I fell in love with ceramics and clay pots while on a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in late summer 2018. 

I remember this one particular restaurant we ate at. Los Tres Gallos. Our drinks were served in the most beautiful cantaritos, and I simply fell in love with them. The red clay dinnerware on which our food was served spoke to me as well.

Many of the restaurants we ate at had gift shops filled with Mexican pottery art and clay molcajete’s and those lovely clay cantaritos. I couldn’t resist and purchased a few pieces to bring back home to use for food styling and photography props for my food blog.

When I returned home I began researching the history of Mexican pottery. I discovered this one particular story about an American woman named Lorna Hankins with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts who moved to La Candelaria in the remote mountains outside of Cabo San Lucas to teach and make authentic Mexican pottery.

Something lit a fire in me I couldn’t put out after reading that story. I can’t find the words to describe what or how I felt, but I knew I wanted to learn to make pottery and take my life in a different direction.

I intently researched “ceramicists and starting your own pottery business.” I read anything and everything my eyes landed on in google search.

But how was I to make that happen? I didn’t know the first thing about pottery or running a business. I incessantly daydreamed of quitting my job and working from home or a little studio selling pottery. 

Long story short, I began working on that dream by purchasing a portable pottery wheel on a whim and taking a pottery course at a local pottery studio. I fell in love with the whole process and over the next 3 years taught myself to throw on the wheel and hand build pottery.

Guess what? I quit my job a year later in late 2019 to focus on making my dream come true!

In the spring of 2021 I purchased a small kiln for my garage and as they say… the rest is history!