Objects

Posted on October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bag, Cushions, Description?, Disco ball, Dragon, Lion, Objects, Owl, Photos, Pottery, Random, Short story?, Sill, Spode, StarLeave a comment

A lion was waiting on a roundabout when it saw a disco ball in a hall window… The light from the sun reflected off it and made tiny stars sparkle off every surface. The magic it set off created a bronze dragon, which unfortunately was only tiny. It was seen by a bag in the shape of an owl. Which swallowed the dragon whole. The owl then grew new feathers of purple and blue wax. It flew over a lake with oriental buildings and trees. It followed an orange man walking backwards with his legs sticking through the bottom of a boat. Two people watched on in horror. Finally all the owls toy cushion friends stood and applauded as it flew in and landed quietly and quickly in the corner.

Yes that is a lot of silly words, but I’d gathered these odd photos together and wanted to describe them. Not much of a story really!

Today’s prompt

Posted on September 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Empty plate, Food, Magnolia, Plate, Portmeirion plates, Pottery, Salad, TastyLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt. It was meant to be a plate of food but I’d eaten it before I remembered! The depicts a Magnolia plant with butterflies on the plate made at Portmeirion pottery. I drew it using a black drawing pencil on cartridge paper in my little sketchbook. We had a salad and quiche. With whole grain mustard. Tasty.

Structure

Posted on September 15, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Band of sketchers, Drawing, Fire escape, Fun, Industry, Life, Pottery, Sketch, Stairs, SuperstructureLeave a comment

View of the fire escape stairs across the road. We live opposite a pottery and of course it looks industrial. The superstructure allows people to come and go at various floors. The doors are always open in hot weather and sometimes people stand on the platforms during hot weather. They have gardens and trees around the grounds. At least they are trying to green the area.

Potteries

Posted on August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Ceramics, City centre, Hanley, History, Plates, pots, Potteries, Pottery, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

The ‘Potteries’ is the name people call the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the North Midlands of England.

Built on the coalfields of the area, with an abundance of water and clay, it was an ideal place to start making pottery in factories during the industrial revolution. Bottle kilns, or ovens (so called because of their shape) were built across the six towns of Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall, Fenton and Longton. The six towns were bought together as a Federation in the early twentieth century and this created the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

The Potteries Museum and art gallery is crammed with beautiful ceramics and is situated in the Cultural Quarter of the city centre which is in Hanley. Also worth a visit are the Gladstone Pottery museum in Longton and Middleport pottery in Middleport (near Burslem). There are many places to visit here. Hopefully they will all be open again soon.

Tea set

Posted on August 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Antiques, China, China clay, Clay, Design, Life, Pottery, Tea set4 Comments

Bone China tea set my friend is getting rid of. I’m going to try and find someone who wants it. I think another friend will have it.

Bone China was manufactured by potters who wanted to find a substitute for porcelain that came from China. It took several years to find a formula that produced thin, strong, translucent pots. It contained clay from the China clay quarries in Cornwall, calcined bone and flint (heated and ground to break them down into a fine powder). The bone gives off phosphorus which adds to the strength of the bone china. You end up with a material half way between pottery and glass. This fine white china was then beautifully decorated with hand painted flowers, fruit and landscapes.

I’m sure there is far more to say on this subject. But that’s enough for now.

Green man?

Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Ceramic, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Green man head, Life, Morning glory plants, Nature, Plant, PotteryLeave a comment

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My morning glory plants are doing well. Not flowering yet though. They are in lots of places, but I particularly like the ones in this ceramic head I made years ago. It’s survived for about twenty or thirty years as has the female one further on up the yard… I’m not sure what colours will be on the plant. Looking forward to it.

Memory

Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Decorated, Fun, Glazed, Jug, Memory, Pottery, Tortoiseshell catLeave a comment

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I just found this memory, I’d decorated this jug, I did it at a local pottery in 2017. Now if I could only find the other side with the cat looking outwards not with its back to us! I think I gave it as a Christmas present. That’s the trouble with random memories if they are not in context. I only know when this was because I painted 2017 on it. By the way it’s meant to be a tortoiseshell cat.

Pots

Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Caring, Ceramics, Coffee pot, Cornish pottery, Cups, Hubby, Humour, Love, Milk jug, pots, Pottery, Present, Sugar bowlLeave a comment

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I’ve bought you a present, said my hubby. I saw it and thought of you! How much did it cost? £5. OK, but we already have three teapots a coffee pot and a cafetiere….? But I wanted to buy you a present.

I got you a glass ornament too. A tree shaped thing with two colourful parrots on branches comes out of a bag. But the cats will break it! I found it a safe space.

I know I’ve got no taste, he said, but I wanted to show you I love you.

OK, thank you, I appreciate it. The coffee set will reside in the summerhouse. (With the spiders).

This was I

Posted on June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Books, Canal, Canvas, Cat, Drawing, I, Illustration, Me, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Pottery, Radiography, Spode6 Comments

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Where I live,

Who I am,

What I do,

How I think,

Where I work,

My companion,

What I trained as,

My books,

My life,

My I.

My me!

Backstamp

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back stamp, Cup, Humour, Life, Mug, Poem, Poetry, Pottery, Sink, Teapot, WritingLeave a comment

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If you turn over a cup,

a mug,

a teapot

a jug?

If you look under your plate.

you may find a mark

light or dark.

Pottery thrown

Or molded?

An indented word

or a print of a symbol

so whatever you think,

you can see

who made your sink

your teacup

on the table

underneath?

A label.

A backstamp

to tell you who

made it.

Mallaband-Brown

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