Disney is here!!

We are so lucky to have Disney ceramic pieces in the studios. Stop by and check out our new shipment. I can't wait to start some samples.

Holiday Hours

We will be closing at 2pm on Christmas Eve and we will re-open at 10 am Saturday at the San Jose studio and at 12pm Saturday at the Edgewood studio.

Thank you for spending your time with us this year and we can't wait to show you what we have planned for 2010.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
Katie and the Doing Dishes staff

Gift Certificates

Still need to get that special someone something special? Painting pottery is relaxing, fun and you create a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork. Buy your special someone a gift certificate to Doing Dishes Pottery studio. This New Year, come and create with us.

Gift Certificate Special:
Buy a $25 Gift Certificate (or more) and you will receive a $5 certificate for yourself. Just our way of saying Happy Holidays.

Breakfast with Santa

Want to make this plate and meet Santa Claus?

Join us for our 2nd Annual Breakfast with Santa. We are so blessed to have the big guy joining us for a second year. Santa will arrive at 10am and we will have breakfast. Then, he and your child will paint a handprint plate. Don't worry, there will be time to tell Santa what you want for Christmas, so bring your list. Reservations are required as we only have a limited number of spots and a limited amount of time with Santa.

These are some of the plates that we made last year. We had so much fun, please join us this year. You are not going to want to miss this.

Dates: December 12th, 10am at the Edgewood location

December 19th, 10am at the San Jose location

Cost: $35 per platter (includes platter, studio fee and breakfast)

New Moon Night

Don't you love these books!!???! Well, if you didn't know, the New Moon movies comes out on November 20th and we are throwing a party. Join us that night, from 6-8pm, and paint New Moon related items. We will have trucks (think Bella's), apples, motorcycles, wolves, moon boxes and lots of samples. Along with pottery, we will have New Moon trivia and snacks. At the end of the night we will raffle off our samples and then I am heading to see the movie. Join us and it's sure to be a good time.

Fall technique class

Join Melissa this Friday night at the Edgewood studio and learn how to make this fabulous fall serving plate. Class includes the plate, studio fee, stroke by stroke instructions and 3 new techniques.

Please call and reserve your space as we only have a limited amount of plates. Cost is only $30.

We have been BUSY!

Busy changing up the studio, the party selections, the front windows, the classes, the calendar... the list goes on and on!

Here are our new front windows

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Edgewood looks great, thanks Melissa! ..................and San Jose looks great too!

We are proud to support the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer. In support of the foundation, we are holding a "Pick Your Pink" contest for the entire month of October. Stop in and vote for your favorite new pink. I have ordered all they make, so you, the customer gets to choose which one will hang on our color wall. We will be drawing names to win prizes, so vote today. We are also selling breast cancer ribbons that you can paint and we will fire. For every ribbon we sell, we will donate $1 to the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer.

As many of you are aware, Doing Dishes belongs to the CCSA (Contemporary Ceramics Studio Association) and every year I attend our annual convention and we hold an auction to donate money to the Vera Bradley Foundation. This year, we raised over $30,000 in just one night. It was amazing. Heidi Floyd is the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer’s Development Ambassador mentions the CCSA in her blog (which I encourage all of you to follow). There are so many great people out there raising money and making a difference. We are proud to help and to try and find a cure.

I'm back and full of ideas

I got back late last night from our annual CCSA Pottery Convention. I am exhausted, but super excited about all the new things that I learned and all the new ideas I have in my head. Here are just a few new things that will be coming shortly:

Pumpkin candy bowl workshop (early October)
New party packages
New pieces coming as soon as they process my orders
New Disney pottery, coming in November
New design area with my Cricut, a computer and tons of new ideas
Pick Your Pink (new pink paints to choose from) in October
Adopt a puppy in November
Breakfast with Santa in December
Holiday workshops for kids, during winter break

I'll keep you posted. But, check back often or sign up for our emails and you will be the first to know.

Where did the summer go?

I can't believe that the summer is over and the kids are back to school. Here are some shots of our summer campers from our Summer Workshops. I think everyone had a blast, most of all the kids at the watermelon bowl painting. They got to spit seeds and we had a contest. It was hilarious.



