apologies

My website, www.JoneshandmadeGoods.com, is down at the moment.
A million apologies for the inconvenience. Please visit my Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/JonesHandmadeGoods
Thank you!

Sorry I haven't updated my blog in MONTHS.
Here's the scoop on what's kept me so distracted...

-We bought the house and property behind us. My husband is completely gutting the house ( it's an awful mess) to turn into the Jones Handmade Goods studio here in Maxeys. Exciting!
-Baby Charlotte arrived a little early and we've been enjoying her immensely. I'll post a photo of her cuteness.
-My mother died on Halloween after a year long battle with brain cancer. (Sigh)
-And now, the holidays, hooray (sarcasm infused, in case you couldn't tell).

I know excuses, excuses, but check back after the New Year and hopefully I'll have my jazzy back and new artwork to share and chat about. Until then...xoxo, Monica

our darling girl

We had to say goodbye last Wednesday to our oldest girl, Briana our sweet black lab.

But rather than share my weeping and wailing over her departure, I want remember a time a while back when she made me laugh. She was a quirky dog.

I left her alone for 15 minutes to go to the post office and when I returned there was a trail of white powder from the front door, through the house, back to the kitchen, where I found this - see photo.

At first, I flipped out as any mother would do upon seeing a bag of white powder busted open on her kitchen floor. Could it be poison? Has Briana developed a taste for poison? Does she have a drug habit we were never aware of?

Upon further invesigation I realized that our 15 year old arthritic dog had removed an entire bag of flour from a shelf in the pantry, dragged it to her bed, and went to town on it. She had flour caked in her nose holes and gumming up her mouth = truly gross, but hysterical.

Thanks for your love and devotion, and for never failing to surprise us. Until we meet again...

special pink kitty cup

I recently filled an order for an old high school friend Joanna McNally for her mother Julie.
Her mother loves cats and her favorite color is pink.
I also put her initials in a crown on the back. How sweet, right?

The cup is wheel thrown and painted porcelain fired to Cone 6.

set of rabbit cups

These are a set of 6 rabbit cups. Didn't they turn out sweet?

An Unusual Request

I traveled to Richmond, VA. last weekend with my neighbor friend Maureento visit her Aunt Sis.
While there, my artistic services were requested to paint a shamrock on Aunt Sis' funeral box
(a wooden box that will hold her ashes when she dies).
How unusual, right? But I was certainly honored to be asked.
Especially for such a spunky cute gal like Aunt Sis. She is a delight.

Above is Aunt Sis in the middle, her neices Maureen from Maxeys on the left
and Maureen's sister Rita Anne from Maryland on the right.

The box itself is an antique (pine I think).
She said she would just stick some shamrock decals on it,
but don't you think it's more special being painted?

See how cute she is?
She said, "It's so pretty! I can't wait to get in there!".

Mother's Day golf

Jones golfers, originally uploaded by joneshandmadegoods.

We all met up at Cedar Creek in Loganville for some Mother's Day golf per Linda's request. Baby Naiya stole the show and we all had a big fun time.