POCG News & Updates

As I began this journey, I had several ideas swirling around for what my Mug of the Month design could be, but one vision kept calling me back: a soft blue mug with an antler curving gracefully around the side as its handle. At first, I thought, how hard could that be? I had done something similar before. But as I quickly learned, creating one mug like that is very different from creating twenty‑five. Each piece brought its own challenges, teaching me patience and persistenc

Mug of the Month Progress Update: Coming up with the design of the Winter Sleigh ride was the easy part, bringing it to life has brought out multiple different challenges. Challenges: Timing: Timing is everything with this design, wait a day too late and the walls of the mug are too dry to attach the handle too without forming cracks. Attaching the handles involves a lot of slip and that added moisture to the sides of a mug that’s too dry usually ends with cracks forming. o

December Mug of the Month: Staci Wolfe Finding Beauty in Nature December Mug of the Month artist lives in Plum, PA now, but her roots run deep in rural Pennsylvania farmland, where she grew up close to her grandparents. Staci's introduction to art came from one of the most influential people in her life, her grandmother, Jean Wolfe . Jean is an artist whose world is shaped by nature. Whether painting wildlife in oils, carving leather, antler, bone, or wood, she has always cre