Garden Planters and Pockets

Just out of the kiln are these stoneware garden planters, always a gardeners favourite and great for displaying smaller plant species such as Alpines and succulents.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/littlebrickhouseceramics/product/damask-stoneware-garden-planter

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/littlebrickhouseceramics/product/handmade-sculptural-garden-planter

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/littlebrickhouseceramics/product/handmade-ceramic-wall-planter

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/littlebrickhouseceramics/product/leaf-stem-stoneware-plant-pocket

All high fired and frost proof, can be left outside year round!

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.

School Project. Clay Letter Tiles

Last term I worked with another parent from school and we organised and after school Wildlife & Gardening club which involved 15 children from reception year to year 6.
We made wildlife feeders, planted seeds, made twig sculptures, all sorts of activities were organised each week for the children to do. I had been thinking about getting them to make something from clay, perhaps some cane toppers or something like that. However, the other parent suggested making some kind of tile to have permanently in our school garden.
Well after considering what we could do. I decided that each child should make one letter to form a set of 16 tiles that will eventually appear in the school garden.

Each child had a 4" x 4" square tile and they set about finding leaves and twigs to roll onto the clay surface. (the leaves leave a faint outline of the leaf veins onto the clay, really beautiful) Then they formed a large letter on top of the tile and continued to add interest to the tile and make it their own.

Here are the tiles laid out on my workshop table (all but the U which came later and didnt make the first firing in time)
I have been back to school and a few of the older children from the club have since glazed the surfaces of the tiles, and all are awaiting the second firing.
  See the results of the second firing here