There is something so fascinating to handcrafted smoke-able Christmas ornaments. As a self-proclaimed holiday hater but gift-giving enthusiast, Christmas is the time of year for me to shelve the laptop, gallivant into the city and duke it out with the other hustling flea-market goers for the raddest and most one of a kind gifts there are. Luckily there is Ruth Plaster (real last name) founder of MudHedz.

A dumpling you can smoke, hell yeah! An also smoke-able rainbow farting baby, what a metaphor!

If that lovable stoner in your life is always asking for money, why not change it up and give them the gift of a native Newtonian as well as longtime working artist & teacher making Boston that much radder since the 1980’s and onward for as long as her pipes and many other of her works stand strong.

Ruth’s love of the small and handmade is a response against the computer age and separation we have of things that 150-200 years ago, maybe less, we would have had to make ourselves. ‘Hey nice sheets you have, did you sew them yourself.’ Those boxes of novelty mugs in your attic, did you mold all those yourself too?

‘No one makes anything anymore’ she says pointedly over the phone. For many people, respite from the hustle of market places during the holidays is a light at the end of a wormhole. But why enter this wormhole at all? During this time of year, between the regrets of Christmas Parties, the worries of inlaws and distant family, nothing says ‘vibe out’ like smoking out of a Jalapeño & taking your lovely partner or best friend to an intimate evening of beginner pottery classes. An ogler of pottery myself, but never a doer, Ruth’s advice if you fancy pottery is to take beginner courses at your local pottery studio.

But if that is too much too cram into that busy schedule of yours, don’t miss MudHedz at the Black Market Flea December 10th at the Cambridge Elks Lodge in Central Square.