Royal Wedding Mugs Update.

Don't Panic

with only 5 days to go before the big day

The mugs are now past this stage.

and past this stage.

In fact the first batch are all out of the kiln.

I was able to fit 125 mugs in this firing.

They were a mixture of three different orders.

These are the first batch for the Village of Pitney

being packaged up by Marion

This is the final deal

each mug wrapped in tissue and placed in a bag

along with a certificate and my new leaflet.

This is part of the first order of 100 pots

ready to go.

and Dave who ordered them came and collected them on Friday.

This is part of the second batch for Isle Brewers Village

just waiting for the next firing to complete the order.

also in the firing are 50 for Hambridge school

and these should be completed by Wednesday evening.

But I've come in to the workshop this morning only to find the kiln had

stopped with the pots looking like they had reached about 300 oc

So I've had to put it straight back on

and keep my fingers crossed.

New Barrington Pottery Leaflet

I have now produced a new leaflet that people will be given when they buy a pot

it's a revised version of my original one

that we first produced in October 2008.

It folds into itself and this is the front cover

which is the same as the previous one.

I have revised the wording on the back cover

and added the local authority logos as they have helped me with the costs

of printing the new leaflet.

These next four pages which make up the inside of the leaflet

are all new.

I'm very happy with it.

The whole idea is to make it different from any other leaflets .

and I'm proud to say I think we have done just that again.

And Finally

I have finally had a picture of some of my pots

published in Ceramic Review Magazine.

I've sent a copy to my Mum.

she'll think I've made it.

Royal Wedding Exclusive!

First Pictures of the Royal Wedding Coffee mugs.

These are going to be either given to school children in the area

or sold to raise school funds.

In total I have 3 orders that add up to 250 mugs.

The Royal Wedding is Two weeks today.

I've been putting in some long Hours and Marion

has been helping me in the evenings.

We are working on Two designs

One that has the slip sanded away leaving slip

in the wording to heigh light it.

and the second with wax resisit for the slip

and wax resist again for the glaze.

They are starting to come out of the kiln now so they should all

be done by this time next week

Certainly by the 27th at the latest.

Working Late is No Hardship in the Workshop Tonight.

I'm working late most nights at the moment

to try and get these 250 coffee cups out the door

by the end of next week.

I have 60 in the Bisc kiln cooling down at the moment,

working all day Wednesday , so 7 days a week yet again.

But stood here tonight listening to Football on Radio 5 Live

while I put on 20 handles is no hardship.

At this time of night the sun comes streaming into the

workshop windows and gives a calm warm feeling.

I couldn't wish for a better place to be able to come to work.

I'm doing the job I love and I'm very busy

What more could I wish for.

Oh!  

apart from a Chelsea win their 1 - 0 down at the moment.

It's a Mugs Game.

I'm getting into making the 250 coffee cups.

it seems like a heck of a lot of pots.

But I have remembered that back in 1981

 I made 500 mugs for a scout jamboree.

But I was only 19 then.

I'm weighing the clay 3/4 lbs for each one

but apart from that I'm doing them all by eye.

This batch have been turned and handled.

and these ones have had the stamped heart added.

and these ones have had wax resist painted onto the heart

and slipped in white slip.

They seem to be taking ages to dry

so I'm firing the kiln with other pots later today

to try and help the drying process.

Making sure the heart stays on is proving a problem

but I think we have cracked it.