The Lesley Mug

We all have that one mug that feels like a friend. It makes your morning hot beverage taste extra good, and your evening hot beverage extra relaxing. You pick it up and it just feels like home, and you miss it when you're traveling. 

These mugs are glazed with non-toxic glazes, and can be washed with hot soapy water or run through the dishwasher. While I have been known to put my own ceramics in the microwave, I don't officially recommend it -- the rapid change in temperature can cause the glaze to cool more quickly than the ceramic, which retains heat more than the glaze does, and so shrinks at a slower rate. This can occasionally call what is called "crazing" - small cracks in the glaze. This can happen immediately or even years later, and personally I've seen it happen on many of the commercial mugs I own that I put in the microwave often. 

Approximate Height: 3.75 inches
Approximate Width: 4 inches at lip of mug
Approximate Weight: 16 ounces
Will hold approximately: 16 ounces

HaldeCraft began with ceramics, soap, and yarn. I've been making ceramics since I was four years old, learning at the feet of my grandmother who had a home studio in the 50s and 60s. Currently I make slip-cast, hand-built, or wheel-thrown pieces (or a combination of all three) and then are painted and glazed and put through multiple kiln firings before being put out into the world. The yarn started life in 2007 in a small yarn store in Gainesville, Florida (Hanks Yarn and Fiber) and was then called "Perhaps Today is a Good Day to Dye". It has continued online as HaldeCraft HandDyed since 2011, and is hand-dyed and lovingly re-skeined in a small home studio by someone who loves the fiber arts just as much as you do. Making soap was a hobby that I had for years, and I started making soap for the yarn store, and continued when starting HaldeCraft. Lately I've picked up laser engraving, taking my craft to a whole new level. My pieces are unique, hand painted, and proudly made in my own home studio with confidence, mindfulness, and joy. Everything at HaldeCraft is created by hand, by me, in order to joyfully connect with you!