Author: Christina Goodall
Floral scented handmade Soy Candles
New Product Alert! 🚨 ‘An English Garden’ 💐 Handmade Soy Candles At last, after many months of development. I have finally launched the most beautifully scented soy candles you are gonna have a whiff of this year. Inspired by ‘The English Garden’ theme for my pop-up event in Studio Nine on Totnes high-street. These vegan…
The 10 Best Summer Garden Gifts
The Summer is nearly here and it’s probably the Gardeners’ favourite time of the year. Well here are the 10 best Summer Garden gifts to give to garden enthusiast loved-ones in your life so they feel extra special this summer.
My 10 Favourite Cake Decorators on Instagram
Prepare yourself for all this delicious piping of colourful frosting. I love the look of piped cakes, reminiscent of motherly baking and celebration. Which inspires my ceramic work greatly (gallery below of some of my work) and I have been keen to learn the traditional piping skills of yesteryear. My learning to pipe has come…
55 Things I learnt in the first year of my small Creative business
Here are 55 things I experienced during the first year of my creative business. Some I’m still regularly feeling.
NEW: Margo Margo Ceramic Jewellery
So I might be a bit crazy. I’ve just gone and started my own Porcelain jewellery collection called Margo Margo Jewellery. How they are made The project started in 2020, the year of isolation, when I realised I needed to try and work from home as much as possible instead of my pottery studio. I…
12 IKEA Products for Pottery
Here are 12 of my favourite Ikea products that I use in my pottery studio. If you are an amateur home ceramicist or a fully fledged studio potter, these Ikea products are going to come in handy to ease your pottery making. Here I share my favourite Ikea hacks from storage ideas to tools for…
Making Ceramic Gingerbread Ornaments
Christmas is still more than 3 months away and yet I have been making ornaments for the holiday all of this month; here is a little video of me making ceramic gingerbread people ornaments from start to finish. These guys will be a special release on my website shop for Christmas 2020 in the coming…
13 Common Potter Mistakes
If you know, you know. That is if you are a potter, you understand my woes. This is 13 Common Potter Mistakes that we have all at some point made in our making process. Clay is a delicate fellow who definitely lets you know when it’s not happy. 1. Wedging air into the clay so…
My 6 Go-to Pottery Throwing Tools
Here are 6 tools I can’t go without when sitting down to throw (as well as my pottery wheel of course!) I’ll let you in on my tried and true favourites. All of these products are available online if you think they might help you throwing those clay shapes. 1. Ribs – These ones aren’t…
‘Maker’s Block’ Remedies
You’ve probably heard of ‘writer’s block’ but believe me when I say there is also such a thing as ‘maker’s block’. If you’re a crafter or an artist, you have probably already experienced it. When you sit down to make something and feel completely uninspired or your mind feels blocked of creativity and new ideas.…