Slip Slidin' Away!!!

So it’s official then…Rudolph Clay Studios will be moving north to Gainesville! Cheyenne has been accepted into the graduate ceramics program at the University of Florida! So congratulations to Cheyenne, I’m very very proud of her. It has only been about a week since we found out, so we are still trying to wrap our minds around this pretty significant “life change” we have ahead of us. There is a lot to do before we move to Gainesville, but we are as excited as we are anxious. Now that the announcement has been officially made, we have to get cracking on the long list of tasks to complete before we can go. We are hoping to rent our house! It’s a cute little cracker-style house with detached studio in a great neighborhood near downtown Bradenton. If anyone is interested please contact us and we can give you all the details. Our hope is to rent the house so we won’t lose it, unfortunately we just can’t afford to pay rent up in Gainesville and a mortgage down here. We love our little house and hope to rent it to folks we trust that appreciate its historic charm and value the studio. School starts in August so we really don’t have much time, so if anyone is interested please let us know as soon as possible.

That all being said…we are also looking for a place in Gainesville. If any of our Gainesville friends can point us in a good direction. We are not looking for anything fancy, just close enough to ride bikes to school and is cool with pets. Some place with a garage would be preferable so I could set up a little place to make pots. If anyone has any info that might help, it would be very very appreciated.

We do have quite the inventory of pottery in the studio, and as much as we would love to tote boxes and boxes of pots to Gainesville, what we would love more is get some of those pots in y’alls hands. If you’re local and interested in swinging by and looking through our inventory…please don’t hesitate to contact us for the best time to come by. We will be doing a Bon Voyage sale at home in the near future as well as at the RCS Etsy site. We’ll announce those dates before too long, but if you’re interested in making a purchase before then, just holler at us.

This is a pretty big endeavor for us to make the move out of town, if only just a couple hours away. I grew up in Bradenton, I’ve moved away and been back several times now, but this is very different, for me, for us. It’s different, of course, for obvious reasons, we own this house and sure would hate to lose it, but aside from that, we are taking a big step in our lives, a huge step in Cheyenne’s clay career, and a leap of faith for both of us. It’s going to be great, this I’m sure of. We are very excited to be closer to our good friends up in Ocala, and very excited to nurture new friendships with folks up in Gainesville. We are going to miss all y’all that we have grown so close to here in Bradenton, but we’re only two and a half hours away. My folks who have helped us and supported us in everything down here, thank you so much, we’ll make it down for family dinner night as often as possible. My sister and her beautiful family, we’ll miss you guys so much. I’m getting all choked up writing this actually. We’ll bring the blow-up mattress when we come down. Thank you so much to everyone from Bradenton, Sarasota, St. Pete and Tampa, from all over, who came to our sales and who supported us. St. Pete Clay and Craftsman House, Rudolph Clay Studios wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for y’all.