(This post was first published over on Chris’s personal blog, here.) We live in a seemingly perpetual Advent. Not just because of all the early Christmas decorating, but because we are all still waiting; for vaccines, for ‘normality’, for release, for and end to isolation and for the possibility of touch. Strange then that […]
This year, we decided to focus our attention on a limited number of Christmas decorations instead of spreading ourselves too thinly. Last year Karen and I had a competition to see who glazed the most decorations. Karen won by glazing lots of workshops decs and I made her a special one-off as a reward! But this […]
We’re very excited to say that we won a prize this weekend at Potfest. Every year there is a (very friendly) competition for the potters taking part in Potfest Scotland and we entered our ‘girl, amended’ into the competition – created from a broken sculpture, as the theme this year is ‘recycle, rebuild, repurpose’. We were […]
We’ve just watched a beautiful talk by Rob Bell called ‘Drops like stars’. It was about the way that destructive forces, like bereavement, betrayal, debt, changes things for us in a positive way – the way that they define the future and the choices we make. He wove so many stories through the talk, including […]
We are always growing and developing what we do, but what has stuck for many years now is our colour scheme and logo, used in paperwork and on the website, as well as leaflets, business cards and labels. So, I wanted to give a shout out to Enterprize web Design and Print Ltd in Lancashire, […]
Seatree is a small, independent business; what we like to call our ongoing experiment into living creatively and sustainably. It has been a labour of love for both of us for four years now. Like many businesses, the pandemic has forced us to do a lot of rethinking. We know that we need to make […]
We are doing a community project as part of our local village festival. That is what this wee video is all about… For those of you who need to know, these are the other instructions; Pinch some pottery! It’s simple! Take the ball of clay and briefly roll it back into a ball if it […]
Recently Michaela has been untertaking a course with the brilliant Design Trust, intended to help us develop new skills around making our website more effective because, after all, this online selling thing is a brand new world for us. She was both surprised and pleased that the course first encouraged participants look at what their […]
We’ve missed people’s creativity and energy around the studio and so cooked up an idea. After lots of research and trials, we are now up and running with Workshops in a Tin. How does it work?It involves sending you a slab of clay, with instructions and design ideas. You need no experience, but if you […]
Five things we’ve learnt during lockdown… .1. Websites Chris has been busy working on the website and as most of you will appreciate, that’s a steep learning curve. Check it out here – we’d love to hear your thoughts. We now have a shop online! How exciting! Michaela is also doing a brilliant course with the Design […]