We hope you and yours have a lovely, relaxing, and bright holiday break. Our studio is closed from December 22 – 28 to spend time with loved ones and relax after a very busy season making pottery for under your trees! Business as usual (production, shipping, responding to emails, et all) will resume on December 29th. If you ordered ceramics after our guaranteed holiday delivery cut-off (December 1), your order will ship promptly upon our return to the studio. Our store hours for the remainder of the season are as follows:

Wednesday + Thursday Dec 22 + 23 : regular hours 11 am – 6 pm.

Friday + Saturday Dec 24 + 25 : closed.

Wednesday + Thursday Dec 29 + 30 : regular hours 11 am – 6pm.

Friday Dec 31 : open 11 am – 3pm.

Saturday Jan 1: closed.

Pigeon Toe has a small feature in December’s copy of Food & Wine magazine. Yes, we do indeed offer private wheel-throwing lessons. We won’t be accepting new students until the new year, but if you’re interested please send us an email and we’ll put you on our wait list.  More information on classes can be found here.

Thank you to everyone who purchased from us last month – 5% of our sales went to Doctors Without Borders to help with medical care in Haiti, and around the world. Want to do more? You can donate personally here.

We just received a large shipment of beautiful succulents to add to our ever-growing selection of plants over in our Etsy shop. I’ll be potting up a bunch of my pots  this weekend to sell there, so keep an eye out! I’m currently recuperating from a kiln mishap that left me with a bad burn on my hand, so there’s not much for me to do except play around in the office with the plants and pots till I heal. Tonight I potted up this ‘little jewel’ in one of our cast kerr jars - how adorable does it look sitting on my windowsill? We ae very excited to expand our offerings beyond airplants and hope you enjoy the new selection as much as we do.

We’re working our toes off to launch a new collection of pieces specifically geared toward the garden in early September. We’re combining luscious leather cording with porcelain in new designs, glazes and textures. The pieces will make their exclusive debut in an online trunk show the first week in September at Olio United – so mark your calendar, we promise it will be worth your while!

Lastly, and speaking of, we will have specially discounted products at Olio’s booth this Sunday, August 16th, at the Bargain Hunting event (“the mother of all clearance sales”) here in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom. It looks to be an amazing selection of local stores and designers wielding irresistible deals on their products – don’t miss out if you’re in the city!