A Girls best friend

Its a year since this boy came into my life. I don't know where I would be without him now

6 weeks old

Ceramics from the kitchen table

This time of year its horrible to work in my workshop, its cold and damp, altogether miserable, so I tend to bring clay inside and find somewhere nice to work, its warmer the clays drying as I work and I find Im more productive working this way until the warmer sunnier days arrive.

Ive had a few commissions and rebuilding stock for my shops, but I thought I would set aside some time to use a clay body I usually only use for small flatter pieces, it fires bright white like porcelain but it has some weight to it as it is stoneware, to make myself a large vase and some little ceramic spoons. 

This is where I set up these days.

Some of my salt and pepper pots waiting to be packaged and sent out to their new homes

Testament to the vile weather outside, my outdoor cat has even found herself somewhere cosy and dry to curl up

Adding new designs to my reusable plant marker range

Ive just added some new designs to my plant marker range, they went live on the Not on the High Street site this afternoon. I will continue the older designs for a while yet as they are still very popular and Im always making them along with my other products. 
Here they are:

Topped with a different shaped Bird

Topped with a butterfly stamp


Happy Potting!

commissions week. Head in the clouds

A week of small commissions, these two cloud plaques are off to their new home tommorow,

Back to work

The excesses of Christmas are now over and its been a slow start getting back into the swing of making things again.
I would like to make some changes with my work this year, and I hope to be moving in a different direction with some new ideas and perhaps a less commercialised route.
In the meantime though I am pulled back into replenishing a near empty Not on the High street shop, and some small commissions.