30/10/2025
Its been a hard one to admit this...but its goodbye for now, not forever.
I'll be back, but I'm stepping back from making for a while, I don't know how long for, but I hope life brings me back to clay in the future, I'm sure it will... I am enjoying being newly married and adventuring in life at a slower pace.
I've popped some highlights in here in photos, but to include some realities too: I've spent hours, days and weeks sometimes sobbing into the clay when things just will not go right. The price of my materials since 2019 has increased by 450% overall in cost alone, without firing, and my time factored in, its just not sustainable right now. I've met the most incredible people through my business and via the socials I have for it. I miss the connections with other makers but My life has changed this past year a lot, I'm working more to build the life me and my husband want to have.
It's been a hard year for many reasons including loosing much loved close family to cancer, tearing my ACL in two places, which has taken a long time to repair and been very painful, among other life changes with illness, my health and my life overall and the end of my 20's, its been a time of reflection of the '20 year old me thought I'd be.....'vs where I am today.
I do want to come back to ceramics and find myself just as in love with clay as I have been for over a decade, for now though I'm hanging up my apron, tidying my tools away, and storing Nora my kiln under my workbench for the forseeable, remembering to switch off the studio lights as I head out the garage, knowing I'll return one day in the future.
I really appreciate every comment, like, share, interaction, purchase and recommendation anyone has ever given me and my creative business, because without you all I wouldn't of existed!
Here's to hoping my clay built road leads me back home to the studio one day.
