Ceramic Twiggle Shoes

I Love this place!
It just so happens that I have a friend that joined this great place when it opened its doors quite a few years ago. She has now become the organiser of storytelling and runs a team of twiggles and boggles (Woodland and bogland creatures to the rest of us) and is an all round person of great ideas and creative and imaginative projects throughout the park.
I promised to make these little twiggle shoes for Bewilderwood a few months ago, so I finally set about making a pair. They are just the first pair, but I think each pair should be a little bit different, fitting for each character. The idea is to set them outside the twiggle houses you can see in the bottom photograph, and to hang them onto the trees where the twiggle socks are hung.

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I have rolled some of the clay onto some heavy weave fabric so they still have a fabric appearance once they have been fired. Cut out the soles and added the sides and added shape to the heal and have given them a little pointed toe.

Twiggle Houses high up in the Bewilderwood trees

Props to go!!

Scouting for boys toys isnt hard around my house. They are everywhere so there was no shortage in finding little props to go in the photos of my personalised cloud plaques.
After photographing Yoda, Darth vader, Frodo Baggins, numerous trucks and favourite books I settled for these....

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New ceramics for Summer 2013. Peg it & Decorate

Ive been meaning to show these on my blog for ages. 
It takes about 6 months for a new idea to materialise into something that I can finally show or take photographs of. 
These little wooden pegs have a magnetic strip on the reverse so they can be used on fridges to pin up cards, messages or whatever.
Covered in decorative paper with a little porcelain disc attached onto the top. 

Easy Peasy!!

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Kiln experiments, Melting glass, feather imprint firing results

For a while now I have wanted to try melting some glass in with my ceramic work during a firing. It is a bit hit and miss as I wasnt too clear about what temperature to fire too, I fire the kilns high so I thought that results wouldnt be too good.
But I fetched these out of the kiln today, just tester pieces for now but I think I will definitely be melting more glass into my bowls. I like the results.

These bowls have got a feather imprint and a little iron oxide over them,
they look like leaf veins but they are actual feathers

Glass beads that I have used to melt onto the ceramics

Progress Report... Cone shaped Garden Planters

On my bench at the moment are these conical shaped garden planters. 
This is greenware, which is prior to first firing and I can't quite believe how fast my work is drying out, all this sunshine makes life so much easier especially working with clay and getting work finished in a reasonable time frame seems attainable again.

At the base of each planter I have left a little opening to let the water drain away from them once planted up.

Heres one not sold from last year, with a little succulent planted up from last years stall.
Ive got it hanging up outside the workshop.