Last week the sun shone which meant it was much easier to get the dusty and unhealthy jobs done outside, including making up new glazes. We order a large batch of glazes every now and then and always try one new one. Sometimes it works and fits in well, often it doesn’t! There are a […]
Here’s a glimpse of our stall set up last weekend at Sheffield Ceramics Festival, which was a lovely event. The organisers were brilliant even down to working out the best place for our stall, with us needing boards behind to display the ceramic artworks. It was a little dark in the hall so we went […]
Here at seatree, we believe that community is vastly important. One of the ways this works is with time exchanges – we have some help in the pottery, always on a time exchange basis. Share and share alike. Gwen helps with glazing and in exchange with help her with DIY. Karen, pictured above, helps with […]
Every now and then, I make a batch of wee things – hearts, tiny ones like these to go into tiny glass jars, hearts with words on, small pieces of clay with just one word on to go in a jar of beach treasures. I find it very therapeutic. I have a pottery friend, Pauline, […]
We are taking part in March Meet the Maker – worth a follow if you do social media. Today’s daily prompt was ‘numbers’. Certainly, these are important in running a creative business – pricing, ordering, accounts, measuring clay, weighing glazes, deciding how much of any item to make. But we both agree that they are […]
We may have mentioned before that we love commissions. We don’t always say ‘yes’ as sometimes it really doesn’t fit what we do but often we can say ‘yes’. It takes a lot of extra work as we to and fro about design and thoughts and colours and ideas.. Here is a slab of clay.. […]
Well, here it is, 2022 and covid in the household. I am self-isolating and the rest of the family are staying away from others and still testing every day but are negative just now. I’ve spent some of my self-isolation time today speaking to my oldest pal, Ali, who is recovering from an aneurysm and […]
Well, we’ve had great news recently of getting into a number of ceramics fair which is very exciting and then terrifying! We’re mostly excited though! So, it’s all systems go and we’ve had the help of Em and James today. Emily has her own ceramics business and we have an exchange of time, so that […]
Where did January go? I’m just emerging into thoughts about what to create this coming year and I want to bring more wonderful shape and texture from our corner of the world into our pottery. I set out on a walk today to capture some ideas and this wonderful ivy caught my attention – what […]
The other day on instagram, I reacted strongly to someone suggesting I look up what the colour of the year 2022 was. It’s a beautiful purple called Very Peri. Quite often, people tell us to go with the latest colour trends – hot pink, metallic copper, etc. Each time I (maybe) patiently explain that we […]