Art by Fuzzy

Pottery, Photography, Design - Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz

Making My Own Stamps

Inspired by a post by the Createniks, I’ve embarked on my own stamp making adventure.

stamp

Like Scott and Angi, I was using rubberstamps.net to order custom, unmounted rubber stamps. They do a really nice job and I was pleased with the quality of the stamps. But I always thought it would be more efficient, and possibly cheaper, to make my own stamps.

The answer, I discovered, is the Teresa Collins Stampmaker Kit. This seems to be a re-branded Imagepac Stampmaker aimed at crafters and scrapbookers (pink and girly).

Imagepac Stampmaker Kit from Amazon.

I ordered mine from Home Shopping Network because they offered a discount and had the best price that I could find. Unfortunately, it looks like they are out of stock right now.

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Clay Studio Notes: February 2014

It took me a while to get back into the studio after Christmas break. I took some time to work on other projects, shovel snow and then I finally got everything organized and put back after the Clay Camp at WNP.

winter 2014

winter 2014

I spent some of our winter-vortex-apocalypse snow days in January and February at the wheel throwing. If you’re on Instagram you may have been following along (@artbyfuzzy). The kiln is currently cooling after a bisque fire so I should be ready to glaze in the next day or two.

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All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Clean Studio

So here’s an attempt to summarize what has been going on in the clay studio for the past two months. If you’re looking for pottery, you’ll have to look elsewhere. I haven’t made a pot in about two months. I hope I remember how…

wheel, wedging table, tools

wheel, wedging table, tools

What I’ve actually been doing is putting up some new shelves and cleaning every square inch of every surface. I started way back during Christmas Break. And right now I have a completely clean and organized studio which I hope improves my efficiency when/if? I ever start making pottery again. (Don’t worry, before I added the images to this post I got down into the studio and threw about 15 cylinders.)

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