Some new creative stuff...

The Perth Studio Potters held its annual Mother's Day craft market on Saturday and here are some of the little beauties that I made for the occassion. Quite loving the pale blue and they looked lovely filled with Kym's Persian Love Cakes mmmmm...

And here is a little mixed media print that I made for the Year 9s who are creating prints to illustrate Aesop's Fables this term. I think it looks cute enough to frame for my house so I am going to get a few neat copies printed this week. Anyone want one while I am being productive??

Oh dear... a third of the new year gone already...

Not quite sure how it has suddenly become the end of April without my realising.
Oh well...Visited my good friend Lynda last week and took her this lovely bunch of herbs fresh from the garden, snail munch holes and all! She baked some rather lovely rasberry goodies and I got to peek at her lovely flat.

More crafty stuff on the way soon, I am just about to take a look at my first real kiln load of bowls for about 12 months... Fingers crossed!

Crimbo at the beach house

Christmas at the beach house! Where has this year gone? It has certainly been a busy one indeed.

In the recent weeks I have sold my wares again at the Perth Studio Potter's Christmas Bazaar. Plenty of felties went to good homes and I created two new products under the Suzie and Otto label; hand printed baby suits and lovely hand printed wrapping paper.

Some of the loveliness that was on the stall

Two weeks ago some students from school found a little kitten on the way into school in the morning. Since Mum offered to provide 24/7 support and friendship to Otto Hannah due to my extreme work hours in the second part of this year I have been a bit lonely at 48 Andromeda.... so look at my new house mate:

Meet Betsy!

Butternut pumpkin gone mad

About 5 weeks ago my lovely friend Kim of http://www.freckledgarden.com/ gave me two butternut pumpkin (squash to my UK friends) seedlings. This is the resulting monster! I have had to wrap it around the lemon tree three times to get it to fit in the garden. This weekend I brought the first pumpkin down to Dunsborough and made pumpkin scones with creamed honey and double cream. Delish! Not a brilliant recipe though... they didn't have amazing height so I think I had better repeat the activity with the next offspring from the beast.

Finally... I made a collection of Christmas tree decorations for friends. Here are a few decorating a little succulent and getting me happily in the Christmas mood.

Merry Christmas friends near and far. I will try to squeeze in one more post for 2009 and I will try my very hardest to be better at this in 2010 (I feel a new year's resolution coming on....)

Love Sarah, Otto and Betsy
xx

My Nest in the burbs

My little house is coming together at last. It had a lick of white paint over the holidays and is being filled up with my recent pottery works. The image on the bottom right shows three of my latest pots from the Raku firing. The yellow table in the top right is a bit of a DIY job on a garage sale table. Bottom left is a bit of a view of my little kitchen and top left is a couple of my pottery projects on display by the pond out the front.

I will try to get some more photos during the day while the light is better over the weekend so keep posted.

Raku Firing in Toodyay

I am lucky enough to teach a wonderful pottery class at the Perth Studio Potters in Cottesloe. This weekend we visited the breath taking property of Caroline and Lachlan in Gidge where we took part in a Raku Firing.

We enjoyed a shared lunch of homemade roast pumpkin soup, mulled wine, crusty bread and salad followed by home baked apple crumble, cheese cake and cupcakes.

Everyone had success with their pots and enjoyed the sensational late winter day. Thanks to Caroline and Lachlan for having us.

A few of the Art Ed'ers met down at the lovely Gen Baker's property at Toodyay and took part in the pit firing. We used iron and copper oxide, banana peels, copper wire, salt and string to create the markings. Although it poured with rain all night the firing was a great success!

There will be an article in the next Art Ed Journal with loads of photos of the lovely pots created.

Pit Firing in Toodyay