Tripod bowl

This is a salad/pasta bowl I made. It sits on 3 cones.

Coffee Urn

This is a coffee urn that was a special order. It features under glaze decoration. The customer has several mugs with similar design patterns and colors.

Coffee Mugs

The year 2010 was a good year for mug sales. This tripod mug was made from slab construction.



The mugs I have at the Jolts and Juice Co. store in Caldwell Idaho are a way to bring interested viewers to my web site, tmbceramics.com.

Some of the mugs are small, holding about 8 ounces of coffee or tea. I prefer to use small mugs. The beverage tends to be warmer, since it is refilled more often, and I like the light weight feel in my hands.



I like the texture on the mugs. I like to feature fun shapes that breaks up the texture with under glaze decoration.

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Hawaii - Day Ten

This is on Likelike Hwy. We were headed for the other side of the island again.

I love this garden sculpture. Carved stone!

So much green everywhere!

This plant is a shefflera. I had one of these for a house plant for several years. I got tired of the plant and it was getting big. I didn't know it was going to get these cool beans on it!!

Banana tree.

We pulled into this nursery. It was not a traditional nursery. The manager showed us his project. He was working on a system for raising Talapia. He has to desalinate the water, then the water is used to hold fish at different stages in growth. When the water needs to be filtered it is fed into a system that takes the "dirty" water and it is used for Hydroponic plantings. The nursery will have tomatoes and other plants, plus will sell the mature talapia. The water will be filtered and recycled! We really enjoyed the tour.

These mountains look primative.

This is called China man's Hat.

We went to Wainimai Bay which is famous for surfing.

There is a sharp incline of the sand.

I saw this picture in the paper. It shows a princess with tatoos. I have seen a lot of young guys with similar tatoo patterns, on one side of their chest and back and arm.

These young surfers didn't know that I photoed them.

We drove back to our hotel through the Pineapple Ranch. Miles of fields!

Hawaii - Day Nine

This is our Pre-Hawaiian celebration picture. The story of the dress is that I wore this dress 23 years ago when we first came to Hawaii. I found it way in the back of my closet. I was so excited that I still had it. To me, the style is a classic. Ed bought three Hawaii shirts! He looked really good in them!


We went to China Town for the day. The few blocks were very busy as it was the weekend. We heard a lot of tongues that we were unfamiliar with. The shops had flowers in one area, clothing, restaurants, and a large area of produce and meats.

See if you can find Ed?

This is one view of the outdoor market.

Some of the clothing. They had silk suits for babies. They were adorable! We went back to our room, and after the sun set, we went to the Hawaiian Celebration for Ed's meeting.

Hawaii - Days Seven and Eight

Ed had meetings in the AM. We didn't tour this day.
Thursday I took a free bus into Waikiki by myself and found a cute dress, after trying on very many dresses. I discovered that having pancakes for breakfast Every Day is not a good diet to live on.

After Ed's meeting were done we went for the opening of the meeting for NPMA. We were treated to a performance of a young lady who plays the Ukulele in a very unusual way. Her style is playful and she melts different melodies together. Her music was played with a lot of energy. I thought it was interesting that her Uke had 8 strings and made me think of a mandolin, but the two instruments are tuned differently.

Then we went to our room for our afternoon glass of wine. All our dinners will be discussed on my cooking blog.

Hawaii - Day Six

We went to the Hawaii's Plantation Village. I didn't take any photos. However, we were guided on a tour of the plantation. There were buildings there that represented the housing styles of the different ethnic groups that came to work there.

1. The Chinese were first to arrive in 1852. They had a Chinese Society building for their worship, and had tiny one room houses.
2. In 1868 the Japanese came, lived in a duplex style house, cooked over a fire and added a communal building for making Tofu-Ya. The Japanese adopted Christianity.
3. The Portuguese came in 1878, were already Christian and had a house for cooking with a stove, and house one for sleeping.
4. The Puerto Ricans in 1900, small house.
5. Okinawans came in 1919
6. Koreans in 1919 about this time there was a popular meeting place, the Barber shop. There people would learn what was newsworthy from each other. There was also a communal bath house. It was a large concrete tub that was divided in the middle by a wooden wall, and was housed in a room that was also divided into two spaces, one side for men, and the other for women.

Add later was a dormitory for male filipino workers. There was also a Sumo ring, and a plantation store. The families would earn $9 to $14 per month. They would spend all their earnings at the local store. An infirmary was made about 1915, to care for dental as well as medical problems. Must have been a hard life.

Our guide was very enjoyable and spoke about the variety of cultures that have come to make up the Hawaiian society today.

This was a pretty long tour. We called it a day after the tour.