Dancing Pig Pottery

20/03/2026

Our F🧊 mugs in Tolkien's Hobbit Runes are finally up on our web shop! Limited numbers for now, more on the way, some still available at if you want to avoid shipping costs.

Also on the website, we've put our Arabesque pottery on sale - 20% off because Spring Equinox is happening on the 20th this year!

Find them all at www.dancingpigpots.com - link in our bio!

I gotta go put handles on mugs! Happy shopping!

19/03/2026

Our friends are in North Carolina this weekend at the Viking Experience! If you're there stop by & say hello!

17/03/2026

We finally have a date for the web store sale of our F🧊 mugs. They'll be live on our website at www.dancingpigpots.com this Friday, 20 March at noon eastern

This batch won't be huge - 5 each of the hobbit size and the make you feel hobbit size mugs plus a few sweary mugs in my new style (including the 'no n*zis in Valhalla' mug pictured here) but there'll be more soon, both online and at my upcoming Spring shows - more about those soon as well, I promise.

Meanwhile, my ducks are having fun & Kevin is keeping busy with me doing my part of the taxes

I'm also making bowls for empty bowls & fresh pots for - where you can pick up F🧊 mugs if you don't want to wait til Friday

I gotta go measure the capacity of these mugs so I can get the listings up!

Make good trouble my friends!

07/03/2026

The world is a smaller place today. Below is a link to a beautiful tribute to an amazing woman who was my Pennsic merchant neighbor for almost 30 years. I didn't know her nearly as well as I would have liked, and she stopped merchanting at Pennsic several years ago in unhappy circumstances, but I am so grateful to have had her company for so many years. She was an integral part of the fabric of Pennsic for me and I am both grateful to have known her and diminished by her death

Hail the traveler

https://www.facebook.com/share/1E8uUdd1Pa/

27/02/2026

Happy Red Hat Day! Today, 26 February, in 1942, the occupying regime banned the traditional Nisselue (house elf hats) that Norwegians had been wearing to signal their resistance to the German occupation. These hats have been adopted by folks in Minnesota and elsewhere as symbols of resistance to the current regime, and I made one for my sweetie who wore it on Saturday at a SCA event with his 10th century Norse kit.

Also, my F 🧊 mugs are finished and about a dozen are now available at in Hanover PA - these mugs say F 🧊, spelled out in the runes Tolkien adapted for his hobbits, and they are available in 2 sizes - small for hobbit size folks and large so humans can feel hobbit size when they use them. Regardless of size, 20% of my proceeds from the sale of these mugs will be donated to which helps feed folks in Adams & Franklin Counties

These are hard times my friends, but - or rather AND I'm so grateful to be able to use my skills to build community and help my neighbors

I'm visiting my sweetie in western NY til early next week but then I'm coming home to make more mugs & get some of the finished ones up on our webstore, so watch this space as we swing into spring there'll be plenty more happening

And thank you so much for your support

15/02/2026

Sunday check in with my favorite mug, decorated by the fabulous this summer - it developed the crack in front in the bisque so we dirty glazed it and I kept it!

Then we have the reason I don't yet have a web store restock and stock is getting thin at Serpent's Key - earlier this week I wiped out on the ice on my front stoop & borked my shoulder & hip, luckily nothing worse - I'm getting better, but slowly

These are the rustic mugs I've designed for political messages - there are 18 of them - so far my list has staples like 'no n4zis in Valhalla', 'f*ck that guy', 'drink coffee punch n4zis' etc... I'll happily consider suggestions for other SHORT phrases - even 'we're supposed to be antifascist' is a bit long for this lettering style, but there will be some of those soon, I promise (pictures are of political mugs from a few years ago - sadly I've been doing this for awhile now)

Not pictured, almost 40 mugs that say 'f*CK 🧊' written in Tolkien's hobbit runes which will be included in this production cycle

If all goes well some of these will be at next weekend and the rest online the weekend after that

Then some memes & a memory from last years

Stay cozy & safe out there: I gotta go carve mugs!