Here are a few of our campers for Clay Day. It's always fun to play in the mud and make something out of a ball of clay.


I had to throw a few samples in to show you what people have been up to. I love this plate, so simple, but so stinking cute.

I made this with my new Cricut. I seriously think the thing could change the world. Everyday I am finding more and more uses for this thing. Come in and see what it can do, you'll be AMAZED.

What a cute sentiment. I just had to take a picture of it. One of our gentlemen customers made this for his wife. How sweet is that?

What a beautiful wedding platter. So simple, but so cute that any bride would love it.

This is a honey and apple set made by one of our customers for Rosh Hashanah.

Another reason why I love the glass fusing. The customer came in and needed something for the next day. She did the glass hand print of her daughter, we fired it that night and she picked it up the next day. Glass is perfect if you are in a time crunch and can't wait to get pottery back. we love glass!

Triangle plates are hot right now. These are a few examples of what our customers have been doing with them.

Now that school is back in, we are closed on Mondays.

Check out our website for a new calendar feature. You can still click the link and download or print out the pretty colorful one, but in a pinch you can just glance at the one on the site.

Katie and Melissa leave for our annual CCSA pottery convention on Friday the 11th. We are super excited to see all the new things that the suppliers have for us and we are equally excited to meet with our peers and get all excited about what the industry as a whole has for us. Check back soon for lots of new goodies and exciting fun stuff.

New Items just arrived!!!

I love the new funky line, so I had to get the whole set. It is here and on the shelves, but beware...They won't last for long.

This canister is just calling out to me to be painted like the Flintstones!

We got new ice cream boxes, cupcake boxes, ice cream cone bowls, ice cream dishes and more.

I love the shapes and heights of these vases....I'm thinking back to school teacher gifts.

Ladies Night is tomorrow.

Ladies Night is tomorrow, Thursday, evening. There are about 10 spots left, so call and reserve yours today. Call a few of your girlfriends and see if they want to come along. By this time of the summer, everyone needs to get out and spend some time away from the kids (including me).

Custom tile job

Here are some pictures of a custom tile job that was painted by Cliff Duch of the architecture firm of Cronk and Duch. I think it turned out awesome. He spent a lot of time and artistic skills on this project.

New paint on the walls at Edgewood

So, my daugther, Reagan, has been with her Grandmother and cousin all week and I just knew I was going to get a ton of stuff done. But, this is all I managed to acomplish this week (well, besides paying the bills, paychecks, helping customers, ordering new and fun stuff, unboxing the new and fun stuff, organizing the San Jose studio a little and summer camp)

New on Facebook

We are now on facebook, so click on our link to the right and become our fan.

Blast from the past

To all of you who were born in the late 70's and 80's, you will appreciate how cool painting pottery is, now that the My Little Ponies are painting pottery!

Father's Day pieces

I wanted to post some pictures of what people have been painting for Father's Day, so here are a few.

This one is not a gift for my husband, but it has been copied a bunch for the Dad's out there.


One of our tween customers painted this for her dad, so sweet!


" Just let them paint it the way they want, then smack a handprint on it to finish it off" That's what I always say and also what I do with my daughter.

This is actually one of the gifts that my Reagan made for her dadda for Father's Day, but shhhh, don't tell him.

More Summer Samples

Here are some more samples of our Summer Workshop projects. We are so excited for camp to start on June 15th, hope to see you there!

This is our Summer Fun bowl, painted to look like a watermellon. We will paint it, then eat watermellon and have a seed spitting contest outside. Should be fun and messy at the same time.

This is our Pizza Party plate that we will be painting. This plate is only available during summer, so paint it while you can. After painting, we will travel next door to Leo's Pizza place for make-your-own-pizza, breadsticks and drinks. (Price of food is included in the summer camp fee)

This is an example of our princess mirror plate, you could also do a pirate, cowboy/girl or an astronaut.

Check out our Webkinz food bowl class and make 2 bowls for your favorite furry friends.

Feed the birds and make this hanging bird feeder or bird bath.