The Crafter's Corner

In love with these beautiful pieces which were made by one of our students. 😍 Underglaze work on black clay 💫🎨

We will have a big clearance sale next week at the harvest market as we need to make space in our shelves for new things. Come and visit our stall at the market to secure some lovely handmade ceramics for reduced prices. 🌸💫

We will offer a second date for the ceramics surface decoration workshop. Don’t miss out and safe your spot.

During the workshop you’ll learn several surface decoration techniques using oxides, underglaze, slips, etc. And the best part: we provide some pre-made clay pieces so you can practice these techniques and to take your reference pieces home after they have been fired. 😊💫

Please note: With your support you enable us to offer free workshop participation to our community program women. 🙏🏼🌸

We present our new ceramics available at the new farm shop. 💫🌸😊

This was our biggest order so far and we worked on those items for several weeks from end of last year till early this year. Now they are finally unboxed and ready for sale. We are super proud seeing everything looking so lovely in the shelves. Well done everyone at the studio for making all those items 💪🏼🙏🏼

Our ceramics at the shop consist of two ranges:
1) The Nasturtium Range. A seasonal range in a lovely green color inspired by Nasturtium plants. Several of these items feature imprinted Nasturtium leaves.
2) The WabiSabi Range. A minimalistic and organic range that celebrates simplicity and the elegance in imperfection.

All our items are completely handmade from scratch. No wheel throwing, slip casting, etc. employed.

The new farm shop at Spier is called ‘The Cowshed’ and you can visit it from today onwards.

Cats, cats, and more cats. 😊🐾
We just finished an order of cat themed mugs for an online shop. Each mug has its own unique feline character 🤩

We wish everyone a happy holiday season and good start into 2024. 💫

Thank you for all the support throughout the year. We are very grateful for all the students that came to our classes and everyone who purchased our handmade ceramics or supported us in other ways. 🙏🏼🌸

We are looking forward to see everyone back at the studio after a well deserved break and of course also to welcome new pottery fans and studio friends among us in the year ahead. 😊

And the 3rd part of close-ups of the works that were displayed at our end-of-the-year student showcase:

Pic 1:
INEVITABLE
Earthenware, glaze, rubber bands

Pic 2:
AN INVITATION
Stoneware, oxide, glaze

Pic 3:
GROWING BEYOND THE PAST
Porcelain, cyanotype, gold leaf

Pic 4:
BLOOM
Porcelain

Pics 5-8:
THE CYCLE OF CREATIVITY: A JOURNEY OF CATHARSIS
Stoneware, oxide, underglaze, luster, acrylic paint

Pic 9:
THE DUCK WHO LOOSES ITS FEATHER
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze

Pic 10:
HIDDEN DEPTHS
Stoneware, glaze

Some more close up shots from our student showcase:

Pic 1:
FORM-TRACE / TRANS-FORM
Stoneware, oxide, underglaze, glaze

Pic 2:
TRUE-SELF TOTEM - TEST 1
Stoneware, oxide, underglaze, glaze

Pic 3:
BREAKING FREE
Stoneware, oxide, glaze

Pic 4:
LEAVES OF LIBERATION
Stoneware, glaze, wood

Pic 5:
END OF REPRESSION
Earthenware, underglaze, glaze

Pic 6:
HOLDING UP
Stoneware, glaze

Pic 7:
ETERNAL GROWTH: HEARTFELT CERAMICS
Stoneware, glaze, plants

Here some closer shots of some of the pieces that were displayed at our student showcase:

Pic 1:
…WELCOMES BACK THE CHILD
Stoneware & glaze

Pic 2:
MIXED EMOTIONS
Stoneware

Pics 3 to 6:
NO RULES
Stoneware, glaze, paper

Pic 7:
THERAPEUTIC PINCH POTS
Stoneware, glaze

Pic 8:
LET IT GROW
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, plants, water

