Just before Thanksgiving Tammie, owner of The Coffee Cup located in Cameron, OK, was searching google for handmade mugs when she came across our website. “I looked at others but your product, professionalism, and website blew the others away.” Now we have her design ready for approval and we are eagerly looking forward to working on her first order of custom mugs!
Posts Tagged ‘Custom Mugs’
New Customer “The Coffee Cup” Cameron, OK
Monday, December 14th, 2009Olive – The shop dog
Thursday, August 6th, 2009This entry isn’t really about our custom handmade mugs, instead it is on our mascot Olive. In May of last year my wife Annie gave me a long awaited Christmas present in the form of a Mini-GoldenDoodle who we named Olive. She arrived weighing just over 3 pounds but took up a lot of space in our hearts!
The breeders wrote our name on her belly.
Amazing Stoneware Mugs – Amazing Images
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
The Wicher Garden – Queens Cup
Recently I was working with Sarah Stotts, from BedandBreakfast.com, on an article about my family’s Custom Pottery Mug business When she asked me for any new images of our handmade stoneware Jumping Rocks popped into my head. So I got on the phone and left a message for Matthew Lovette, Photographer, and Mark Smith, Photo Stylist, to give me a call. These two amazingly talented guys previously owned and operated a successful and nationally-recognized country inn, The Woolverton Inn in New Jersey before they founded Jumping Rocks Photography… Their pictures have been published and reproduced by countless publications and hospitality websites. You’ll find them in Washingtonian Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, Country Living, National Geographic Traveler, Forbes, among othersIt is not uncommon for our handmade mugs to ‘pop up’ in many of the distinguished properties that Jumping Rocks works with. Here are a few of the images that Matthew gave me permission to post online. I am pleased to share these images with you!
The Richmont Inn – Tankard Mug
The Brampton Inn – Colonial Mug
Beaver Lake Cottages – Flare Mug
The Wicher Garden – Custom Mugs ready to serve
We are passionate about the work of our hands, and when photographed in the setting in which our handmade mugs are found – they look stunning! Visit these properties and enjoy the time you have, purchase a mug to remember that time… And every time you drink from that handmade coffee mug you will be able to recall the details you loved the most!
If you have a property or business that is in need of mugs just give us a call – we look forward to hearing from you! Toll Free 888-646-0238 or visit us online by clicking here!
Custom Handmade Stoneware Mugs & More – Kiln Report 2
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Spring is finally in the air and I had a few minutes this morning to take pictures of the firing that took place yesterday. We fire the kiln 4-5 days a week, each glaze firing heats the stoneware inside up to about 2350º F and takes 24 hours to heat up and cool down. Like most commercial and handmade pottery we have 2 firings; bisque, and glaze. The bisque firing is the first and heats the our handmade stoneware up to 1600º F over the course of 12 hours. I’ll take some pictures of the difference in air dry, bisque, glazed and then glaze fired in the next report.
Now for the mug shots:
Clay Corner – Burgundy, Colonial Mugs
Innkeeping Conference and Trade Show – Paii
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Not sure where you were from the March 30th – April 2nd…
My family (mom, dad, aunt and wifey) spent 4 days in Atlanta talking about our custom handmade stoneware mugs with some of the best innkeeping professionals in the country. We’ve been working with the Professional Association of Innkeepers International (paii), the sponsors of the conference, for over 26 years! There is a very interesting story here that is on it’s way…
For Deneen Pottery the event is a sort of family reunion with established and new customers that all find (or will find) success serving and selling the handmade custom mugs that we make. Below Julie Rolsen from the Garth Woodside Mansion, a dancing diva and highest seller of our Deneen Pottery Mugs!
Julie Rolsen with Annie and Mary Deneen
Peter Deneen at the Illinois Conference
Friday, March 27th, 2009No early retirement for Peter Deneen.
At the start of this year with all of the economic uncertainty we decided to head out to more bed and breakfast conferences in the hopes of attracting new customers. A few weeks back my dad attended the Illinois Innkeepers conference where he met many lovely people that had not heard of Deneen Pottery, and were unfamiliar with our hand made mugs.
Peter Deneen at the Illinois Conference
First Handmade Stoneware Testimonial!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009With each order that we ship, we hope to meet or exceed our customer’s expectations… Now and then we are lucky enough to have a reaction like this:
Dear Niles and Teena,
I want you to know that our new custom mugs are simply spectacular. The logo has depth, every detail is perfect and I’m thrilled to once again have Deneen Pottery mugs in the inn. They look rich and I’ve already sold two in spite of slow business.
Susie Goldsmith
Boreas B&B – Long Beach, WA
Footed Mug Navy w/Sky Blue White Top
Susie has also posted a blog on her site about her new handmade mugs, read more…
Custom Handmade Stoneware Mugs & More – Kiln Report
Monday, February 16th, 2009
It was a cool and sunny weekend here in Minnesota and we had a firing that took place. Today I photographed a few pictures of some of the handmade stoneware custom mugs that are just about to be shipped.
Custom Handmade Round Belly Mug