Congratulations to the Ceramic Club’s Featured Artist, Lana Raptoplous. Lana has a longtime connection to PebbleCreek. She and her husband, Chris, were in the Phoenix area on business in 1997. They passed a billboard announcing “PebbleCreek Now Open!” and decided to stop by and check out the models and community. As so often happens, the following day they bought a house. Since they were both working, they used the house for many years to vacation from their Michigan home in sunny PebbleCreek. Their fondness of PebbleCreek continued to grow. Ten years later, in 2007, they were ready to retire and decided to build a larger full-time home in a newer division in PebbleCreek. By 2015 they decided to downsize. So, they proceeded to build their third home in PebbleCreek.
During her teen years Lana enjoyed ceramics with her grandmother. She, her sister, and cousins would meet at their grandmother’s home to work on their ceramic pieces. It was so much fun for all that her grandmother eventually purchased a kiln to speed things up for her grandchildren. Nostalgically, Lana still decorates with holiday pieces she made back then.
Two years ago, Lana asked a friend to take an Introduction to Ceramics class with her. She found she still enjoyed creating ceramic crafts and joined the Ceramics Club. She has made several pieces of which she’s kept a few and given away many as gifts. Lana has taken technique classes offered through the club, and her favorite technique is tracing designs and transferring onto a ceramic piece to create some outstanding pieces.
Lana joined many clubs when she moved to PebbleCreek full-time. Her main passion is paper crafting; making greeting cards and treat packaging using rubber stamps and ink. She is also a scrapbooker and enjoys Pilates.
Lana grew up in an artistic family. She has a steady hand (a ceramic creation plus!) and a good eye for color and design. She finds the assistance offered by the Ceramics Club instructors to be inspiring. They are willing to help plan any creation Lana envisions! Lana finds other members of the club enjoyable and she fits in well. We’re delighted to have her among us.