Brookside Pottery Downtown is in transition...I've moved my studio home

Update...
    Due to difficulty in parking for my customers and students, I have moved my studio home as of June 1, 2019.  It was really taking a tole on my business downtown.   It will take a while to set it up and sort through the million and one objects I have accumulated over 45 years in my pottery studio.
    I have plans to continue teaching date nights at a new location to be announced later.
    Meanwhile I have some health issues to overcome as well, aka had a small heart attack in the process of moving.  No permanent damage but takes a while to heal.  I'll need a little more recovery time.
    Message me if you did a Datenight recently and still need to glaze or recover your pots.  I threw no student pots out but can't keep them forever.  I gave a 60 day notice on my fb wall asking students to claim pots 2 months ago.  If they aren't claimed they will be glazed and most likely donated to Empty Bowls next year.  That is a worthy cause and seems like a positive resolution for us all.

Stay tuned. I will update again when life comes back to good order.

Many thanks,
Linda Rimstidt Coward
ps you can always message me on FB about your pottery

Fun Date Night, Making Pottery on the Wheel with a little help, Downtown Tulsa!

Hi friends!
Do you still have someone difficult to buy for? They don’t want stuff but they  like experiences?  This may be the gift for them! Just give them a card and make note as a gift certificate and let me know. You pay when they have made an appointment and it happens. Just message me so I know what’s up. ❤️. Hoping this helps someone who needs a nice gift!
“GIFT IDEA.
If you are looking for a fun gift of experiences, here it is. This is how my date nights work. You can have a date with anyone. A love interest, a friend or a little person who loves art. Basically anyone who wants to play in clay and wants one in one attention will love it.

Date Nights, Ninth Anniversaries and Fun Get Togethers at Brookside Pottery Downtown
Date nights, get togethers and fun experiences in pottery at Brookside Pottery Downtown

Yes its fun. Life is all about experiences and I can make a clay date happen for lovers, friends and or family. Yes, I still do this and enjoy it immensely.
This makes a great gift any time of the year.  You can bring your own alcohol to share while you work and I'll show you how to either throw on the potters wheel. yes just like on Ghosts, kinda, lol or we can hand build a vase, bowl or clay mask.

The experience takes about an hour and a half and there are several restaurants nearby if you want to  go out for a special meal afterwards. We set this up by appointment and as long as I'm available, I can make it happen at a mutually agreed time.  I am spontaneous so if this is a last minute plan lots of times it still works out.

Basically it is $50 per person to come make your creations and that includes materials and tools to use.  You have to leave the pieces with me to dry and be fired in the kiln.  Then you choose.  Do you want another date at half price, $25 each to glaze or do you want me to glaze it for you at $15 each or do you want to just come pick up your work and hang on to it and decide later. Its all fine.

If you want to have this fun opportunity you need no prior experience but if you have some, that is fine as well. Message me on fb or email me at claylady00@aol.com

We can make it happen.”

Fun Date Nights in Tulsa at Brookside Pottery Downtown

Hello Friends!
Yes! I get asked quite often if I am still holding date nights in my shop in the Atlas Life Building Downtown. Yes I am and we have a lot of fun.
The info is still the same as I posted a couple years ago.
If you want to reach me fast and easy find Brookside Pottery/Linda Coward on Facebook. As soon as I see your message, I'll respond.  Dates are day or night and by appointment. I can schedule in advance or fairly spontaneously.
Your date can be anyone. A typical date, a ninth or tenth anniversary. Any kind of friend and any age.  The shop can hold up to 4-6 people at a time but it usually a 2 person event and that way you get a lot of one on one attention.
It is a great way to see if you really like to work and clay.
You can also reach me by email at Claylady00@aol.com.

I'll be happy to share this experience with you!  I'm located at 415 South Boston, Suite 105 right inside the door of the Atlas Life/Marriott Hotel building.

Want a fun date that creates fine memories? Come to my shop and I'll help you learn to throw on the wheel and then head for a fine restaurant downtown.  And if you are really celebrating something special,  book a night at the Marriott Hotel located directly above my shop. Yep, it's fun and it's special.
Linda Coward

Date Nights, Ninth Anniversaries and Fun Get Togethers at Brookside Pottery Downtown

Date nights, get togethers and fun experiences in pottery at Brookside Pottery Downtown

Yes its fun. Life is all about experiences and I can make a clay date happen for lovers, friends and or family. Yes, I still do this and enjoy it immensely.
This makes a great gift any time of the year.  You can bring your own alcohol to share while you work and I'll show you how to either throw on the potters wheel. yes just like on Ghosts, kinda, lol or we can hand build a vase, bowl or clay mask.

