OWLPOTTER@AOL.COM on tue 24 jun 03
In a message dated 6/24/2003 1:19:14 AM, clennell@VAXXINE.COM writes:
<< Just to get David excited about the list again I am going to revisit
signing
pots but with a new yet untalked about twist. Why is it that women sign
their pots with their given names- Linda, Diane, Louise etc, etc. I think
it is goofy. Diane who? Linda who? I have never seen a man sign his pots
with just his given name. >>
I don't know about other women, but speaking strictly for myself, I began
seriously making pots and selling pots while still married to my first husband.
About two years after a bloody divorce I was thinking about re-marriage.
Because I had taken back my 'maiden' name and the new man on the horizon was
adamant about my changing my last name yet again, I decided I didn't want yet
another name on the bottom of my pots.
I already had pots out there with Carolynn Crank, Carolynn Dank, and now I
was facing yet a third signature change - Carolynn fill in the Blank!
I did think of signing all pots, just "Carolynn" when a friend suggested I
adopt a "nom de plume" like writers do!
So I began signing all my pots "OWL" and it has worked for me for 32 years
now. Customers even refer to me as that "owl" potter.
-Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Center, Michigan
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