Some favorites

First off a big thank you to those that buy our products. We love what we do and it is our hope that you love and enjoy Indian Trail Pottery as much as we do.
I will have more pottery and a few other goodies for sale this week again, stay tuned! :)

I'm going to back up a little bit and show you the rest of the pictures from our pottery open house. I took lots of set up pictures and there are some new things that I am still quite excited about, so I thought I would post them today and then move on to all the other things I want to post later in the week.
So, here we go....more on the open house......







These were just a few of my favorite pieces:

*A flower frog


*2 Unique Strawberry pots for a customer


This is a very new piece-he made one and only one at the very last minute. A juice dispenser.


*My new favorite vase....he made 2 of these and they were gone right away...needs to make a lot more.


*A large wide shallow bowl


*Mouse urn.


*A wall flower pocket.

I'm Ba-ack and Some Red Pottery For Sale!

Good Monday Morning! It is back to reality for me and my family...back to the work days, school days, laundry piles, baseball and softball practices, and to-do lists. So, before all that truely begins for me today, I wanted to start the week off with some Red pottery that I have for sale today.
We actually call this glaze rusted barn. It isn't a true red, there are a lot of brownish-black specks in it and it has brown undertones. It's quite popular for prim decorating or those that like the sienna/ earthtones.

I have two pieces available today:
First being a mini cake plate. This little gem is perfect for candies, mini cupcakes, fudge (yum), appetizers, or for whatever you wish.


She measures approx 4 4/4" high and her plate is 6 1/4" wide. I love mini cake plates....they are so fun to decorate with too! Her price is $22. I have 2 of these available only.






Next up is a small rusted barn bowl measuring 3" tall and 7" wide. The price for this bowl is $20. Again, very functional....possibilities are endless.
*All our pottery is food safe-including dishwasher and microwavable.




I have only this one available in this size, but I do have some larger sized bowls and you can contact if you are interested in those.



Let me know if you are interested in either of these little gems by emailing me at: miller5@epix.net

I'll be back later this week with some fun pictures from my weekend with some fun antiquing/junkin' finds!
Have a great day!

Shortbread Cookie Recipe

As promised, I wanted to quick get this last post in for the week before I head out the door...I'm going on a mini get-away. Yep, I am quite excited. :) Just me. and the mr. :)
There'll be a little of this....


some of this......




and....

um, back to the recipe!

These shortbread cookies were a hit....I made mine teeny tiny and they were perfect for some little nibblin, but such a yummy buttery flavor!



Classic Shortbread Cookies:
1 cup (2 sticks) cold, unsalted butter cut into 1/2" pieces
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 1/4 cup flour (may only need about 2 cup)
* Combine butter, sugar, and salt in mixer on low until butter combines with sugar but isn't perfectly smooth (1-2 minutes). Add flour (don't add all of it....I actually needed to add more butter to mine after I dumped the flour in because it got crumby, so you may only need the 2 cup of flour) on low scraping bowl down frequently until dough has just about pulled together. Don't overmix.
Refrigerate for an hour or so until dough is cool. Roll out big portions of dough on floured surface 1/4" thick. Bake at 300 for approx 15 minutes for small shapes, a little longer for larger shapes.
* I went ahead and sprinkled mine with sanding sugar BEFORE they went in the oven.
Enjoy.....


you won't be able to eat just one!


Now, I'm off to enjoy some much need R & R....but I'll be back next week. Have a lovely weekend!

Crow Crocks

Good Evening Friends! Two posts in one day....wow, I'm on a roll. I wanted to start offering pottery again on here until I have the chance to start up a selling blog or an online shop. So, in the meantime I will share random pieces here! :)

Up for your consideration is our popular prim crow crock.

I have 4 of these beauties ranging in sizes between 5-5.5" wide, and approx 3.5" tall. They are $18 each.



They are adorned with a crow holding a star in their mouth....(the crock is stamped around the crock 3 times total).

Perfectly Prim.

There is a black rim around the top of the crock...



So many uses for these beauties....



Email me if interested at miller5@epix.net. Again, I have 4 of them available now and the price is $18 plus shipping.
Thanks so much for looking.

