Barrington Pottery Has Doug Fitch pots in stock.

First of all can I apologise for the time since my last blog.

we have had a very busy month

supplying the National Trust web site.

But last Wednesday we found time to visit our good friend

Douglas Fitch

http://slipware.blogspot.co.uk/

It was great we drank tea, talked about pots and drunk more tea

 We came away with 7 pots for us to sell in the showroom

 These Ginger jars are great.

 What a great trio

 I love this Jug

 and the decoration on this jar is just beautiful.

 These make a great pair

 Come and buy this Pancheon before Marion sneaks it home.

I love having Doug's work in the showroom

it gives me a chance to educate people about just how brilliant

slipware can be.

These are some of the jugs going to London next week

at 

Edwards & Todd

 Museum street London

 This was one of my new Loving cups

but it sold the next day,

I'm going to make a lot more of these.

 These Lipped Pancheons look great when they are freshly slipped.

 One shot is never enough.

 and here is a thing

Look at this 

I appear to have a mouse in the workshop

helping himself to my biscuits.

More pics next week.

thanks for looking in.

Working our socks off.

The National Trust article and on line shop

has been working very well for us over the past six weeks

but we really have been working hard to keep up.

we have been getting to the workshop early

and staying later.

I found time the other evening to treat the wood on our

workshop sign, as the court closes at the end of the month

be we are open until 22nd December. 

 The shot of the workshop above was taken at 7am.

 Keeping focused is the main aim

and keeping the quality of the pots as high as possible

is the one thing I will not compromise on.

So to help with this I'm going for long walks with Cadbury

and keep looking at my reference books.

This one is one of my all time favorites.

Such simple words 

 I want to find some time to make some of these.

 I might even try my hand at some of these next year.

 I made one of these colanders when I was at college

back in 1979 in stoneware and my mum still uses it.

So although we are very busy

it's important to keep an eye on the small details.

We have learnt a lot over the past weeks 

about dealing with on line sales

and I hope to do a blog soon 

about this.

But for now it's back to loading up another glaze firing.

National Trust Magazine Blog.

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Only 77 Days till Christmas!

That's only 11 weeks

It seems crazy to be thinking about Christmas

but before you know it, it will be all gone.

Our Ginger bread Men and gift tags have been selling well

since the 1st of September this year, yes September!

So on Sunday Marion started on our Christmas display.

We have decided to go for it big time this year, with as much

natural decoration as we can find. 

We are trying hard to keep the showroom well stocked

and I'm about to put up a sign in the showroom about 

ordering pots for Christmas presents, early

so that I don't have to be working up til 5pm

on Christmas eve as I was last year. 

So The last ordering date will be Sunday 25th November.

 So this is just the start.

 Now it's turned colder we are drying pots on the kilns as they cool

to gain a few extra firings a month.

 Marion has become my Ace turner & slipper

which free's me up to do more throwing.

 while Caddy is the star of the showroom when he's not asleep.

 You can tell Christmas is coming, just by looking in the hedgerow

 I couldn't resist taking this picture.

 Caddy does have a head

but I think it fell off laughing when I told him it was

almost Christmas.

Keep warm & keep safe.