Cup - Tumbler by Bella Joy Pottery

Add a splash of color to your drinkware with these fun handcrafted stoneware tumblers! These are the perfect cup for juice, kombucha, ice tea, lemonade, or mixed drinks.

This handmade stoneware tumbler is 5" high and 3" wide and holds 10oz.

Food, dishwasher, and microwave safe.

Because this item is handmade, it will vary slightly from the image shown.

Handmade stoneware pottery by Heidi Fahrenbacher of Bella Joy Pottery in Plainwell, Michigan.

I'm Heidi Fahrenbacher (fair-en-bach-er). I am the artist behind Bella Joy Pottery. Each piece is handmade with the intention to make you smile, to bring you a little joy. 

I create Bella Joy Pottery for daily rituals - drinking coffee, eating lunch, watering your plants. Frivolous? Not at all! Life is better when you enjoy the small things.

I started Bella Joy Pottery in 2006, but my love affair with ceramics started much earlier. At 15, I took my first ceramics class and I was hooked. I was also awful. Awful. I struggled at the potters wheel for years, but liked the challenge. In college, I wanted to become a gerontologist. Before the beginning of my sophomore year, my dad sat me down and advised me to do what I loved instead. (What a good guy!) I went to the registrar's office and changed all my courses for the fall. Looking back, it was the correct decision.

I launched Bella Joy Pottery out of a former chicken coop in 2006. In 2017, I flew the coop, to a new studio in Plainwell, MI, smack dab between Chicago and Detroit. Each design begins on the pottery wheel with an original clay prototype before being turned into a mold and formed from liquid stoneware. Each piece is created, finished, and glazed by hand. All clay and glazes are made in house.

I am obsessed with color. When I see something I usually think I bet that would look better with some red or blue or green. I am inspired by the contrasts that make colors really pop like neon lights on a dark rainy night, brightly colored flowers against all green foliage, and autumn leaves vibrant against a gray November sky. It is these details of color observation that go into my pottery. My Brighter Days Collection has bright colors, lots of speckles (like confetti), and is ready to be used for merriment. The color choices even have fun names like 'pool party' and 'sunset cruise'. 

I am a friendly introvert, which really confuses people, but it is true. I tend to find the silver lining in most things and if not, I can at least laugh at myself or the circumstances. I tend to be kind, but have a low tolerance for nonsense.

If I am not in the studio you will find me outside either laying in my hammock or laying in the grass, without a blanket. I currently live on a 40 acre farm with my husband Joe and two cats, Midnight and Buck. I am always in search of the best homegrown tomato. I love swimming, especially in cold water, dance music, old Atari games, pickles, and anything with tomatoes.

Find more of Heidi's work here.