Paint Your Own Pottery - Visit Hartstone in Ohio
Paint Your Own Pottery Is Fun
Painting your own pottery is a great activity for parents to do with kids, during holiday school breaks. Or if you're close enough, anytime! If you're near Ohio, the Original Hartstone Pottery is located in "pottery country" in southeastern Ohio. The company uses and maintains an old building which was used by another manufacturer years ago. Check out the Flickr photo gallery below, showing photos from my visit. You can see the beautiful china being made at Hartstone, in designs the company...

High Fire Kiln Pottery and a Tribute
From Potters Wheel to Kiln with FIR Creations
Pottery is an art, and High Fire Electric Kiln Pottery requires skill and a creative eye. My sister is the potter in our family, the one with the skill and the creative eye. She is a happiest when she is turning a pot on her potter's wheel, or creating something unusual yet beautiful out of clay. She has a college Degree in the Arts, and though creative at making MANY things, has a particular love for getting her hands into clay. Her name is Florence and she uses the brand name "FIR Creation...

Van Briggle Pottery
The Van Briggle Pottery has been producing gorgeous and distinctive art pottery since its beginnings in the early 1900s.  As of May 2009, the pottery in Colorado Springs, CO is now open again at a new location at 1024 S Tejon Street. Van Briggle pieces are highly collectible, and the earlier pieces are particularly sought.

Buying Roseville Pottery
Where to buy Roseville Pottery
The Roseville Pottery Company began in 1890 and sixty-four years later closed its doors in 1954. Roseville is one of the best known names in fine pottery and its patterns and colors are still well known today. The following patterns were available: Rozane, Fudji, Crystalis, Della, Robbia, Aztec, Dahlrose, Rosecraft, Hexagon, Ferella, Sunflower, Blackberry, Cherry Blossom, Wisteria, Pinecone, Fuchsia, Cosmos, Columbine, White Rose, Bittersweet, and Zephyr Lily.