I wrote this last year in Lockdown 1, thats crazy isnt it that we have moved on and find ourselves in the future labeling lockdowns by numbers. As I update this post we are slowly coming out of Lockdown 3 in April 2021, still under many restrictions but life is...
My husband and I love having an afternoon tea treat when we have time together which is not often and I was wondering where this tradition came from. When we are away on holiday if we can’t find something that will pass for afternoon tea we adopt the local foods even...
Do you know that we run clay sessions where you can come and create an item by hand? You can make all sorts of things by hand with clay without needing a potters wheel. When customers book in to work with clay I always suggest they arrive with some ideas, then I can...
Have you ever wondered what happens to your pottery after you have painted it? Well first we ensure the description on your customer sheet is correct, so we can identify it when it comes out of the kiln to be wrapped. Then we sit your pottery on our drying shelves for...
Most of our customers have “met” Katy the kiln over the years, my treasured kiln who has fired thousands of pots over the 9.5 years I have had her. She was re conditioned in 2005 for me by the team at Northern Kilns and installed in our garage at home in...