Another of the biggies that Doug has made. They take hours of slip trailing to decorate them! So much surface to explore.

Doug's been making big pots, I've been trailing miles of slip! I lost count at 850 ish dots.

We got our power back this evening, remarkable considering the vast amounts of damage from the storm. Huge thanks to all those working hard to reconnect folk. It's been a bonus, sitting by the fire reading by candlelight.
The stars have been phenomenal!
#darkskies #storméowyn #candlelight #slowdays

The Repair Shop on the Road - Series 1: Dumfries and Galloway - A Book for Lockerbie The team help commemorate the victims of the Lockerbie bombing, new automata expert Michael tackles a clockwork train, and Kirsten gets hands-on with medieval slipware pottery.

Well @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social Hannah and I were on the telly this evening, demonstrating slipware techniques on the Repair Shop. It wasn't too bad.

The section about Lockerbie was very moving, I remember it very well

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

On the telly tonight apparently.

@theslipwareman.bsky.social has his hands on the trailer for #therepairshop

Four big pots completed, ready to deliver to Kirkcudbright Galleries later this week, much relief from Hannah @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social and myself

Lovely fun in the snow with the wee ones yesterday. Not a bad end to the school holidays.

These are for an exhibition at Kirkcudbright Galleries later this month. Our first event of 2025.

We're making pots for Kirkcudbright Galleries exhibition at the moment.

Late night working with @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social, making collaborative big pots that represent the four seasons with Galloway flowers, for an upcoming exhibition in January.

This is a tall, slab built vase made by Hannah @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social and a moneybox I made, topped with small birds and a cuckoo whistle, inspired by antique versions that were made in the country potteries of Britain for centuries

We've had Border News filming in the workshop today. Our two little ones, Pippin and Fred, make sgraffito decorated brooches, which they sell to raise funds for the local food bank. Last year, they raised £851. This year, they're on course to beat that total, bless them ❤️

We had a visit today from Adrian from the amazing Northern Kilns. He fitted a new lid to the kiln that Hannah @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social bought from them twenty years ago. It's been brilliant, and the new lid should last another twenty, even if I don't!