News From Ephraim, our newsletter, is reproduced here. If you'd like to receive a paper copy in the mail, please e-mail Kristin Zanetti. Catalog #5 Hot Off the Presses Just released, Catalog #5 is our biggest and best ever! Now in an expanded
16-page format, Catalog #5 features more of everything you love: more vases, more glazes,
more tiles, and more about us.
Vases Catalog #5 boasts a variety of enticing new vases: 19 in all! Here are
some highlights:
Glazes Our glazes have garnered praise from pottery collectors across the country. Our new curdle glazes will amaze and delight you.
These glazes look great on two of our hottest new vases: the Begonia and the Rhinoceros Beetle. Tile We heard you, loud and clear: you love our tiles, and you want more of them! We listened. Here's proof
Also new this year is a hand-made oak
frame in a triptych format with spaces for three 6” x 6” tiles. Mix and match
our tiles to create your own personalized combination. Catalog #5 is available for $6. This
charge will be deducted from your first order of $50 or more. Call 888-704-POTS now to order yours. Please have your
credit card information handy. Or, if you prefer, you can mail a check to Ephraim Faience
Pottery, Attn: Catalog, PO Box 168, Deerfield, WI 53531. We’re
Growing! We’ve received a tremendous response to our pottery and
tiles from our customers over the past year. As a result, we’re hiring some great new
people so that we can better serve our customers. Please join us in welcoming the two
newest members of the EFP studio, Jesse Wolf and Wendy Krueger. Jesse and Wendy are
wonderful additions to the studio, and we are pleased that they decided to join us.
Have you been kicking yourself for not buying one of the pieces that was retired this past March? If you wanted a piece but missed the ordering deadline, all is not necessarily lost. One of our retailers may have the piece you’re looking for. A list of possible retail sources can be found on our web site. Summer
Calendar We’ve
got an action-packed summer planned. In addition to attending shows on the west coast and
in the Midwest, we’ll also have a local gallery opening to celebrate the new vases in
Catalog #5. If you need further information regarding any of these events, please e-mail
or call us. We hope you can join us! July 7-11 Pottery collectors from across the country converge on tiny Zanesville
each year for a fortnight of pottery auctions, sales, exhibits, and events. Visit us in Room 156 (this is a room change!) of the Holiday Inn to see our display and purchase our pottery. To learn
more about this truly unique event, log on to the Zanesville-Muskingum County Convention
and Visitors Bureau web site, www.zanesville-ohio.com, or call
800-742-2303. There’s also a great
article on the Reunion in the May 2000 issue of Country Living magazine. July 14-16 We invite you
to join us for this special gallery show featuring the new vases in Catalog #5. The
weekend will kick off with a special artist’s reception on Friday from 6:30-8:30 pm. Show hours: Saturday 1-8 pm and Sunday 1-5 pm. August
12-13 This is the Bay Area’s largest Arts and Crafts sale. In addition to our pottery, you can also shop for furniture, jewelry, photography, books, lighting, textiles, rugs, and clothing. Art Nouveau, Native American, Rancho, and Western styles are also featured. For more information, log on to www.artsandcrafts-sf.com or call the show’s producer, Penelope Cloutier, at 707-865-1576.
Over 75 dealers of all types of
pottery participate in this annual show. This year’s special exhibit is Clay and
Craft: The Art Pottery of Illinois. You can find more information on the WPA’s web
site, www.wisconsinpottery.org, or by calling (608) 249-6898. An important footnote Fall
Preview Details
on these and other events will be given in the next issue of News From Ephraim, and
will also be posted this fall on www.ephraimpottery.com. Early
September (date to be announced) September
23-24 October
7-8 October
21 Early
December (date to be announced)
Wedding
Bells
It’s
a web, web, web, web world EFP’s
web site has been on line for over a year now. We’ve received a lot of positive
feedback from our customers on our site. In order to keep the content fresh and the site
fun to visit regularly, we are planning an update and overhaul later this year. Our site
is for you, our customers, and we’d like to hear what you’d like to see. Please
e-mail your comments and suggestions to Kristin
Zanetti.
Thanks for your input! New
Company Store EFP’s
studio is located in a converted barn building in a rural area near Deerfield, Wisconsin.
Unfortunately, we’re not able to accommodate visitors at the studio. As our business
grows, so do the number of phone calls and e-mails asking if we have a company store. Dovetail Antiques is located at 119 S. Main St. (Hwy 73), Deerfield, WI. Hours are Thur.-Sun., 11-4, and by appointment. From I-94, take the Hwy 73 Deerfield-Marshall exit south 4 miles to Deerfield. Info/appt: John Mathews 608-764-1454 (store) or 608-764-8310 (home). Down
on the Farm
So much for the drought predicted for us by the Farmers’ Almanac. “Down in the Swamp” would be a better title for this column. It’s been raining steadily here on the farm for the past two months. Since the beginning of May, we haven’t gone more than three days without rain. We actually came within a few hundredths of an inch of setting a new record for the wettest May ever. Rivers have flooded their banks, and
many farm fields are under water. The fields look more like Asian rice paddies than
furrows of corn and soybeans. And with that much standing water, we’ve got a bumper
crop of very hungry mosquitoes!
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