More Glass Fusing with clear glass and copper and brass inclusions

I have been trying out some new designs with these copper and brass infused glass pieces. I have continued with the folk/Scandinavian inspired theme this Christmas and have added some little copper Dala horses and infused them between two sheets of clear glass.

 Opening the kiln to glass infused firings is new for me, its great! These little pieces have sparkle.

Dala horse boxed decoration

Teeny tiny copper and glass baubles infused in clear glass.

This is how I am packaging them, to ensure safe delivery. All available in Little Brick House on Folksy.com

glass melted into pottery dishes

The glass used is regular clear glass melted into cobalt glazes, I have melted the glass over a clay ammonite which was previously cast into plaster to make the mold.

The porcelain key in the second image was also cast and infused within the glaze and the glass.

 I really like using different clays together with different glass to create these effects, and as you would expect no two are alike. 

Here you can see the porcelain key immersed within the glass and glaze.

This mottled effect was made using dried glaze powder flecked onto the moss green glaze and glass added onto the circular porcelain disc

For more bowls made this way please check into my folksy shop where they are being sold individually.

Personalisation (Ceramic clouds)

These little cloud plaques have become very popular and I have made dozens of them now. These two have to be my favourites though

Glass fusion experiments

After a recent course I attended in Glass fusion, we have implemented this into the Art department. 
Here are some of my pieces from the course and experiments since. 

Glass fusing with copper inclusions

Also with copper inclusions and lots of glass bead, done on the course.

These I did at home and have not been fired just yet, they are clear glass with copper and brass sheet inclusions.These I have made at home.

This one I also did at home and fired but as you can see it is underfed as it hasn't fully fused.

Also a small piece made on the course

Nice little write up

I was recently contacted by one of the editors of this lovely magazine about my black clay salt and pepper pots. 
Here it is!
Very nice,

Thank you all at Landsape magazine for the inclusion!
           x

New Work, Folksy revamp

My Folksy shop has had a well needed update, its always been the little part of my business, since joining such a busy site as Noths. So I have uploaded some of my individually made planters and glass bowls and given it a fresh look with some newly made pieces. 

Here are a few of them....

Small Sculptural Planter

Indian print block conical planter

Ammonite printed bowl with recycled glass centre

Student work

Glass melting in ceramic form

This piece measures approximately 35cm x 30cm, and was made from stoneware clay and glazed with a white chun glaze and crushed glass within the cups.
Fired 3 times.

Silver Birch Ring Pots

Really looking forward to seeing how these turn out once they are fully dried.

The lids are sliced, however discovered that they are still holding a lot of moisture, so their centres haven't been drilled out yet. I really like the bark on silver birch trees, and was very happy to have found this branch to see how they look once all finished.

Ceramic Plant Markers

Time to get those veggie patches in order.
Ceramic lace print plant markers for pots and the ground, perfect for identifying your seedlings. Write on with a pencil and re-use by scrubbing off later.
Easy peasy!

Frost proof too!

Glass and porcelain love

Just added these little clear glass and porcelain ear studs to my Noths shop.

They come with sterling silver posts and scroll backs and come packaged this way.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/littlebrickhouseceramics/product/melted-glass-and-porcelain-ear-studs

Little fluffy clouds making

Some more of my little clouds just been made.
Drying out in the workshop.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/littlebrickhouseceramics/product/porcelain-cloud-party-bag-favours

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/littlebrickhouseceramics/product/porcelain-cloud-party-bag-favours

Kiln Fresh glass and porcelain discs

These are fresh delights from a glaze firing last week.

Porcelain with melted glass discs, ready to have their silver backings attached.

Well Hello!

New products launched today.

 A little more playful than hearts and go with sweeties like a treat.

White Clouds

Something for the party bags?

You can personalise them too

Shop them here

Weddings and Rings

Ive been keeping myself out of mischief creating these little rustic ring pots which I can personalise for the bride and groom.

The pot above was made by my husband to keep our rings in for our wedding day. A little smaller than the ones I am making for the shop, this one only measures 4cm x 3cm, just the right size for our names and our rings, but I'm making them bigger to fit more lettering on and of course larger rings. We thought this was perfect for a Rustic wedding.
More info here.

Christmas Pine Trees

Available here:

Well seasoned

Salt and Pepper anyone?

New to Folksy

Personalised Wedding labels post firing

My last blog was about making these personalised wedding labels. They have had their first firing and I have tried one out on one of the jars I have been collecting.

These are the tags after the inicial firing, they have kept the curved shape during the firing quite well, so they should fit around the jars very nicely. 

At the moment they don't have anything to make the lettering stand out, so they will go back in the kiln after I have put some iron oxide onto them and given them a wash with clear glaze.

This is how I would like them to look, the lettering is a little darker on this one as Ive filled it with a fine liner to see how it would look, Ive tied them with garden string through the side holes to attach them onto the jar.
So easy

Personalised Wedding labels

These are initial stamped clay labels that will be used to dress up some flower vases and jars on a sweety bar at my wedding next year. 
They have been made flat and stamped with the first letter of our names and later formed around a tube to create a curved shape to them so that they sit around the jars. I plan to wrap some burlap or lace around the jars aswell so I am looking forward to seeing how these turn out.

Here is how they looked just after I had cut them all out them and personalised them.

Here is how they all looked after they were formed around a tube.
Here is how they looked after the first firing.

Wedding favours part 2

Always lots of weddings being prepared at the beginning part of the year, it begins to tail off now and I won't do so many for a while.

Here is my latest commission, instead on the central hole on the heart the customer wanted a hole on the side so that they could be tied neatly onto napkins on the wedding tables.
Im really pleased with these, very simple and a chic idea to tie them onto the napkins so that the guest names can be written on them.
120 just got sent out to there new recipient!

naomi.linehan@btinternet.com

naomi.linehan@btinternet.com

You can contact me directly for enquiries about wedding favours or you can view them here for more info