Sage Ceramics Blog
Guest blog from Hoogaly – Keeping our spirits up with crafts
Here at Hoogaly, we’re delighted to have been invited by Yvonne to guest blog on her wonderful website, Sage Ceramics. We just love her creations, don’t you? They’re so homely! So, I bet you’re wondering what Hoogaly is, right? Well we’re all about homeliness -...
My garden studio
Hi everyone, I thought I would write a little bit about my studio today for those of you who don't know the set up here. We moved to our Victorian end of terrace two up two down, nearly 3 years ago, there was a garden shed here at the time, but it was very small and...
Challenges – No. 2 Measuring cups
Hi everyone, Following on from my previous post, this challenge was to make a set of 3 stacking measuring cups for cooking purposes, in one, half and quarter cup sizes. I also incorporated a small spout on each. I already had a set of rubbery, plastic measuring cups...
Challenges – No. 1 Terraccota v red
Hi all Playing catch up with my blog at the moment as once again I can scarcely believe my last post was in February. The world has been turned on its head since then in a way none of could imagine.....but here on this little blog I shall concentrate on all things...
Dates for 2020 markets and events
Hi everyone As promised, here are some diary dates for markets and events I’ll be attending in the next 6 months or so:- Storrington Community Market - held in the village hall in Storrington from 9.45am to 11.15am. This market is on every Friday morning, and I plan...
Time lapse
Hi everyone After a technological mishap, so to speak, my website has been out of action for about 6 months and several years of blog posts have unfortunately been lost - nevermind, these things happen and all is back and up and running again thanks to Liz at...
High summer (sweet peas and poppies)
Hi everyone Hope you are all enjoying our summer which has finally arrived! The studio, even though it’s north facing has been quite warm recently to say the least – especially when the kiln has been on (which seems to be every other day at the moment!). It has been...
Where did July go?!
Hi everyone As usual I seem to be chasing my tail! I have no idea at all where July went to…….we had a nice but rather damp holiday in Cornwall, came home and the sun came out – such is life! I went straight back into potting, making up a 40 piece order for a...
Single flower bottles
Hi everyone Once again the time has flown since my last blog and we are now half way through June! May has been a lovely month with the most amazing displays of bluebells I think I have ever seen! The single flower bottles (below) were a bit of an experiment, but I...
Strawberries
Hi everyone I drew my strawberry design back in February and have been itching to put it on some pieces of pottery, but thought I really should wait until ‘strawberry season’ had started! So here we are, its June, and here are a couple of my new pieces (these are at...