Summer Program

Summer Program

Dear Friends, It is nearly May and summer’s already on my mind!!! I am excited to release my ambitious summer plans to you before I put it out there in the public. First of all, we’re building an additional space in our garden to facilitate a bigger variety of courses...
New Year’s Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions

It is January and at the beginning of the year we try to make our planning, but also our new year’s resolutions. Seasonal planning for potters: Last year’s been crazy: starting in September preparatory works began for Christmas with a small interlude for Halloween....
“Slow” January

“Slow” January

The whole build up to Christmas has been intense, busy, sometimes even stressful. Starting in September I worked hard to build up stock, deliveries in November, kiln failures throughout November and December (still not solved), messing with glazes etc etc. However I...
Between New and Old

Between New and Old

Living in Ireland, we’re amongst the last to welcome the new year in Europe and since we have most of our family ahead on us in time, we generally start wishing well for the new year well ahead of midnight. It is quite funny that according to human convention we...
Building stress

Building stress

They say building or restructuring a house is one of the most stressful activities a person can go through… Most of my regular followers know that this summer we moved into our newly renovated house. So far so good. I thought that at that stage, the worst was...