$25 Cosmic Cup Sets

Support for the Kickstarter has been great! Everyone seems to love the cosmic glaze colors, but I completely understand not everyone can afford a Cosmic Mug right now. As a thanks for all of your financial backing, social media sharing and positive thoughts, I decided to add a more affordable reward level:

$25 Cosmic Cups, Sets of Four, LIVE on Kickstarter

300 sets of four Cosmic Shot Cups (that’s 1,200 tiny cups- WOAH!) are now available through Kickstarter. It will take me a while to deliver them (it’s tough to make a living by hand-making thousands of low priced pots) but more cosmic pots are getting into the hands of more people globally, and that’s a worthy goal. Because these tiny cups are so much smaller, faster and easier to create than Cosmic Mugs, even more people can now get a great deal on a set of cosmic pottery. I’m also happy to announce that we passed our halfway funding goal in less than a week! I’m so grateful for all of your support.

Cosmic Cups, Set of Four Shot Cups, Cherrico Pottery, 2015

Here’s a cool quote by Neil Gaiman on creativity and goal setting, from The Best Commencement Speech You Many Ever Hear

“…imaging that was a mountain, a distant mountain, my goal. And I knew that as long as I kept walking towards the mountain, I’d be alright.

– Neil Gaiman, Author

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Each pot is brushed with a line drawing that represents a Rocky Mountain landscape.

Mountain Signature

Ever since I was young, mountains affected me powerfully. I think of them as gigantic sculptures made by nature. Mountains also represent ambition. The idea of reaching the summit of a mountain motivates me to pursue great goals with my artwork. I shot this photo at over 12,000 ft. from the top of Copper Mountain, Colorado, US.

Jacques-Peak, Cherrico Pottery Signature Inspiration, Compressed

Kickstarter Staff Pick: Cosmic Mugs Available for the Holidays

Thanks so much to everyone who backed Cosmic Mugs so far! We raised over $10,000 in just a few days. WOW! That’s enough to install a studio furnace, insulation in the studio walls and to cover all costs of utilities to keep my clay and glazes from freezing this winter. I’m so grateful for all of your support.

$49 Cosmic Mugs: LIVE on Kickstarter

Kickstarter also chose Cosmic Mugs as a Staff Pick! This means our project could be featured to millions of people on Kickstarter’s homepage and social media!

Chris Hadfield, Card and Cosmic Mug and Planetary Nebula Above, Cherrico Pottery, 2015

This card was from Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who wrote me an incredibly humble, inspiring letter after I sent him a Cosmic Mug. You might recognize him from his YouTube performance of David Bowie’s, “Space Oddity” recorded on board the International Space Station. I want to share his words of wisdom with you, because it’s great advice that all of you can apply to your own lives. Colonel Hadfield said,

“I wish you all my very best as you pursue your most distant of dreams while celebrating the joys and victories of each day.”

 Col. Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

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Cosmic Mugs Available Tomorrow on Kickstarter!

The time has come…Cosmic Mugs are launching on Kickstarter tomorrow at 11am CST! I’m very excited to be able to offer a HUGE body of artwork to all of you at the lowest possible prices.

The first 500 mugs will be available for Christmas delivery, but they will probably sell quickly. If you want to snag one for the Holidays, be sure to watch your email 11am tomorrow to get the link for the live Kickstarter, or have a friend snag one for you. Cheers!

cosmic mug in front of Molecular Cloud Cluster, Cherrico Pottery

Studio Shot

Cosmic Mug Studio Shot, Brushing Copper Carb, Cherrico Pottery,

“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.”

 Mae Jemison, Astronaut

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Cosmic Mugs: Launching soon on Kickstarter!

Cosmic Mug in front of a Planetary Nebula, October

Thank you to everyone who entered the live Cosmic Mug Giveaway! Next Wednesday 10/4, ten lucky winners will have an email in their inbox for a Cosmic Mug to be shipped almost anywhere in the world, totally free!

Ten Free Cosmic Mugs

These mugs are very difficult to create, but I successfully made a bit batch and can afford to give them away for just one more week. The giveaway program increases your chances of winning by referrals to friends and family who might get a kick out of getting their own entry to win a Cosmic Mug. Good luck!

In less than two weeks, I will have a HUGE batch of Cosmic Mugs available at far lower prices on Kickstarter! Watch closely for the next couple email newsletters so you can snag one before they sell out.

Studio Shot

Pottery glaze transforms in the kiln firing by being heated to 2400 degrees F.

“In the case of the artist, I don’t want them to represent reality because I have that via my own telescope. I want and I need the artist to take me to new places.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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