Stockpile Pop Up

We went down to Baltimore today to drop off some of my planters at the Stockpile pop up shop at Hunting Ground. The store is in an old church! 

 

New York Weekend

This weekend we went to New York. Pretty good weekend....

We saw Quicksand

I sold at Artists and Fleas on Saturday

We ate vegan Boston cream doughnuts from Dunwell Donuts

On Sunday we just wandered around Williamsburg and saw this nice sloth mural

Also a fig tree with figs on it!

We went to Sprout Home

where they also had a fig tree with figs on it!

...and the Brooklyn Flea down by the waterfront

Staghorn Ferns

I have been planning to make mounted staghorn ferns for the store for a long time, but I have never gotten around to it. Last week I finally went in the woods near my house and collected some wood from fallen tree branches to make the bases.

One has a pink, vermilion and gold pattern, and the other one has a turquoise, neon yellow, and gold pattern... I'm really happy with how they came out!

Vintage Embroidered Water Buffalo

I just love this guy, sometimes 5 photos on Etsy can be too limiting!

Do you want this Water Buffalo to come live at your house and be your friend? Well you are in luck!

David Stewart Lion's Valley pottery

I have a few thrift store White Whales, and David Stewart Lion's Valley pottery is one of them. David Stewart was a potter in San Diego in the 1970s. I absolutely love his work. I mean, I like a lot of pottery from that era, but the combination of the terra cotta with the neutral glaze, being the perfect size for cactus and succulents, and the goofy animals...I'm sold.
After finding a Gainey Ceramics planter in DC a few months ago (and walking through the store with it going, "Bob! It is my White Whale!"), I had been really holding out hope that I would find some David Stewart pottery. When we were in California, I did find one nice Stoneware Designs West piece, but no Lion's Valley- not even at the Rose Bowl!

I was very dejected.

Then last week, we went thrifting in Baltimore- and what was in the first Value Village that we walked into? (No, not the crazy man who kept trying to talk to me about how glassware "really makes you think," or the vintage Coleman ice chest that I almost bought to use as a coffee table and kind of regret not getting).

Absolutely perfect condition Lion's Valley pottery bird planter! It doesn't have the sticker, but looks

otherwise untouched. Now on Etsy, it can be yours!

These are the two pieces I have; I bought the snail on Etsy and the alligator was a present.

Here's my dresser with some pottery, and a cactus in a planter that I made:

Anyway, I want all of these animal friends to come live with me.

Bees Knees and Biscuits on Etsy

Austin Metro Retro on Etsy

Sassy Irish Lass on Etsy

Swear to Mod on Etsy

In addition to the animal planters, he also made other planters, figures, bowls, etc. 

Please note this nice opuntia in a Lion's Valley Pottery planter on The Brick House. Which is like my favorite blog ever. 

Temple of Vintage on Etsy

A La Modern on Etsy

New planters!

New planters going up on the store this morning!

 

Svpply

My cement planters were on Svpply today, pretty cool!

Here's a preview of some new ones I'm working on...