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July 9, 2010

My Creative Space – Glazing

Hop aboard my spaceship (aka workshop with bubbly silver insulation lining), and find out what I’m up to today!


Yesterday I completely cleaned out the whole of the workshop, including sorting, tidying and hoovering, in preparation for a big glazing session. (I am more motivated to work when the space around me is clean and tidy).


Today I’ve laid out all of the work that I’ve been making over the past few weeks, ready to be glazed. To me, glazing is a chore and I don’t enjoy it much, I prefer the actual hands-on making process. But glazing is necessary so someone’s got to do it! I’ve decided that when I’m famous enough to employ an assistant, they can do all of my glazing 🙂

As you can see, surface space is a little limited in the workshop so I usually improvise with wooden boards and prop them up as shelves wherever there is space, mostly for the flat pieces to sit on such as plaques and coasters.

If anything, I do enjoy deciding which designs and colours should be used for decorating each piece. I never decorate 2 pieces the same, as all of my pieces are one-offs. Below your’ll see some plaques I made when I was in a fun mood. They aren’t the kind of designs I would normally use but I felt like making something different to my usual style. I’ll see how things go with them.


Some new buttons are also all lined up ready to be decorated…


And I’ve even resorted to using a large piece of cardboard as a shelf!

Off I go to complete my mission, wish me luck!

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4 Comments
  1. littlewrenpottery.co.uk July 9, 2010 at 9:44 am Reply

    Liking the look of those plaques hope they come out well for you!

  2. Red Bird Jewellery July 10, 2010 at 7:18 am Reply

    good luck!!

  3. Quite Contrary Crafts July 27, 2010 at 9:33 am Reply

    I love your pictures, it's really interesting to see your work in action! I like your new plaques too (butterfly addict here ;0) )

  4. Your little buttons are gorgeous, and I am jealous of your little work space in the garden! 🙂

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