Work in progress and recent pieces from my instagram feed.

I’m such a happy potter - decorating in the sunshine. And the sun and breeze are also drying the pots out beautifully in my new found drying spot on top of the chicken run (where neither chickens nor children can bash them).
A very exciting breakfast in our house today. The kids ate toast from the toast racks they made themselves! They made them by cutting round the same little templates which I used to make my toast racks. Their versions come out much quirkier and mor
A couple of weeks ago, the very lovely @rachaelsmithdonnelly came and spent a day taking lots of pictures of me and my studio. I really like this one which she took through the window. I’m not the easiest subject to photograph as I always fe
Spring is on its way! Inside and outside the pottery there are signs of life… The most exciting news our house is that our much loved little chickens who we hatched from eggs last Easter have started laying eggs! Some of them very tiny&hellip
I’ve been playing! I’m really pleased to have set aside a bit of time at the start of this year for mucking about! Instead of getting straight down to restocking mugs and working on orders of my usual collections, I’ve been doing
A sea of new little soap dishes… I’m about to load these into the kiln for their first firing. All being well, they will soon be on their way to @asapoth on the beautiful Isle of Harris. #ceramicsoapdish #asapothecary #botanticalpot
hello! Long time no see. Hope you’ve also survived January… I’m still here, doing my little thing in this crazy world. I’ve got my kiln on for the first time this year (actually full of things I made at the end of last yea
Happy new year! Wishing you a wonderful 2026. I also want to thank you so much for your support in 2025. My year in the studio has begun with a mountain of pugging. I had great intentions to tackle my clay recycling heap at the end of last year&h
Thank you so so much to everyone who supported my winter shop update. I’m so grateful. It’s now all done! The parcels are all on their way and my online shop is shut until next year. Thanks to your generosity, I was able to donate &poun
Thank you again so much to everybody who ordered items from my winter online shop. I’ve just unloaded my last kilnful of the pre-ordered pieces and will be packing them up today and tomorrow so they should be arriving very soon! Just in case
Lots of little birds huddling together. Toast racks that were pre-ordered in my online shop coming soon… . . . #handmadetoastrack #toastracksofinstagram ##buyhandmadethischristmas
In the spring, we hatched some bantam chicks in an incubator and they now live in a run at the end of our garden next to my studio. It was my son who was desperate to have them, but I now find myself surprised by how ridiculously attached to them I
Lovely to have my geese toast rack featured in @thetimes in an article about the merits of buying handmade presents this Christmas. I totally support the sentiment! The Interiors Editor @katrina_burroughs selected 23 homeware gifts, including bea
Hooray! My shop update is now live! Please pop in and have a look around. I’m donating 20% of sales to @refugeesanctuaryscotland for their vital work tackling refugee destitution in Scotland. With apologies to my wonderful international cus
My winter shop will be going live tomorrow (Sunday 9th Nov). There will be a collection of toast racks alongside lots of other pots. I’m donating 20% of sales to @refugeesanctuaryscotland for their vital work tackling refugee destitution in S
•Online shop opening- Sun 9th 2pm• I’m working on photos and website fiddly things, and all being well… My winter shop update will go live this Sunday at 2pm. I’ll have a range of pieces from tiny dishes up to big vas
Sorting and packing new pieces fresh from the kiln… Thankfully nothing scary! Happy halloween, happy Samhain! #handmadesoapdishes #seabuckthorndecoration #dandelionpottery #seabuckthornpottery #inspiredbynature #scottishpotters #asapothec
Such beautiful light through my (very dirty) studio windows… #potterystudio #autumnlight
Loading the kiln today… Looking forward to a toasty warm day in the studio tomorrow! . . . #scottishpotters #edinburghmakers #potterystudio #kilnloading