Circa Ceramics

|Friday| ☀️ How's everyone doing?!? It has been some months! We're good, it's just been busy - And I'm posting today because we are DONE with a giant order of ware that literally took us 5 months to complete! Pics here of the Circa dudes doing their jobs 😄 Now we can go back to normal studio stuff 😀 We're getting ready to stock ! We're already working on some custom popcorn bowls for ! And I will be updating the online places with some ware. So in the meantime, if you happen to be at - Snap a pic of our ware in the wild and tag us 👍🏽😀

|Sunday, NYE|🌜🎉 Happy New Year's Eve everyone! Thank you for being around in whatever capacity. We appreciate it so much, because time is precious!
😀😀😀 2024, we are braced and ready!

|Monday| ☁️ PSA from - They're taking $5 off your order in shops for Cyber Monday. So if anyone is running a sale (or not) you're still getting at least $5 off flat 😀 Today only! You know, because Cyber Monday 👈🏽👍🏽

|Sunday| ☀️ Friends! The updates are coming! This past October was HECTIC. Oliver turned 13 (!!!!!), we did 2x celebrations, we got 2 really great custom jobs (one is the , the other is still 🤫) and we did a delivery of long-awaited ware to the wonderful b&m that is 🥰
We're re-releasing our spoon rests (they've been out since April-Our press went KERCHUNK clang clang, now we rigged it so we can resume production). The Obama Foundation mugs will be ongoing for awhile and we're very happy about that. It IS constant daily casting, which is very different from our usual way of making ware (Andy and his jigger machine) but we've adapted. So....Yeah, that's about it I think for updates? I'm glazing some Sweet Tooth mugs for online, if you reached out asking for them, I'll be in touch soon. I'm off for a bit to do some home stuff, then heading in to the studio. Have a productive Sunday!

|Wednesday|☀️Hump day! Also a bonus day. I forgot that Oliver had Monday off, so today felt like a Tuesday, but it's Wednesday and I'm glad for it. Lots of shipping and lots of casting today, my long day at the studio 🤪

|Tuesday| ⛅ coming through with the stain for our current project (super secret for now! 🤫)

|Monday|☀️ Chicago is experiencing its 2nd summer 🤨 I am shipping, and loading another kiln-In air conditioning (thanks Andy😀)
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|Tuesday| 🌤 Shipping today 😁
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|Thursday| ⛅ Doing something that is pretty chill: Glazing. Just glazing a bunch of ware. 🙂 And I have some Ghoul Boys Buzzfeed Unsolved on because it's pre-spooky season and I love it.
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|Wednesday|☀️ Last night Andy & I went to an event at the JW Marriott downtown 😀 Celebrating the efforts CDFIs made during those early days of the pandemic. As recipients of a loan, we were 1 of 5 microbusinesses present. Our Littles Dishes were purchased beforehand & we got to distribute them to attendees and chat about our experiences. Having not been to a show/art festival/craft fair as a vendor in awhile, we were surprised at how easily we fell back into the socializing part of it - Though not having to sell anything was a huge pressure off! And of course we have post show high 😂 Everyone there was lovely, we met a ton of people and they seemed genuinely curious about how our business worked and what we do now (since we bounced out of selling at events) 10/10 would do again 👍🏽😀 And let me shout out our beloved son Oliver! A legend! Helped pack up and sort the dishes in a pinch! ❤
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|Sunday| 🌧 Heyyyyy it's a Photo Dump! Busy week - Deadlines are looming, and O had his last day of 6th grade on Wednesday! Whaaaaaat! So here are some pics - My face so if you're just following us now - Hi, I'm Nancy, 1/2 of Circa Ceramics, proud MexiRican, parent, Chicago native, in business for 22 years (!) I'm the surface decorator, Andy (husband,) is the ceramist/mold maker - No pics, he ran away 😂
Anyway, ware pics are in no particular order, and include another very fun wedding favor batch of itty bitty cylinders picked up yesterday 💖
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|Tuesday| 🌧 New polling place for Ward 47, Precinct 24 ✅ Fastest vote ever, and if you skipped early voting (like me) just pop in to your polling place or an early voting site and bam, done 🙂👍🏽
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|Friday|☁️ AHHHHHHH FRIDAY! Good week of work, pictures of which I'm adding here, plus 2 of my favorite video games are out (1 is in beta testing this weekend, the other is out and both look gorgeous!🤩) Rewards for after a few more store orders get done 💪🏽🎮 😀
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|Tuesday|☀️ Bye-bye little Rhino!
shipping ware and I felt this send-off was needed 👋🏽🙂📦
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|Thursday| 🌥 Busy week. Mugs & cups everywhere 😅 Cleaning cups while listening to do and I will never get tired of people reading these to me because I feel no need to go to find them myself, but I love trash so thanks. 😂
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|Saturday| ☁️ I keep meaning to post daily, but I'll be damned if I don't get distracted by more work 😂 And is it just me or -to sound very cliché- Did this month just fly by? Anyway, here's to staying busy 🍻 And here's a look at some of the goodies that went out this week 🤩 The last one was a wedding favors order, and I'm VERY happy with how they turned out!
Ok, good weekend to you, may it be productive 💪🏽👍🏽
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|Thursday|☀️ A little nippy here in Chicago! But hey - Here's these 😀 A little shipping before heading out to pick up the kid 👦🥜😅

|Wednesday|☀️ So.Many.Cups.😂 I'm in my happy place though - Cleaning ware & listening to Talk Mortem! Now that we joined the Patreon, there's a ton to listen to, it's all so great 😀

|FRIYAAAAAAY| 🌨 This event schedule I found lodged in the door of our Big Blue Cabinet is wild 😆 Andy & I are taking advantage of certain spaces being empty for a bit & cleaning, moving stuff around. Finding things like this always throws us into flashback mode 😅 Eventually I'd love to take all the press, publications, bits of ephemera like this and put it all in a couple bigass frames for posterity!