If you didn't get to read today's earlier post, please scroll down and do so. I got to meet some blogging friends! :)
Have a great evening!
Tarrah

Who doesn't LOVE anything chocolate covered

and a farm's name of Blackberry Forest? Sounds rich, plentiful, and YUMMY! This is the story of 2 blogs that have the neatest authors! :)


The chance to meet 2 new faces that I found out follow my blog had me ecstatic.....

...it all started when I received an email from a Jill that had a friend in common with me. She told me how this friend in common,that told her about me and forwarded my blog to her, and she began following it and planned on coming to my open house. I passed along the directions to my house, and busily went about my merry way.

Then the following week, a new name; Marie, appeared in my blog comments, telling me that her and her friend were planning on also coming to our open house, and enjoyed reading my blog. Well, that would make anyone feel special, right?! :) Yay! Well, I immediately took a look at her blog and I fell in love with her cute pics, her fancy writing on her blog page, and a polka dotted duvet cover that she made for her smiley tot!

After reading more into her blog I read about her best friend Jill that was battling breast cancer, her love of Jesus, her homeschooling adventures and how a day in the life of her was more precious to her than gold. Now, who wouldn't want to meet this chick? We emailed back and forth a few times and she told me that the friend that would be coming along with her was Jill...ya know the one that emailed you last week! AHHHHHH! This is all coming together now..... :) Sometimes, I can be a bit slow! ;)

Well, the weekend arrived and early Saturday morning, these two glamorous girls come through my door and I instantly knew it was them! I recognized Marie's picture, but Jill....hmmmmm? I think I've seen her before....YES, YES I DID! She was a couple years older than me in high school and she knew (recognized) my husband as well from school!

It was a greet meeting of the minds....we instantly started chattering away about kids, crafting, a LOVE of wool that I will gently rub onto Marie, and Jill, well she already has the itch for it, and more kid talk, and crafting again. Ahhhh, I was so excited to find that I had 2 new friendly faces to see out in blog land.

I found out that they live very close to me, so we've already mentioned a get together, I also found out then that Jill also had a blog...didn't know that at first. Enter Blackberry Forest Farm!

Isn't this crazy little blog world amazing? How we form bonds, friendships, laughs and heartaches to those that we begin to know just through the words we type on a computer screen. I'm so glad for it....without it I would probably never would have met either of these 2 beautiful women, and would never have hope to meet all the rest of you out there. :)

Now, please....you MUST visit them on their blogs, give them the biggest bloggie welcome you can. You can find Marie HERE- loving her title- Chocolate Covered Chaos! And Jill will be found HERE. Marie shares so much about her bestie's battle with cancer and the fight it has been and it is quite uplifting to hear of a best friend walking right beside her and wanting to fight right along with her.....
*Colleen S. we are all doing that with you too! :) (many hugs)


Have a great Wednesday friends! :)

Pottery Palooza!

I'll get right to it and start sharing about the open house...but first, I must thank everyone that supported us here at Indian Trail Pottery. THANK YOU to everyone that came out to the open house, to everyone that emailed us, messaged us, and of course those that put a lot of hard work and sweat into the open house with us. Thank you so much, you are all part of our family and we are so blessed to have you all in our lives!

Well, the open house started Friday, and this is what I woke up to that morning....

oh it was absolutely beautiful, but YIKES!!!!! What an April Fool's Joke! LOL!!




But, with the help of my great friend Amy we got everything ready in time and the snow quickly melted by the time we opened up the doors to start the weekend.




Some of my displays got changed around at the last minute....but I'll show it all anyway.




Tried to make it look as springy as I possibly could. I had lots of flowers, cut flowering branches, and oodles of my favorite spring time acorns! :)







My blue stepback cupboard all set for display....




Ok, well I've already posted lots of pictures and don't want to bore you too much, so this is where I'll end for today. Stay tuned...this week is going to be chock full of more pottery pictures, a yummy shortbread cookie recipe (remember the sprinkled cookies last week), well they. are. GONE. Yep, we devoured all of them....they were a hit, so I will certainly share that recipe later this week. I also have 2 blogs to introduce you too, and some new sweet blogging buddies that I had the privelage to meet. It was such a touching weekend, I can't even begin to describe! So glad to have you all in my life! :)
Talk soon!