News — rebecca graves pottery

Sleep eludes me. I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm an insomniac. It's more that there is so much I want to do, I just don't want to wind down at the end of the day. Add in the factor that it is not the easiest thing for me to shut down the ol' brain and there's a recipe for lying awake for hours thinking about the things I will do tomorrow.  While sleepy time might be when I'm planning world domination, I'd really love to find a peaceful and restful slumber without fighting sleep with every blink...

You might think that skulls, reversible cables and a vintage typewriter don't have much in common and you'd probably be right in most cases. Here at my casa, though, they're a few of my very favorite things. I found the vintage typewriter a few years ago at a storage unit auction for $5 and I love the look of it. The thing is heavy and unwieldy but it looks so damn nice in the background of product photos. My mom used to have an antique typewriter when I was a kid and I thought it was just the coolest thing...

We have developed a bit of a routine on the weekends when we aren't traveling or at a show. We sleep in a bit, dink around the house, play with the kitties, maybe watch some of the tv we DVR'd from the week then make fresh pancakes. The experimentation with pancake recipes began when I realized I was out of pancake mix from the grocery store. I thought we were doomed to a pancakeless morning but refusing to be thwarted I started researching pancake recipes online. As it turns out, it's just as easy to make them from scratch and...

As the air starts to become crisp and the rustle of autumn leaves is dancing across the yard I know it's time to fire up the oven. Last week the grocery store had an awesome deal on apples. Three pounds of Gala apples for $1.99. I was delighted to find that the sale was still going on when we made our grocery run this week. There were still three apples left from last week. You know the ones. The apples that are fine but not so pretty. They are a little bruised and maybe a bit soft where they clunked...