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Glenfiddich To The Rescue |
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| 28 June 2013 Maggie was having trouble getting her extra large Cathedral Daisy Pots to stand up, then worked out that a Glenfiddich tin was just the shape to hold the piece upright whilst she assembled the panels. Good job her husband is partial to a drop of the strong stuff. |
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Wild Dotty Cat Spotted at Utterby |
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| 13 June 2013 Maggie and Tracy have been setting out their sculptures at the Utterby Garden & Sculpture Trail today. Several beautiful gardens on Church Lane are hosting this event to raise funds for the church of St Andrew's. Tracy's wild ocelot cat and robin can be found in the Manor House garden. The show runs from the 15th until the 23rd June with a private view tomorrow evening. |
Is there a God? |
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| 12 June 2013 As potters working with dangerous chemicals and firing them to ridiculously high temperatures, it is a superstitious necessity to put a protective God on top of the kiln that is being used. These vultures survived a firing and are now going to the Utterby Garden and Sculpture show. Do other folk have little protective spirits or Gods to safeguard their work whilst it is being created, or is it just a crazy thing that some potters do? |
Race For Life
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9 June 2013 Tracy from Zoo Ceramics joined several members of the pottery class to run the Race For Life at the Lincolnshire show ground. Student Preeti ran for her lovely friend also called Preeti and Tracy ran for her pottery friend Louise of Salsbury Ceramics who last month raised an amazing £1395 for cancer Research with the sale of donated plates at the Ceramics in Charnwood Pottery show. Today the ladies jointly added over another £750 more to the fund.
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Utterby Garden and Sculpture Trail |
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| 4 June 2013 This year the SAP Sculpture and Plant exhibition formerly shown at Hall Farm in Harpswell has now moved to the picturesque Lincolnshire village of Utterby to raise funds for the local parish church of St Andrew's. The event will be taking place in the gardens of Moat Farm, The Paddock, and The Manor House on Church Lane. The exhibition will run from 15 June to 23 June from 11am – 4pm. |
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What do you call a group of Dodos? |
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| 30 May 2013 A Murder of Crows, a Charm of Finches, and a Parliament of Owls, but what would you call a group of Dodos? This little post sparked of a wonderful debate on the possible term for a collection of dodos. People came up with some excellent ideas from David's 'an absense' to Jean's 'a miracle'. I particularly like Barbara's 'Tynwald of Dodos', taken from the oldest continuous parliament in the World and Angela's 'extinction' and 'dearth'. I personally would call them a 'destinction of dodos'. If you have any ideas, click on the facebook link and come like our page and join in. |
Beak Heads Let Loose at Lincoln Artists' Market |
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| 29 May 2013 Maggie's new Gargoyle Magnets and little plaques, inspired by the stone carved beak-head motifs on the Lincoln Cathedral doorways, are embarking on their first outing this Saturday at the Lincoln Artist's Market. (Please note the gargoyles in the image are not shown actual size, as this would make them over 50 foot high……… now there is an idea!) |
Bunnies at Blickling |
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| 24 May 2013 Zoo Ceramics are off to Blickling Hall in Norwich this bank holiday weekend for our craft show with the Eastern Events Ltd Team. The Hares are coming too, along with some Dodos. Maggie will be doing a Tile Workshop and Tracy will be working on some Alice in Wonderland designs. |
How to make an Exploding Dodo |
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23 May 2013 |
Oh No…No Cake…Catatastrope! |
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18 May 2013 Unfortunately Zoo Ceramics have had to pull out of the Ceramics in Charnwood pottery show tomorrow, due to illness. We shall be selling our Dodo and Fish Cake Plates for charity at our Blicking Hall Craft Show next weekend. We hope all the potters have a wonderful day and everyone supports Lousie Salsbury's Cake on a Plate scheme to raise funds for the fight against cancer. |
Delicious Dodo Dish |
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12 May 2013 Here is Tracy's offering for the Ceramics in Charnwood Pottery Show. Many potters attending this event in Loughborough next Sunday have donated a plate that will be sold with a cake for £10 each and all the funds raised go towards the fight against cancer. |
Zoo Ceramics 25 Years From Dodos To Daisies |
12 May 2013 Maggie and Tracy are designing some fliers for their 25 years exhibition at the Sam Scorer Gallery in October. The event will be titled “From dodos To Daisies” and will feature lots of new creations and some old favourites. |
Flower Power! |
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8 May 2013 Emmeline “Rose” Betley is featured with her mum's “Hare with Daisies” and snapped by photographer Simon Deacon for the Burton Mail. Emmeline helped with the tile workshop at our craft show at Calke Abbey this weekend and had her face painted by the talented Stephanie Farwell. |
Why are the Dodos Dancing Beak to Beak? |
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| 25th April 2013 With such little legs and rather large bodies, this is the only way Tracy can store the birds to let them dry before carving the details. Otherwise they tend to fall on their heads and end up with squashed beaks; not a good look. |
Cold Chicken |
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| 2nd March 2013 With The first Lincoln Artists' Market on Castle Hill in Lincoln was rather chilly, so Tracy sat cuddled up to her chicken and cockerel for warmth. Our stand was sandwiched between Natalie from Upsydaisy Craft with her lovely new birds in boxes and Wayne Lockwood's fantastic animal lino prints. It's always nice to have such warm and friendly neighbours on such a cold, but fortunately sunny start to our craft show season. We shall be back in Lincoln again on 6th March. |
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