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It’s Happy Love Your Pet Day! Make sure to give them all a hug today!

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5 days ago

Monday is President’s Day! School’s out, but we’ll be OPEN from 1 to 5 PM! Bring the kids and paint with us!

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5 days ago

Okay, so we may not be able to get this guy in the studio, but we DO have lots of great pottery to paint!

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2 weeks ago

Tonight we celebrated sweet little Eva’s 7th birthday with a pottery party! What a wonderful group of kids and parents sharing in the fun! Thank you for creating with us!❤🎨 … See MoreSee Less

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2 weeks ago

I see this so often in the studio. Let the children be children. It’s a fleeting time so allow them to create their most perfectly imperfect art. You’ll cherish it forever 🥰Process versus Product: Written by the CCSA Kiln Goddess
For studio owners, letting a kid paint how they want to paint is as natural as painting itself. We want them to enjoy the PROCESS of painting. Yes, if you give them choices they will choose. And there are stages in life when you know little girls will pick pink and purple and rainbow and unicorns and mermaids over anything. Whatever you give them, the painting will be done. It’s all about the process of painting and they LOVE the process even more than the end result. For adults, it is often more the PRODUCT that is important. It’s about the handprints matching the curtains. It’s about the colors and the shape. It’s the “do you have a spoon rest that is slightly longer/wider/shorter/thinner than this one?” They decided what they need and how they need it to look before they stepped in the door. I think it’s about abundance. Kids assume they have all the time in the world to paint all the things in the world in all the ways in the world, so why not have a blue-faced mermaid with pink hair now? The next one can be rainbow with speckled blue stripes, after all. But adults. They assume they only have one shot to make the PERFECT item. Do you know how much pressure that is? It’s an awful lot for a butter dish to live up to. I’m not sure when this happens. When you pay for it all yourself? When you realize you can’t go anytime that you want? (Secret for grown-ups: you still CAN. It’s true.) Maybe it’s when you start trying to make every item in your life spark joy that you lose all your joy. It’s so hard to be grown up and also be willing to screw up. Getting things wrong is a big part of learning, and it’s very hard to remember that. It makes my heart hurt for them. They get their PRODUCT back and they start looking for the flaws. They see brushstrokes and imperfections that no one else will ever notice. But a kiddo getting her green-blue-orange-yellow-faced princess? She knows it is BEAUTIFUL, and her face lights up. And she can’t wait to start working on her next one.
Written by the CCSA Kiln Goddess, CCSA Today. … See MoreSee Less