Friday, December 18, 2009

Christmas Trees and Christmas Cups

Today I purchased my first live Christmas tree. I don't like the cut live trees as I once visited a Christmas Tree farm in the western NC mountains and met several workers there... that were being treated as slaves, living in substandard housing, isolated, etc... it was horrible. That experience made me promise to not have a live cut tree--- so I purchased this one and will give it to friends when Christmas is over.
It was a bargain! I think it's absolutely gorgeous. It has lights which are hard to see in the pic. Oh well...
Most of the ornaments are gifts from my parents over the years. Some are labeled with my name and the year on them; a few are made by me when I was a child. It's a beautiful tradition.
This is my smaller tree. It looks great surrounded by pottery. With that said, the pottery is for sale. Don't have time to put it on my etsy store, but if you are interested in a piece, let me know in the comment section. I'll ship the piece(s) with red and green tissue paper if you'd like.

A closeup of the pottery from the most recent firing. All are not for sale; some I'm not ready to say goodbye to.
Four on the left... and-
Four on the right. I also have a bunch more teacups in the kiln as I write; they will emerge from the kiln on Sunday afternoon. :)
Christmas is coming! I'm grateful.

2 comments:

Gary's third pottery blog said...

little cuties under the tree :)

Linda Starr said...

Your tree looks so beautiful with your cups surrounding it, happy holidays.