New Pots in the showroom at Barrington Pottery.

Two Blogs in one week

What's going on?

We have new pots out of the kiln on a Monday morning

the sun is shining, I'm on top of most of my orders

The Barrington Boar Wine coolers are next on the list!

Honest.

https://www.facebook.com/barringtonboar

But first we have this new large dish fresh from the kiln

it's 16.5" wide and is not our normal style.

Thrown by me and decorated by Marion.

This water jug is a new design, inspired by some mugs I made

for our neighbor Pat.

This large Cassoulet dish is 13.5" wide

and will me great for family meals. 

We also have one of our Live Simply bowls. 

a range of baking or serving dishes priced at only £20 each.

These are one of my favorite Jugs to make and decorate. 

This is a nice Jug made for an order. 

With names for a wedding on the front and these doves on the back. 

We also have new work by Malcolm Shepherd in the showroom. 

 Malcolm's work proved very popular the last time we had

it in the workshop.

and if you prefer your pottery

fired a little higher

we have some new work by Andrew Douglas

in the showroom.

So we have lots of choice, so now's the time to pay us a visit.

and don't forget

Play with clay!

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Busy @Barrington Pottery Summer 2013

With the holiday season in full swing

we are finding that we are getting more visitors in the showroom

This has an obvious up side in increased sales

but the down side means I'm spending

more time talking to customers

and less time making.

This knock on effect is proving to be good for us

in a number of ways.

If we are ever going to be able to buy a bigger kiln

we need to start saving money. So less pots made in the day

means the only way to keep up is to start working in the evenings

even more often than I usually do.

 

 This has the double effect of catching up on a days lost production

and keeping us out of the pub!

So we get to save some money and I've started to

finally lose a bit of weight

 ( still a long way to go).

 The new school Room has been buzzing every day

with Marion's Play with Clay

On every day in the Summer holiday's

(Except Wednesday's)

from 11am - 4pm

only £2.00 per prson

 Marion is letting the kids make what ever they want!

This is a Minefield

and so is This !!

 This was how I got started

I used to love just messing around with mud and water 

as a kid.

 So The stock levels are keeping up at the moment. 

 and I've made another large bowl

that is in the kiln now

Out Monday !

 I've been down to one kiln for a few weeks while I ordered

a new set of elements for the bottom half

of my number one kiln.

I fitted them myself and I'm chuffed at the fact that I think i've

done a very neat job this time, thanks to 

a bit of advice from the technical guys 

at Potterycrafts.

Back firing on all Cylinders.

Building up stock for the River Cottage Autumn Fair

7th & 8th September 2013
Tickets are still available from the link below
http://www.rivercottage.net/shop/product/river-cottage-autumn-fair/

We look forward to seeing you there
I'd better get on and make that Pancheon a lady has ordered
and is going to collect from me at the show.

5 Years on and not a pot in sight.

Today marks 5 years since Marion & I

 were made redundant!

Yesterday was the day My Balloon ride

that Marion bought as a 50th Birthday present

finally took off

I'm 51 now!

Having inspected the basket I was apprehensive but excited. 

These Balloons are Huge!

I helped as much as I was allowed with setting it up.

I was right next to the pilot, well you can't really

 be anywhere else in one of these baskets.

 This is looking up at the top of the conopy.

 I absolutely loved it the views were fantastic, and I just loved 

looking down at the fields, with all the detail 

you can't see from the ground

 The sun came out

 we went up to just under 5000 feet

 and the sun was setting as we looked for a suitable landing site.

 we were able to watch deer running in fields.

 This is a close up of a wheat field from above

it looked like a giant woolen jumper.

 we had a perfect landing in a field

what a great way to end the day.

so How do we top that next Year.

Well next year on the 8th August 2014

We get Married !

I can't wait.