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Art Over Macleay Park

For those of you in Portland, I will be showing all new handbags at Art Over Macleay Park, December 7-8th.  please come and look at the wonderful things for sale.  You just might find the right gift for Christmas and indulge  yourself with a SweetPersimmon leather handbag as well.

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Disaster in the tea rooom

One of my tea students is a high schooler, and she is just great because I get a fresh perspective from her.  There are less filters and inhibitions, so her questions are always what everyone else is thinking, but dare not ask for fear of looking stupid.

She came up with one I had to …

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From the archives

I have been going back through the archives and I hope you will want to review some of the articles there too.

I can’t believe either that it has been 6 years of blogging.

1 year ago Tis the Season 

2 years ago Month of Teachers Running

3 years ago The season for Udon

Trust …

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Activities update at Issoan Tea

For my blog readers, I apologize for not posting.  It seems like I do this periodically  – get out of the habit of blogging and then let it go for a while.  I will do better in the future.

Let’s see, we have been busy this summer.  To begin with we have had a workshop …

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From the haigata workshop

It has been a long time since I have blogged, but we have been busy at Issoan Tea School.

Last month we had a haigata workshop, the forming of the ash for burning charcoal.  The whole class was able to use the ash spoons to smooth the ash and do part of the form.  Then …

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