Pic 9:
TALL TRANQUILITY: A GIRAFFE‘S JOURNEY
Stoneware, underglaze, glaze

Pic 10:
PROCESSED
Stoneware

What a lovely day … we celebrated the end-of-the-year season with our annual student showcase today. It was wonderful to see all the amazing creations and amazing I spent to time with everyone who joined and supported us. Thank you 🙏🏼🌸

Looking already forward to next year’s exhibition 😁

We are excited to announce our end-of-the-year exhibition which will take place at our studio. The exhibition and the studio will be open to the public between 2&5pm on 1st of December. 🌻

Aaaand another commission we finished this week. 🥳
This one is also made by Heidi and Irene. 💫 The rest of our group was also super busy the last weeks as there were lots of cat bowls to be made and painted for our fundraiser with Animal Welfare Stellenbosch. 🐾🐱
We also have more exciting projects coming up soon … so stay tuned. 😁

It’s done 🥳 One of the larger commissions we were working in the last few weeks … and what a ride it was. 😅
The set is completely handmade by Heidi and Irene and is ready for its delivery to Cape Town. 💪🏼

We had an amazing flower arrangement workshop at the studio this afternoon. 💐 It was great to learn about different arrangement styles and flowers in general. Thank you for hosting this lovely workshop in our space and for all the pretty flowers and other goodies that each participant was able to take home. 🙏🏼💚🌻

Work in progress 💫 … we are busy with some commissions at the moment. This one is a crockery set for an Airbnb in Cape Town. The ladies are also busy making more soap dishes for a local soap shop. 💪🏼More updates soon.

Buttons, buttons, buttons…just out of the kiln. 💫 There is also another batch in the making … some porcelain buttons to look forward to.😁

The Crafter’s Corner participated this morning in a community session in collaboration with . We welcomed 18 young girls from the Rock Solid NGO and spend two hours of creative time with them. Very grateful for the experience and opportunity to meet these lovely young souls. 🙏🏼🌻

Hand built with rims that function as water seals. 💫

Building these pots is a bit of an engineering task but all worked out well. Now they are ready for making or other 😋

The green pot was made by Irene who helps to keep the studio running. 💪🏼

The cream coloured pot was made by Heidi who facilitates our classes.

We started a new craft project 💫… a monthly knitting gathering with our community ladies. It was a lovely first meeting were the women learned some of the knitting basics and are good to go to continue with there first little project until our next meeting. 🧶

Thank you for the great help and thank you also to everyone who donated some yarn and needles. 🙏🏼🌻

We are excited to see how the knitting project evolves in the future and what pretty creations the women produce. ❤️

Some lovely flower stands made by one of our talented students. 🌼😻

breakfast set. Made by Heidi () who facilitates our classes.

The set included originally also a set of nesting bowls but they turned out as a bit of a (see last picture). 🙈😅 It’s definitely a steep leaning curve trying to hand build super thin porcelain ware. 🙃

Some of the pieces from our recent kids workshop just came out of the glaze firing. They look great with all the lovely bright colors that highlight the little sculpted creatures 🐙🐠
Check out the in the second picture…there are even tiny little faces of the passengers looking out of the windows 😁

Some impressions from our kids pottery workshop that we had recently. The kids sculpted underwater landscapes with a variety of marine creatures … some landscapes even have sunken treasure chests and submarines 🐙🦀

Amazing to see how kids manifest their creativity with clay. 💛

The young artists came back this week to paint their creations. More pics of the finished pieces will be posted soon.

Some lovely kitties made by one of our youngest talents: Zane, 8 years. 🐾😻

Translucency 😍🕯

Porcelain tealight holders made by Heidi () who facilitates our classes.

Some more examples that were made with our new stack of 🌞

So much fun ... we bought a hole stack of new for the studio ... here a few first examples 😁🌻

Some upcoming fun for kids 😁 Please book early as places are limited.

Please note that this workshop will also help to raise funds for the in which we are involved. 🙏🏼🌊🐠

Just out of the kiln 😁 ... some examples of the lates luster ware. ✨

Wow .... how pretty is this glaze?! Lovely bowl made by one of our students. ✨