04/02/2026

Here's what I've been up to this week: working on mugs that day "f*ck ICE" in The Professor's hobbit runes
There will be 2 sizes: one proper hobbit size, and a larger version which will hopefully make you feel like a hobbit using a human sized mug.
They'll be finished in about 2 weeks, maybe a bit sooner if we're lucky, and they'll be available on my website & We'll be donating $10 per mug sold to my local food pantry

Also, I'm working on my hat but it's a slog cause my needles are too small for the bulky yarn which was the only red available at Michaels

And a lovely afternoon walk yesterday

I gotta go make coffee, preheat the studio, call my people, exercise, put handles on mugs & then drive my Moms to Hopkins for my stepmom's chemo

Have a lovely day folks and remember to look for the glimmers of beauty & hope and fight fascism as you slog through this February

02/02/2026

Hello friends old & new - I'm hoping to harness the turning the corner towards spring energy of Imbolc to push myself to be more present on social media - this seems like a good moment to reintroduce myself and hopefully reset

I'm Vee, I'm an ostensibly functional potter. I make mugs mostly which range from plain & sturdy through whimsical & pithy to timeless Celtic designs. I'm most of Dancing Pig Pots*. I've been making a life from clay all of my adult life, though at almost 62 I still feel like I'm an adult only technically, the way a tomato is a fruit.

I'm q***r, antifaschist, anti capitalist, a neurospicy procrastinator, an introvert who needs community. I only survive because of my families, both assigned & claimed. I'm your cheerfully crazy Auntie who wears most of the thrift shop all at once, is often baking or knitting and who processes world events through memes.

And coffee. i run on coffee & baked goods.

I live my in a barn which in turn is set in an obscure valley just west of Gettysburg PA. My barn has my studio on one side, my apartment on the other & entirely too much clutter in between, only part of it mine

I share my life here with Kevin the Wonder Cat & Remy, my ridiculous pitbull.They each deserve their own posts.

I also talk too much, so I'll stop for now so I'll have things to post tomorrow

I gotta go make coffee, exercise, tend to my correspondence, preheat the studio & call my Mom, my long distance sweetie & my best friend (3 different folks, in case that's not clear) so I can then sit down to make pots

*I'm most of Dancing Pig Pots but there are several other key folks who help the wheel turn, get the pots glazed & keep the kilns firing. More about them too, soon

30/01/2026

I stopped using Uline a long time ago, but for folks who don't know about the founders politics, now you do: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/uline-worker-resigns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

And hopefully you'll stop using them too!

Uline employee says she can no longer work for people who helped ‘America descend into fascism’

26/12/2025

Today's the day! Our Boxing Day Webstore Rolling Restock goes live at 3pm eastern and will update regularly till all 70+ pots are listed

We're featuring these offering bowls, which I haven't made in awhile - here's the draft description: These shallow offering bowls have the 3 feet that I also put on my cauldrons but they're wider and more open so you can use them for scrying, or, if lined with sand or earth, for burning modest offerings. These bowls are much thicker than my eating bowls (though they're still food safe) and should be safe to hold a candle or smudge stick, but as always, be cautious when working with fire, never leave a flame unattended and do not place this bowl into a fire or on direct heat source

Find them, with and without triple moon decorations, along with many other excellent pots at www.dancingpigpots.com (link in the bio)

24/12/2025

Our long delayed webshop restock is nigh! We'll have a plethora of pots available on Boxing Day, 26 December as a rolling restock, starting at 3pm eastern

You can get what you really wanted for the holidays for others or, even better, yourself

As always, the link is in the bio or you can find us at www.dancingpigpots.com

Here's some pictures of pots that will be in the restock interspersed with what I've been up during my winter hibernation - I hope you're having exactly the holidays you desire and that you'll find some pottery that you desire on Friday

I gotta go write descriptions!