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<p><strong></strong><em><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.celebrationofseagrovepotters.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Celebration of Seagrove Potters</strong></a></em> in the historic Luck's Beans Plant on Hwy 705, south of Seagrove.</p>
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<p>"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." <br /><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://anc.gray-cells.com/p_wm.html" target="_blank">William Morris</a></p>
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<p lang="en-US">".... And we will mature, and some element will become visible in our work that comes from our innermost experience in life, something that no techniques, nor any amount of historical training or courses in 'design' could ever foster, something that is our own, and unique. For if a thing is conceived in the depths of our being, we will find a way to express it: it may be crude and unskillful, but it will be honest and intelligible." <br /><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Wildenhain" target="_blank">Marguerite Wildenhain</a></p>
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<p>"The link between the hands of the maker and the hands of the user seems increasingly important to me in this world where we are often distanced from the sources of the things we rely on to sustain us."<br /><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://www.charitydaviswoodard.com/" target="_blank"> Charity Davis-Woodard</a></p>
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<p lang="en-US">"Vocation: . . .where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."<br /><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Buechner" target="_blank">Frederick Buechner</a></p>
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<p>"Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect."<br /><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi" target="_blank">Anon</a> </p>
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<p>renegade potters;<br />the <a class="offsite-link-inline" title="click to learn more about the annual celebration of Seagrove's heritage" href="http://www.celebrationofseagrovepotters.com" target="_blank">celebration</a> we share;<br />local potters all.</p>
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<div class="journal-entry-tag journal-entry-tag-post-title"><span class="posted-on"> <img title="Date" alt="Date" class="inline-icon date-icon" rel="dark" src="/universal/images/transparent.png" />Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 6:06PM</span> </div>
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<p style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite knife shapes.....the nakiri, Japanese vegetable knife.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I'm still debating whether or not to drop this site. If I do, I'll still hang on to the domain name but have it jump to <strong><em><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="http://twgray.net" target="_blank">twgray.net</a></em></strong>, which I update much more often. Anywhooooooo, I still publish my occasional newsletter, which you can sign up for at <strong><em><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="https://tinyletter.com/toms-edge" target="_blank">tinyletter.com/toms-edge</a></em></strong>, and post frequently at <strong><em><a class="offsite-link-inline" href="https://www.facebook.com/TomGraySeagrove" target="_blank">facebook.com/TomGraySeagrove</a></em></strong>. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I'm thinking about diversifying quite a bit this year, so signing up for my newsletter is a great way to be the first kid on your block to know what's happenin' 'round this joint. Some of you know I've started making kitchen knives -- already a waiting list for those -- and I'm considering making some funky knife magnets using rare earth magnets imbedded into some local woods. I'm still researching that one.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">There is nothing (food-wise) so comforting after a hard day's work (especially outdoors in the cool, fall weather) than a BIG bowl of spaghetti with meat sauce. And accompanying red wine. After glazing more pots and loading the kiln yesterday, this is how I rewarded myself. The kiln is firing today and I have another load to glaze and fire by Wednesday. Indeed, this is the most hectic week of the year for me. I have to remember to stop and watch the magnificent sunsets that abound during the fall, savor the woodsmoke from neighbor's chimney's, and enjoy the smells and tastes of seasonal foods. </p>
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<div style="text-align: center;">This is probably the shortest Tom Gray Pottery Occasional Newsletter ever :-) I have spent this week bisque firing, glazing and otherwise preparing for the Celebration of Seagrove Potters. The event begins next weekend (Nov. 18-20) with the gala opening on Friday night at 8. This is the only time of year you can visit with 60+ Seagrove potters under one roof, the old Luck's cannery roof! For more info please check out the<strong><em><a href="http://www.celebrationofseagrovepotters.com/index.html" target="_blank"> COSP web site</a></em></strong>.</div>
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<div>In other news, I'll be doing a trunk show at my sister's home in Wilmington on Saturday, Dec. 3rd. If you're interested in attending, please reply and ask for more info.
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<div>Don't forget, I will soon be dropping <a href="http://tomgraypottery.com/" target="_blank">tomgraypottery.com</a>, and it's attendant e-mail address, <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=tom@tomgraypottery.com" target="_blank">tom@tomgraypottery.com</a>. I have opted for a more inclusive domain name, <strong><em><a href="http://twgray.net/" target="_blank">twgray.net</a></em></strong>, and an e-mail address which I hope to keep until I'm too old or feeble or just no longer care, <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=tomgrayseagrove@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomgrayseagrove@gmail.com</a>. Also, if you're on FaceBook, please friend me at <strong><em><a href="http://facebook.com/TomGraySeagrove" target="_blank">facebook.com/TomGraySeagrove</a></em></strong>.
