Little Wren Pottery is a handmade ceramics studio run by English potter Victoria Baker in the northern city of Sunderland focusing on functional yet decorative items for everyday use.

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19 Sep 11

Yarn bowls in Living North magazine

This month you can find my Yarn Bowls featured in Living North magazine! If you haven’t seen Living North before it’s a lifestyle magazine for the North East and Yorkshire promoting interesting places to visit and shop.

livingnorth 1 Yarn bowls in Living North magazine

It’s a beautifully laid out publication and you can find me in their ‘In Style’ section, I also wanted to say that the price quoted includes special delivery postage. In the UK I send out all my items special delivery so that they’ll arrive the following day after they’ve been posted.

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15 Sep 11

Making glass paperweights

glassmaking1 Making glass paperweights

My great grandfather was a glass blower for the Pyrex factory and because of this I’ve always wanted to learn more about glass. I never met my grandparents but I think through craft you can in some small way connect with your past, it becomes a very immediate physical link since making glass hasn’t changed for centuries.

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Tagged glass, handmade, hot glass, making paperweights, molten glass, national glass center, paperweight, sunderland glass center

6 Sep 11

Pumpkin orange – strictly limited edition

I quite like experimenting with colour, its funny how often alternative colours or shades makes a piece which have been made the same look so different. I particularly love it at fairs when someone comes up to me and says ‘I’ve never seen such vibrant colours on pottery before’.

pumpkincups2 Pumpkin orange strictly limited edition

Some little part of me loves how colour can totally change people’s perception of what handmade pottery can be. With that in mind you may have seen me posting photos over on Twitter or Facebook of a certain orange shade.

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Tagged handmade pottery, limited edition pottery, orange glaze, pumpkin, rustic stoneware pottery, studio pottery, uk

31 Aug 11

Sweet treats for Christmas

Yes, I just used the big C word. I know its only just the end of August but writing published articles pushes you into a schedule thats a month or two ahead of everyone else.

chocolates1 Sweet treats for Christmas

Since I got back there’s been so much going on and taking time to catch up is proving a little more difficult than I’d first thought. As part of my growing to do list I’ve been in the process of writing a new article for UK handmade.

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Tagged chocolates, christmas, handmade, handmade sweets, uk handmade

22 Aug 11

Handmade in Italy

Last week I was away spending some time off with my family in sunny Italy! Did you miss me? It was the first time I’d ever been to Italy and somehow I think it won’t be my last.

We visited the beautiful and historic city of Rome before traveling down to Naples and the site of Pompeii.

I’ve always found ancient pottery to be quite fascinating and there was plenty dug out from the rubble of Pompeii. I’d never visited a ruined city before that felt like it was still a real bustling place with it’s distinctive deep streets and tourists peering into shops and homes.

pompeii Handmade in Italy

I found these pointed carriers quite fascinating and when I asked about their unusual shape apparently they were made this way to fit inside a wooden frame and stored inside the ship’s cargo hold to make them easier to transport. It was amazing to see such a variety of bottle shapes, handles and bottle necks!

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