. Open to the general public at Noon at 12156 Garrett Bay Rd, this American Craft Week event will feature a ‘Try It Day' where anyone can try throwing at the wheel, with resident potter John Dietrich. Learn More....
Ellison Bay Pottery handmade mug display
You can bring in any old coffee cup (imported, mass-produced ceramics, no chips, please) to donate (more about that in a moment) and we'll give you a 20% discount on one of John's hand-thrown Mugs-(Short, Standard and Stein!) and tea bowls
At the end of American Craft Week, we'll box up the mugs and donate them to Bargains Unlimited, a part of Scandia Village. BU has one of the best second hand stores in Northern Door and all the money raised goes to Scandia Village in Sister Bay. #ACW2019 #TRYIT #MUGMAKEOVER


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It's another Ellison Bay Arts 'Spring Art Crawl' ! May 18 and 19

It's another Ellison Bay Arts 'Spring Art Crawl' ! May 18 and 19

This Weekend!!

We invite you to discover your new treasures in our studios, chat with our resident and visiting artists, watch artists in action, enjoy refreshments and enjoy Door County in May. Satisfy your search for the new and wonderful art art at the studios of Clay Bay Pottery, Turtle Ridge Gallery/Boutique, Gills Rock Pottery, Rob Williams Studio/Gallery and EllisonBayPotteryStudios Tour the trails at The Clearing Folk School then explore the student showcase (find a class or two?) and new finds at the bookstore and gift shop. Sip coffee and nibble bakery at Door County Love Artisan Granola Stop for a refreshing cider at Island Orchard Cider.
Saturday and Sunday 10-5.

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