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<div>I'm sorry I don't have a recipe to share this month :-( I have to head out to the shop and glaze more pots! If you prefer to discontinue receiving my occasional newsletter, just reply stating the same, and if you have friends who might be interested, please forward this on to them. As always, there's more to come!</div>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Changes have abounded around the Gray abode over the last few months. If you recall from my last newsletter, I closed my retail shop back in July(?) In hindsight, in spite of the anxiety produced by making a drastic lifestyle change, I probably should have done it years ago. Heck, I even read Who Moved my Cheese about five or six years ago and still didn't get the message! Having closed the shop has given me some opportunities to live my life a little differently, and spend some time doing stuff other than being a potter. It was a good decision, especially having had my shop open almost six days a week since the summer of 1978. That's a long time!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> In spite of my shop closing, I am still making pots, and keeping a good inventory at the Co-Op of Seagrove Potters and Seagrove Creations. In fact, as I write this note, I'm firing my kiln in anticipation of opening it this Saturday. I WILL BE OPEN THIS SATURDAY, October first, from 10-5. Any pots not sold on Saturday will be either stuck aside for the Celebration of Seagrove Potters in November, or delivered to the Co-Op or Seagrove Creations. If you're awaiting a special order from me, it is not in this kiln load. Between a summer too hot to work as hard as usual, and an accident that kept me from doing anything pottery related for the better part of five weeks, I have not gotten to your orders yet. I will, it's just going to take a lot longer than I thought. My apologies for any inconvenience, but please, just be (even more) patient.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> For those of you that have just signed up for my Occasional Newsletter, it's no mystery, I like to cook. This summer I put away roughly 20 quarts of roasted tomato sauce for use as pizza topping, spaghetti sauce starter or for chili, etc., and the tomatoes all came from my little garden. I also froze about the same amount of basil pesto, with the help of my mom and a friend who had more basil than she could find a use for. I use it in my spaghetti sauce and it has become my favorite pizza topping, especially in our new wood burning brick oven. This summer I also came up with a sauce for stir-fry that has become my go-to recipe. I use the word recipe loosely, as I have yet to measure out any ingredients, preferring to mix just enough by taste every time. This came about after a trip to a Vietnamese restaurant in Chapel Hill called Basil and Lime, where we ate pho, and I realized how tasty basil and lime are in Asian dishes. For the sauce, mix together orange juice, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, lime juice and sriracha. Start with roughly half a cup of OJ, then a splash of the other ingredients until it tastes right to YOU. I usually thin it with a little water too, and splash it in at the end when everything is still sizzling. Try it! You'll like it!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> Now, on to some other changes, I'll soon be dropping the tomgraypottery.com domain name, and it's attendant e-mail address. I will continue twgray.net, and start utilizing <a href="mailto:tomgrayseagrove@gmail.com">tomgrayseagrove@gmail.com</a>. It is going to take me some time to switch all my calendars, contacts, documents and other stuff over, but my hope is that I'll keep twgray.net until I'm too old to keep it updated, and the gmail account as well. One of my goals this year has been to simplify, simplify, simplify. I guess one “simplify” would have sufficed, huh? I want to stay in touch with family, friends and customers, but in as simple a manner as possible. Hence the changes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> One other change, or should I say addition – I've begun to make handmade kitchen knives. My passion for cooking kind of bled over (pun intended) into making some of my own equipment. I've been collecting chef's knives for years, and am now enjoying the processes involved in making them from scratch. Hopefully I'll be offering some of them for sale next year. You can see some WIP'S (works in progress) at twgray.net.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> OK, that's all for this month's Tom Gray Pottery Occasional Newsletter. As always, if you wish to unsubscribe, just let me know, and if you have friends who might enjoy this please forward it on to them.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> Be well- Tom and Slate Gray</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I just lit Bertha...first firing in quite a while. Preheating tonight, firing tomorrow and unloading Saturday. I WILL open the shop this Saturday, God willin', and will sort through the pots the first of the week, stick some aside for the <strong><em><a href="http://celebrationofseagrovepotters.com/">Celebration of Seagrove Potters</a></em></strong>, and deliver the rest to the<strong><em> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CelebrationOfSeagrovePotters">Co-Op</a></em></strong> and <strong><em><a href="http://potteryofseagrove.com/">Seagrove Creations</a></em></strong>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 150%;">.....as in, out of.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Two weeks ago I cut my hand while deburring a new knife I had made. The belt on the belt grinder broke, sending the knife into my palm. Four hours in the emergency room, and sixteen stitches later, I am slowly recovering. My hand was so swollen when I was stitched up that as the swelling receded, the stitches no longer were tight enough to hold the skin together. The stitches have since been removed, but I am at least another week away from glazing pots for my next kiln load. For those of you for whom I'm making pieces, just keep on holding your water. I hope to have them all done by Christmas. In the meantime, when you come to Seagrove, please check out my selection at Seagrove Creations and the Co-Op of Seagrove Potters. More later-Tom</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Here are 2 pots we at the Co-Op of Seagrove Potters are collaborating on for the COSP auction in November. Each of us has 1/10 of the pot to decorate in our own styles. David Fdernandez of <a class="offsite-link-inline" title="Stoneware and Inn" href="http://seagrovestoneware.com/" target="_blank"><strong><em>Seagrove Stoneware</em></strong></a> threw the pieces.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Collaborative pieces will be avaialable at the <strong><em><a class="offsite-link-inline" title="lots of fun, and great pots" href="http://www.celebrationofseagrovepotters.com/" target="_blank">Gala</a></em></strong> on Friday night.</p>
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