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Wheelthrown forms for the home. Made by Kayla G. L’Heureux in New Hampshire.

07/22/2021

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07/14/2021

One more update for y’all is spinning on my wheel today….

Baby Laroo is coming January 2022!

07/06/2021

The holiday weekend may be over but there’s something about the beginning of the week in July that just hits differently.

07/01/2021

The face of a girl who:

✨TOOK a yoga class
✨made pots
✨had 2 hour-long phone convos with best girlfriends (thank you AirPods)
✨ and has the cutest studio assistant in history.

06/30/2021

Deep plate photo dump 😋

We use these plates constantly in our house, breakfast, lunch, snack, salad, dinner, donut. I think they’re my favorite kitchen item, next to my blender and my instant pot 🤩

06/27/2021

Sunday is for all the good things, teaching and taking a yoga class (our version of church, and I agreed), cleaning up the garden and unloading the glaze kiln!

The first full week of summer was kinda nutty, I left ALL the things to deal with once school ended, and there’s been a lot of putting out fires 😅 This upcoming week I’m committing to taking more yoga classes, and setting firm time boundaries around my studio work.

06/22/2021

Week 1 at the new job:

✨obsessed with the commute
✨dress code is 👌
✨best coworker in the land 🐾

06/18/2021

Settling into this new pace of life feels like coming home. ✨

06/16/2021

I’ve been surprisingly unemotional since making the decision to move on from teaching art. Today on the last day of a historic school year, I woke up like it was any other day, hurriedly drove to work, taught my classes, waved goodbye as students left the art room.

It wasn’t until the final group of students strolled through the door and into the hallway, that I turned around to face my empty art room and positively lost it. This space has been “mine” for 6 years, longer than I’ve ever lived in one spot since leaving my childhood home at 18. I’ve watched as the classrooms around mine have constantly been repurposed. Teachers moving furniture and belongings up and down the hallways every June to August to reestablish their new teaching grounds. But this room, always mine. When I moved into it, I was 23, newly single and had just moved back into my parents home. The art room was an escape, a place I could make my own. a space to express myself and encourage the many young learners who shared this space with me to express themselves as well.

The kids loved their art room, it grew and expanded, changed every year into something bigger and better. Now, I look at a room that I wouldn’t have recognized when I walked in as a first year teacher. Every single piece of furniture in it now acquired in the last 6 years that I’ve been it’s caretaker.

The quiet art room feels like a relic now. Filled with memories of young voices and colorful projects. Of laughs, tears, arguments, triumphs, art camps, art shows, and a whole lotta growth. For all of us.

The end of a chapter is always bittersweet. It’s time for the next thing—this I know for certain. Deep in my bones I also know this chapter was a good one. One that helped make me who I am.

Thank you to my colleagues who shared experience and strategies with me. Thank you to the parents who made this role so darn fun and rewarding. Special shout out to the mom that gave me tissues at parent pick up today while I cried a river. And most of all, thank you to the hundreds, likely 1000 students and athletes that shared their lives and stories with me over the last 6 years. Y’all were worth every minute.

06/11/2021

I know I promised some exciting news this week, and this is a bit of a long read but hopefully worth a minute pause from the scrolling, so here it is!

Kgclayware is going to become my full time job in ONE WEEK! This is scary and thrilling and most of all, exactly what I need in my life right now. Next Wednesday I button up another year of teaching elementary art, and I leave my classroom of 6 years for the last time.

This school year has been uniquely challenging, for sure. But it’s not the sole or even main reason for my decision. I’m a classic overloader, always putting more than I can handle on my plate and convincing myself I can make it happen. After all, teaching full time, coaching 2 varsity sports and doing 200hr YTT sounded perfectly reasonable right? 🤣WRONG.

I’ve operated at a THRILLING pace for many years now, and am feeling the physical effects on my body in a big way. I know I need balance, and I’m taking control of my own life.

Being a full time artist/entrepreneur will have its challenges, and I’m ready to take them on. I know this lifestyle will bring me the peace and space I didn’t know until recently that I desperately need to function.

So here I am, 29.5 years of age and in the midst of an absolutely riveting Saturn return and I’m gonna live my dream. Literally every pot you’ve purchased from me this year (and every yoga class you’ve attended) went into making this dream my actual freaking reality. I’m humbled and grateful.

I will also be increasing the number of yoga classes I’m teaching on a weekly basis, so the teacher in me will live on, soul on fire and ready to flow hard. 🔥🔥🔥

06/06/2021

👋 hey y’all. I know taking a few weeks off from IG isn’t encouraged but sometimes life gets in the way, am I right?

I promise I am here to stay ☺️ I have some exciting news to share with you all this week. Stay tuned. ✨

05/16/2021

It’s days like these that make me so glad I moved my studio out of the basement and into the garage! Ready to get throwing today. ☺️

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