The Pot Stop Product Placement Intermission Don’t Try This at Home Post Note: Sixteen Hands is a twice-yearly artisan studio tour that takes place throughout the countryside of Floyd, Virginia. My home along the Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the four tour locations and features the pottery of my son Josh Copus and his [...]
This year’s Thanksgiving season began with the traditional ‘over the river and through the woods’ drive to Zephyr Farm (1 mile) where my son Josh, my husband and I had turkey with all the fixins, including my friend Jayn’s award winning mock mince meat pie that I wait for all year long. At our gratitude [...]
Along with turkey and spending time with family and friends, Thanksgiving at our house means getting ready for the fall weekend Studio Tour for Sixteen Hands, of which my Asheville Potter Son Josh is a member. This year Josh’s guest artist is Melissa Weiss (pictured above setting up in what used to be my living [...]
My Asheville Potter Son Josh is due home from Tasmania, Australia today.
The Sixteen Hands Studio Tour, whether taking it or hosting it, is a great way to meet interesting people. As one of the stops on the tour, having our house open all weekend is kind of like having an all weekend party. For tour-goers, it’s fun to see the potter’s studios in their country home [...]
Our first tour-goers for the Sixteen Hands Artisan Tour came on Friday, the day before the start of the tour. It was a small group from a ceramics class being taught at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts. Local potter Sarah McCarthy came up on the front porch and called out my name. She was [...]
While others were holding high tea parties in honor of the royal wedding, I was preparing snacks for 100 plus and spiffing up the place for the weekend artisan tour of Sixteen Hands, of which my Asheville potter son Josh is a member. Josh isn’t here but his pottery is, along with the work of [...]
“The reason people need this is the same reason they need to get out in nature or visit a farm. To reconnect. When people come here, they get to meet the artists; they like that. I’m in here being as real as I can because people are buying a part of my life.” ~ Josh [...]
“Your dancing feels cooler than it looks when you’re in a giant pint glass costume,” said my Asheville potter son Josh who was looking at pictures of himself break-dancing at the Asheville Idiotarod, a 5K race for awesomeness done while pushing a tricked-out shopping cart. Josh is a whiz with foam rubber. He’s a Wedge [...]
The show must go on! Even though I’m here in Massachusetts helping to care for my mother, the Sixteen Hands Fall Studio Tour is going on this weekend in Floyd, Virginia. Because my Asheville Potter Son Josh is a member, one of the studio stops is at my house. This is Josh’s guest artist Joey [...]
I didn’t know either until my Asheville potter son Josh, who just got back from a multi-country trip to Europe presenting at woodfiring conferences, told me he was invited to go there next year to work with a potter and be a presenter at the next year’s conference, to be held in Tasmania. “Are there [...]
_________________________________ I stole this photo from my Asheville Potter son’s (center) Facebook page. More playing Wordless Wednesday HERE.
Note: The above are a small sampling of my Asheville Potter Son Josh Copus’s collage journal pages. You can read more about his 20 custom made leather bound collage books and view more photos HERE. More playing Wordless Wednesday are HERE
As the newest member of the bi-yearly Sixteen Hands Artist Tour, my Asheville Potter Son Josh Copus came home to Floyd this weekend to show his work in the house where he grew up. My kitchen and living room were transformed into a galleries, complete with track lights and a steady flow of pottery lovers [...]
“Wow. This pot is big. I bet we could fit Bryce in here,” I say to my son Josh as my house and yard are being totally redesigned with pottery in mind. We got the lawn mowed and the dog’s hair cut. The grill is ready to fire up. The sign’s about to be put [...]
20 custom-made leather bound journals, some bulging to a height of half a foot, tell a visual story of a personal evolution. “I don’t think of my life as more interesting than someone else’s but I took the time to record it in an interesting way. The themes are universal,” said 30 year-old Josh Copus, [...]
Uncle Josh that is, and Bryce said it more than once when his uncle was in town last week and went with me to baby-sit. After 2 ½ hours of ball tossing, motorcycle riding, raisin eating, circle drawing … guinea pig holding, wrestling, tickling, book reading and more, Bryce wore himself out enough for a [...]
