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Shipley Studio

Shipley Studio is the umbrella company for Rod Shipley - Author, Shipley Studio Pottery.
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At Shipley Studio we produce the highest quality porcelain pottery with our non-commercial glazes and designs. All of our pots are created by Rod, bisque fired and individually designed by Sue and reduction gas fired to 2300 degrees F. Each finished piece is an attractive functional item that is microwave, oven, and dishwasher safe. Our colors range from pastel pinks, blues, greens and white to dark blue, deep brilliant green and earthen tans and browns

Address

8409 Magnolia Springs
Plantersville, TX
77363

Telephone

(346) 254-9651

Website

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Our Story

Shipley Studio was born in New Hudson, Michigan in 1986 as a studio for making functional porcelain pottery; Sue and I started morphing from Apple Lane Pottery; my mentor’s studio in the same town. Deciding to blaze our own trail when the owner decided to cut back his work schedule.

To compliment my studio work, I have had several unique jobs for the medical insurance they provided...and a steady pay check was no little matter. U.S. Marine,Wildlife Ranger, Potter, Reptile Show Performer and Golf Course Superintendent are just a few of my choices of unique job opportunities I have picked. I learned to keep journals of my activities knowing that some day they would be great fodder for memoirs that needed to be told and message delivered with the hopes of inspiring people of all ages to seek the adventurous route in life and not settle for the “norm”.

Being in the right place at the right time plays a big roll in one’s choices; and it is up to the individual to be smart and aware enough to see the adventure for what it is and have the fortitude and courage to grasp and hold on for the ride.

With arthritis starting to take a toll on my hands from the years of throwing, I have cut back my time in pottery studio doing just a few shows a year; choosing instead to direct most of my efforts to writing and releasing my first memoir, “The Adventure: The Art Of Earning One’s Stripes” about my five plus years working with exotic animals that took me through a whirlwind of constant adventures including raising a baby white rhino named Loretta to raising and training a pride of lions for to work in a Hollywood movie and escorting a shipment of animals by freighter to Japan; developing and preforming a reptile show for the wildlife Park upon my return.

In 1996, we were offered the opportunity to travel with our family to Kenya, Africa to build a ceramic factory for an ex-patriot from Kansas that owned a weaving business and wanted to compliment her weavings with ceramics. My second memoir, “Into Africa”, presently in the works is about our time in Kenya for over a year; living, working and safariing from Mt Kenya to the Great Rift Valley to Mombasa on the coast and the infamous Tsavo where two man eating lions wrecked havoc on the workers building the Kenya Railroad.

Just like the first memoir, this one is also full of photos to support the stories of me trying to do business in a third world country to our safariing on the weekends and our encounters and interactions with the local Kenyans and due out at the end of the year exclusively through Facebook and my personal web page store, www.rodshipley.com with all memoirs signed and or personalized by me.

One of my many other passions is photography that kind of went hand in hand with my life choices chronicling everything I knew I would need to support my stories that took me half way around the world and back again. All photos come matted ready for framing or unmatted ready for your personal touch. With many more to choose from as the memoirs are completed.

I hope you enjoy my Facebook site and my personal web page and sign up for my monthly newsletter www.rodshipley.com/contact and in doing so automatically are signed up for our special give away we will have throughout the year featuring extremely limited edition photos AND signed copies of the 1st memoir, “The Adventure: The Art Of Earning One’s Stripes”, and selected memorabilia from “The Store”.

PLEASE, do not hesitate to drop me a line with suggestions, complaints, a pat on the back for a job well done OR a good boot in the ass to get it in gear concerning for my web pages and works of the written word; because that is truly the only way I can feel the pulse of my audience and respond accordingly.

List of literary works in queue:

The Adventure: The Art Of Earning One’s Stripes - Completed Into Africa - In The Works The Evil Legend of Gyles McNamara - In The Works The Timular Incident - Story Outlined The Mallas Healer - Subject Matter Outlined Roll Them Into Submission - Preliminary Treatment

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