The Story

It all started in 1999 with a few make shift tools from the kitchen, some clay and a lot of patience.  With just a few high school pottery classes under their belts, the Neff brothers setup their first pottery shop in the family garage and began making and selling Shroomyz ceramic garden mushrooms.  The first shop was quite rudimentary to say the least, plaster from the hardware store, super soaker squirt guns and chicken wire were just a few of the makeshift tools used to make the first Shroomyz.  If anyone remembers those very first Shroomyz off the press they truly were “one of a kind.”  Demand for the Shroomyz grew quickly and their college friends were soon recruited to help out in the JJ Potts studio.  Since then most of the original crew has moved on and got “real” jobs but, many of the current employees are still college students working their way through school.  Since leaving the garage, the JJ Potts factory has grown and more equipment has been added to the operation but the little cress kiln that was gifted to them by their father is still in use today.  The artists at JJ Potts create truly unique and colorful ceramic decor for home and garden.  Each piece is individually glazed and handcrafted guaranteeing no two pieces alike.