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!

Work station, clay pots and soap dishes. Greenware

My clay working time is now limited to 2 afternoons a week (and anything I can fit in over the weekend)
 My extra day in school has meant that I have to be more efficient with my time now and will probably mean a decline in how much work I can produce for my shops, so I have set all my larger items as "made to order" which I get on with over the course of the week and try to make a few new little things while I have the clay out on the bench.

I have had orders for my bird feeders and whilst waiting for them to dry a bit and work on again I have made these porky little planters.

These ones have an oval opening at the top with an overall oval shape to them and
the ones below are rounded with a rounded opening.

I love making these, they are perfect hand sized and it is good to be free with the clay and stamp
it with hessian, and my other tools. The grit you see on the sides is called "grog" which is ground
fired ceramic grit which will fire into the clay giving it a course texture. I like it.

I made this one last year. It has multiple layers of glaze and
oxide and has had a few firings.

Soap dishes ready for bisque firing.

These ones came from the last long Glaze firing.