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A Birthday Surprise, Cute pottery figures, Daphne the Dragon, Glazing Pottery, Simon the Snail, Sydney the Smiling Snail, Terrific Trio
I’m pleased to introduce; Daphne, Simon and little Sydney!! I think you’ll agree??…They are certainly a very happy looking trio ;-D !!
Sydney was my first ever attempt at glazing pottery (If I had known where we were going for my birthday surprise ~ I would have taken my glasses!) Still, holding him at arms length …to focus whist painting …..I kind of nearly got his eyeballs in…personally, I think it gives him a little character along with his very toothy grin 😉
Today, I finally got to collect my fired pottery!! A couple of weeks ago our lovely daughter organised a little surprise morning out for my **th Birthday! As it turned out, she had booked us a couple of seats in a pottery painting studio, not something I would have ever guessed!
On arrival at the Pottery, the lovely owner, Carol, asked us to select, from a huge assortment of pottery figures, something we would like to glaze. Whilst I picked three little ones, as we had about 2/3 hours in the studio, my daughter picked a stack of four turtles, very cute, but, a mammoth ask to glaze in that time, especially as it required three very good coats over the entire piece! We picked our glaze colours grabbed some brushes and set too! Sadly, lovely daughter didn’t finish her turtle stack…which means we will get to go again next time she is visiting…YAY 😉 However, as you will have seen, I did manage to finish all three, I’ve been so excited over the past few weeks wondering how they would turn out after they were fired?? I can definitely say, I’m thrilled to bits with the results 😀
A little close up of Simon!! I love the speckles in the glaze!
Daphne is sooo Cute!
Even the backs are perfect too! On picking them up, I got high praise for my first glazing attempt from the lovely owner, Carol 🙂
My terrific little trio are now happily installed in the living room! A fantastic morning out, fun, relaxing and very therapeutic definitely need a revisit soon 😉
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First attempt????? Wow you are very very talented indeed Caren.
Aw Thank you Sue 🙂 I really didn’t think they would turn out so well!
Cute, but surprised someone like you hasn’t had a go before now.
Me too when I come to think about it ;-/ just never was an opportunity to have a go before, without enrolling in a course. This was great as you can just pop in as and when you have an hour or so spare 🙂
This is one of the few crafts that I haven’t tried, too, and is up there with screen printing with ones I’d like to have a go at. Heavy hints in the run up to Christmas, d’you think? You did a good job and sounds like you had a great time.
Hope someone near and Dear is picking up on those loud hints 😉 LOL
I think if more little potteries were on the horizon and, offering one off craft sessions they would do very well!! Did have a go at screen printing once in a craft masterclass do organised locally, It was well worth having a go, but not something I would take on as there is a lot of procedures (and mess in the process~ though, maybe that was just because there were so many of us crammed into the session) As I remember, the lady running the class was going to take all the little children’s t-shits we made that day to a local charity shop, which I thought was really nice 🙂
They are so cute!
Thank you so much Divya, I found glazing very relaxing 🙂
Congratulations Caren, are really beautiful !!
My favorite is Daphne, a perfect choice of colors, is great 🙂
You have a lot of talent, also with ceramic glazes …
Thank you so very much for your lovely comment Belén 🙂 Daphne is my favourite too! I must arrange another trip to the pottery soon, it was such a lovely experience, and then my little trio could have another glazed friend to sit with them on the ledge 😉
I don’t know how but I missed this when you posted it. You did a great job, even without glasses. They turned out really well. Cute. 🙂 Any idea what you’ll try next time?
Thanks so much Sarah 🙂 It was a lovely few quality hours with my daughter too! This was a surprise rather than a chosen artistic explore, so, I think I will have to think about the next venture I go on .;-)
I’ve always wanted to have a go but I’d be nervous. I once did pottery evening classes though. The glazes had quite different colours before they were fired. Was it the same with your session, or were they a different kind of glaze? I would find it very hard to work with colours that didn’t appear until it was too late to change them!
Oh you must have a go Sarah if you get another chance 🙂 It was a little confusing as, Yes, the glazes were all different to the final finish but the challenge and the wait for the firing was definitely worth it. Hope to visit again next time our daughter is home for a visit!
I look forward to seeing the results if you go again. 🙂 I can see how it would be worth the wait; exciting even, for craft nerds like us anyway. 😉
I don’t mind being a craft nerd one little bit..I’m so easily pleased with the smallest and simplest of things and glazing pottery is right on up there! I’ll be sure to share when we eventually go back 😉
Craft nerds must be easier to live with than adrenaline junkies, don’t you think – cheaper thrills! 😉 I’m always astonished at how happy origami paper, pens, pencils or some yarn can make me.
LOL…if men only knew how happy, easily pleased and cheaply satisfied a crafter’s lot were….I’m sure they would all marry one ;-D
I’m sure they would :D, as long as they knew they’d probably have to sacrifice some (maybe a lot of) space for the stash…
LOL…Minor detail!! ;-D I’ve found so long as Dearest has his remote and a duster (to clear the straying fabric dust of the TV) he hardly notices that you have to tip toe around the house between art and craft stuff 😉
He sounds great. 🙂 A match made in heaven.
Most definitely!! Wouldn’t change him even if I had a receipt LOL