I love Matcha, the stronger the better! Matcha is a type of Japanese stone ground green tea which is a fine powder. It’s got quite a distinctive grassy taste which can be quite bitter. Generally I order my tea from Japan Center. They have a really huge selection of Matcha and they’ve even started stocking cooking grade Matcha. I often find that Matcha looses it’s taste over time so I would recommend once you buy it to do so in a small quantity to use it more quickly.
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A few weeks ago I posted that Cat yarn bowls would be available in the shop as made to order items. The listing for this is now live so they’re now ready to be ordered! I was keen to get the changes to yarn bowls completed before the busy winter season starts.
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I’m currently renewing the line of yarn bowls offered in the shop before the autumn/winter season. After retiring the Snail yarn bowl I was looking to replace it with a new design. When I make yarn bowls I get custom requests for pieces with a particular motif. Over the years I’ve gotten a lot of requests for cat yarn bowls.
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Recently I’ve been working on the Hambleton Sports Awards for 2017. Making awards is an opportunity to do something different. A lot of the time in the studio I work on items which have a deeply practical function. Like bowls and plates, they are intended to be used everyday. Commemorative pieces on the are one off items where the function of it is actually secondary.
Moon yarn bowls have had a temporary rest from being in the shop. I wanted to alter the design on these pieces slightly for the Moon side. Each one of these yarn bowls is thrown by hand and then the sun and moon are cast from a plaster sprig mold. Basically it means that these medallions are modeled by hand once and can be reproduced multiple times.
Hello! I'm Victoria and I make hand thrown pottery. I create pieces designed to be used and loved everyday. Find out more about me.
