Pot Painting at the Ceramic Cafe

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We booked a session at the Ceramic Cafe to do some pot painting and a chance to engage our inner children!

There’s a variety of different items available to paint - for example: mugs, plates, bowls, figures and teapots among others. The cost depends on the item that you wish to paint. On each table is a plate painted with all of the colours of paint available, so you can see what the colours look like once your item has been glazed and fired.

John selected a bowl with butterflies on it, I selected a teapot and George selected a mug. While you are painting, you can have hot drinks and snacks brought to you from the cafe section by the staff there.

Each session lasts around 2 hours and you pay for your pots, and any drinks or snacks at the end of the session. You then have a wait of around a week to 10 days before you can collect your pot, once it’s been glazed and fired. Alternatively, you can pay extra to have them posted to you.

We had a lot of fun painting our pots and we’re looking forward to getting our pots, once they’ve been glazed and fired.

We’ll post pictures of our finished pots on our Facebook and Instagram pages once we get them.

Half-Term

It’s the last day of the half-term holiday and we had all sorts of plans for different trips this week. Unfortunately the weather had different plans for us. With Storm Dennis following closely on the heels of Storm Ciara, there are several areas of the country that have been flooded. Luckily for us, we were not affected by flooding, we just had the wind and rain to contend with.

It was strange seeing images of Ironbridge, where we were a few weeks ago, being flooded and seeing parts of the road we walked along now being part of the River Severn. We really feel for everyone, everywhere, affected by the flooding and hope that things get back to normal as quickly as possible.

We chose to stay close to home for this week as none of us particularly like cold, wet and windy weather! John also has concerns about his hearing aids becoming wet, and if George needs to use his chair, we’ve found that it doesn’t cope well with wet surfaces. With hindsight, I wish that we’d got a chair that is a bit more rugged and can cope with wet or uneven surfaces better than the one that we have.

Hopefully the weather will start to improve for us, so we can get out and about again very soon 🙂