The experience takes about an hour and a half and there are severely restaurants nearby if you want to  go out for a special meal afterwards. We set this up by appointment and as long as I'm available, I can make it happen at a mutually agreed time.  I am spontaneous so if this is a last minute plan lots of times it still works out.

Basically it is $50 per person to come make your creations and that includes materials and tools to use.  You have to leave the pieces with me to dry and be fired in the kiln.  Then you choose.  Do you want another date at half price, $25 each to glaze or do you want me to glaze it for you at $15 each or do you want to just come pick up your work and hang on to it and decide later. Its all fine.

If you want to have this fun opportunity you need no prior experience but if you have some, that is fine as well.

Call me at 918 697-6364 or email me at claylady00@aol.com

We can make it happen.

Fun Date nights making pottery in Tulsa Oklahoma

Brookside Pottery Downtown makes for a fun date!

We will get together and come up with a time that works for us all and make pots.  Ive been doing this for a while and it is really fun.  I love playing cupid.  Just call and I can answer questions about how this works. All you need is to bring each other and something to drink if you like. I provide the fun and instruction.

    First we pick a project and i show you how to make it. We play in the clay.  Then I'll take your picture, you and your pots, send it to you and you have to leave the pots at my shop to dry and be fired because it is the real thing.  We work from bags of clay, not pre made molded ceramics. 

 We can either do a hand made project or throw on the potters wheel, a unique experience and yes i will play the theme song from Ghosts by special request.

  Next you decide if you want to choose a color and I glaze for you or if you want to come back for a second date.  Or you can store your creative adventures and decide later after the first firing. 

 Real pottery has to be fired twice, once to remove the water and make it stone like and once to apply the glaze which is the layer of glass on the surface of the pottery.  

It is really fun and I love getting to know people who want to play with clay.  It makes a great first date and you can go next door at Tavola's for dinner later if you want a delicious and convenient place to eat or your choice.  I have also hosted Birthday party dates, anniversaries and you know number 9 has a pottery theme.  I'm flexible and spontaneous and we can make this happen.

The basic info for fee etc is listed below.

Date Night by appointment. Get to know each other while working on a clay project. Champagne suggested.  $50 per person, per evening, materials included.  May need to return to glaze with 2nd date unless we plan otherwise. 

Location:

Atlas Life Building Downtown/MarriottHotel

415 South Boston Ave, Suite 105

Tulsa, OK 74105

You can reach me by cell at 918 697-6364

or email at Claylady00@aol.com

Pottery Classes in Tulsa Oklahoma, Update

Pottery Classes  update for 2015

Beginners-All about hand building- Wednesday afternoons from 3:30-6pm, $25 plus materials.  Learn pinching, coiling, slab building, hollowing out in various forms of pottery and sculpture plus glazing techniques. Limited to 8 students.  Starts to be announced. Please call or text to make sure the class is meeting that day.

Beginningand Advanced Handbuilding Pottery Class-Wednesday nights. 6:30-9. $25 each night. Plus materials and firing.  Monthly sign up. On going. Use my shop to create and I will be glad to help you advance your techniques. A Demo or talk every week and then play. Limited to 8 students.  Ongoing class. Very active and full class. Please call to make sure there is space available.

Tuesday class will not be meeting until after the holidays. It may resume in the early spring.

Tutoring on wheel available. $45 per hour. 30 min of one-on-one  help and 30 minutes to work. By appointment

Small parties and get together for groups of 4 more. Info available. BYOB and have fun. $50 per person, materials included

Date Night by appointment. Get to know each other while working on a clay project. Champagne suggested.  $50 per person, per evening, materials included.  May need to return to glaze with 2nd date unless we plan otherwise. 

Scout groups, church groups and home school students by appt.  $25 per hour per person, minimum 4 persons or $50 per person per hour, materials included

Traveling Pottery Teacher… Got the space and I’ll come to you in your studio and show you how to fire your kiln, tutor and help you get started or do a home party. $100 per hour plus travel. By appointment.

Lectures by appointment. Call for details and availability. 

For more info

Linda Rimstidt Coward

Brookside Pottery Downtown

415 S. Boston Ave Suite 105

Tulsa OK  74103

918 697-6364

or find me on FB and send me a message at Linda Rimstidt Coward

LindaCowardPottery.blogspot. com

Just Another Birthday...When I'm 64...

Just another birthday...again.

