Teeny Weeny Buttons..................

A little while back I was asked to make some tiny porcelain buttons to fit onto a newborns hand knitted jacket, it did prove to be a quite fiddly at the time but as you can see they have been retrieved from the kiln and they have turned out rather well.
Little did I know the fiddliest of all tasks was about to take shape.......

Threading with fine copper wire onto a backing card!
How else will I keep myself from losing them all?

Some daisy printed ones.
Ahhhh done.......

and some smooth sanded ones.


For more info and prices of these weeny baby buttons please check into my shop

Just in time for Easter.... Childrens clay egg cups!

The latest firing contained these lovely crank clay egg cups made by the 4 & 5 year olds at school. I can really gush about these because they did a great job and they all look so good, some may even be big enough to hold a real egg, others made by smaller hands may just have to be sat on a window sill. Here are the finished eggs....



If clay is your thing and you are looking for ideas suitable for childrens projects this is the book. I've found it a really good source and it has loads of things to make for a spectrum of ages, quite experimental stuff to the beginnings of jewellery making and sculpture.
Clay projects for children by Monika Krumbach



Just Hatched...... and still warm!

Unloaded these from the kiln today, been busy adding wire loops to hang them then making good use of the sunshine to take photos. Listed in the Folksy shop.

Here are some more listed on Folksy. Birds seem to be a bit of a thing at the moment and these have proved quite popular, also making good use of those printing blocks!!

~ Love Book Ends ~

These lovely oak bookends were made for me back in March. They have been made from slices of oak, the heart shape insides were routered out then sanded and oiled.



More Handmade Soap

I thought I would try out a new recipe which uses all natural ingredients again. This time I made the basic cold pressed soap recipe used previously for goats milk and almond butter soap but omitting the almond butter, goats milk and the essential oils, instead I replaced those ingredients with wheatgerm oil, calendula petals (dried marigold petals) and orange essential oil and mixed all together.

Here are the ingredients for making a moisture rich soap.

Here's what it looked like after adding some of the petals and orange oil.
Smells yummy already!