Now that I have retired and have time to create and sell my work, I needed a business name for the pottery. Steinhoff Pottery seemed obvious and boring. I tried, and failed for weeks to come up with a name I liked that seemed to represent me and my work. Then while drinking my morning coffee in my favorite mug I was looking at the happy dog print running along the border of one of my interlocking geometric circular prints and it came to me. A happy dog is a perfect symbol for my state of mind when I am working in my studio.