It's early in the morning and I wake up,wondering in that semi-conscious state, am I sure I'm going to be be 64?  A lot of my friends are in their 50's. Maybe I'm turning 55. How can this be?  Don't panic. We've got this.  I'm going to be 64. The Beatles warned me when I was a teenager. It's ok. Really it's ok. Remember your fav mentor, Beatrice Wood lived to be 105 and didn't loose her libido till she turned 102. And what about your wise Native American friend, Peggy. She is 88 now and is heading for her fathers age when he died at 105. 105. Maybe 105 is the new 70. Maybe.

Yes it will be 64. I'd planned on making a big event out of it. Carpe diem. Carpet diem!  Well, I got to tired and had to scale back. I attended an incredibly wonderful painting workshop where the teacher worked us to death. 5 days of super focus, not allowing us to talk to others except at lunch so we could really focus. Everyday, at the end I drug my sorry but proud worn out ass to the motel and fell in the bed until I got the energy to go eat at some fabulous Santa Fe restaurant where I was able to drink appropriately and lift my fork to my face.

I looked in the mirror and saw a little more crepe skin hanging under my chin. I saw a few funny paper looking areas on my arms, funny looking skin I could pull on and it stretched a bit and went back into place. Oh surely it is just dehydration, not that old lady who jumps in front of me sometimes when I comb my hair.

So, reality struck and I decided to scale back my party for starters. Just have fun.  Don't overdue it like I usually do. Make it fun. Make it small. All my friends warn me all the time to slow down. Wink wink. At least when I walk I don't hear. Step clank clank yet, while holding onto an aluminum easy to lift walker thing with bright yellow tennis balls.

So I lie in bed before the sun comes up thinking, thinking those cloudy early morning thoughts. It is the time I usually think about fun projects to try today and plan artistically. But nooooo.  Today I keep wondering, wondering about time. Perhaps it stems not only from my more reasonable birthday plans, as i hear the "slow down Bessie," warnings. But also because I've been doing so much naval gazing making these damn 64 pots representing each year of my life and trying to remember something about each year. Who thought of this idea anyway?  Oh, the person accepting time passing, me.

I remember other birthdays. Why can I only remember the weird ones? I know I had good birthdays as well.  I certainly remember good cake, the preferred base of my food pyramid.

When I turned about nine, in southern Indiana along the Ohio river, I remember planning a fun birthday party. I wanted a festive day on a hot summer afternoon in July. There was the neatest thing that had just come about. Bakeries were sticking Barbie like dolls in the middle of cakes. How cool was that!  Icing for a dress. A beautiful "young" girl stuffed in a yummy cake with sticky sugary lickable  icing all around her plastic naked body. Every girls pubescent what's next cake dream. Could this be pre-sexual thinking, there in the middle of my birthday table?  Someday could I be pretty enough to be the girl popping out of the cake? Anyway, the party was a flop.  Hardly anyone came was how I saw it. Such a beautiful table all decorated in ribbons with napkins and paper plates. Only my brothers and a close friend or two came. It was a hot summer day. Everyone was on vacation. Dang.

In my mid 30's I had an opposite experience. I was working at a pottery shop in Austin, Texas and noticed around lunch,  friends kept showing up. They were hanging out longer than usual and some even brought food."What a coincidence"  I thought. All these friends are  Showing  up for lunch."   They kept coming. Finally someone told me it was a surprise birthday party. They whipped out a cake and we celebrated. I thought I was getting old. I was. Lol

On a lighter note, only a few years ago I had a very fun birthday and it didn't take much.  I was in Santa Fe with friends. Around lunch time I was visiting the Tesuque pueblo. I'd love to have a margarita for my birthday I proudly announced. My husband poo pooed the idea. "You really shouldn't" he declared and that popped my bubble. We were traveling with a couple friends and later that night when our spouses wanted to read, my playground kinda friend said let's go find a margarita and we had to look hard to find a bar open. We did. And the bartender added a shot at the end for my birthday. That was even better than the doll coming out of the cake when I was 9. Santa Fe being the aware of late night drinkers needs, suggested we walk a block to have breakfast before driving away. It was delicious and while we were there, a man pulled up on his bicycle wearing a big plastic pig head. After that I looked for pig head man and usually spotted him while visiting Santa Fe. I saw him riding on St. Micheals rd  later and in Whole Foods Market  as well. He has become a symbol of a good time for me.

So now npr is playing from my husbands side of the bed. The distractions of the day begin. I'm  losing those special early morning thoughts and I'm still 63 till Friday.

Hang on lady. Let the party begin. Bird by bird. Carpet diem. I'm as old as I've ever been and as young as I'll ever be. Just breath and stay I the moment and hang out sometimes with people 10 years older than I am if i need to feel younger. It's gonna be ok. Age is just a number, kinda.