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Year going so fast

19 Oct 2014 17:41:52

 
 
 
Popped down to the fab Entertaining Elephants today  to re stock, beautiful stuff, got myself a treat too, easily done with the range Jo offers.

 
 
It's been a bizarre weather week too, one minute beautiful sunshine and quick as a flash massive down pours, I would n't mind too much but still trying to replant and move plants in the garden. At least it was dry when a ton of clay from St Agnes arrived, beautiful soft white stoneware!

 
 
And a few quick photo's of products before sending down to the editor of 'Delicious' magazine, wow, now in this magazines Christmas Gift Guide section, what the?
 
 
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Which is lovely after a long but great day on Sunday at Marcus Beans Shropshire Bake Off.
 
 
Don't think you could of asked for better weather and it got hot! 
 
Best burgers ever for lunch, what else did we expect?!
 
 
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Delivering to Tom Kerridge

19 Oct 2014 17:34:08

 
 
We meet Tom and had a quick chat before going in for dinner which was amazing and we got birthday messages on our puds!

 
After dinner we got to see the kitchen and meet this guy Nick who is the head chef and talked bowls and boards with him, nice guy.

 
Had our first lie in for months, still up at half eight but that felt like ages! And had my first day off for ages, actually did no work which hasn't happened for months, spent the day at The Cotswold Wildlife Centre which was fab, beautiful grounds and loads of animals.

 
 

 
They have this amazing giraffe house which you walk above the height of the giraffes so you get really close, close enough to touch if you were allowed!

 
And then home, straight back to work, set up the stand so could pack what is needed for The Bake Off at Brompton Cookery School, outside Shrewsbury with Marcus Bean.. 

 

 
Off for a lie down! Stroll on tomorrow!
 
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New oak tree to play with

19 Oct 2014 17:30:23

 
 
 
A massive oak tree that came down in the winter storms. It's a beautiful piece of timber, really straight.
 
 
The dogs took the chance to have a dip whilst we were there
 
More of the length and branches, this tree will get planked and left to season before we can make it into products.
 
 
And home in a the last of the sunshine.

 
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New piccy's from Craig

4 Oct 2014 18:05:46

 
 
I'll be adding the Condiment Set above as time allows, seem to have full days and nights right now.
 
Below are the breakfast/soup bowls in the 'soft blue' and 'cornish ware' glazes. I particularly like these bowls. I like throwing them and eating from them, the depth is bang on for me but I know everyone has their own idea.
 

 

 

 I'm finalising in my mind how supplying chef's and catering businesses could work.

If you look back through previous posts you'll see I make bowls in all sorts of sizes, dipping bowls, tapas, breakfast, vegetable serving and large salad/fruit bowl.

I'm going to measure the sizes again and offer businesses the opportunity to select the sizes they want in the clay and glaze finishes they prefer, this is exactly how Tom Kerridge orders and it makes sense.

They can then choose the clay body, buff, white or black and the internal glaze finish, soft white, shiny white, clear, blue, gloss brown etc. There's also the possibility to make specific shapes etc.

It's an idea that's brewing but when I meet my next Chef I'm going to talk it through more, but it's all possible,  I will have to have a minimum order number of bowls in any given clay, ten say, as the wheel will need cleaning each time I change clay but it gives everybody loads of options.

There's also the idea of small tokens when the meal is finished, like the smallest version of these Christmas hearts. There was a restaurant near us that used to give the ladies little presents at certain times of the year, Xmas, Mother's Day, Valentines etc and it was a great personal touch. I could make the small tokens for the same idea.

 
Any other ideas anyone?
 
 My Jon's been using one of the ammonite tokens as a key ring, maybe that could be a Father's Day present?
 
I've got the first half of Tom's order done and the second half is biscuit firing tonight but I'll either post that or take it down in a few weeks.
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back to the old one

22 Sep 2014 08:08:51

Ok so follow this link to go back and read through our blog from the start if you'd like to: sytchfarmstudios.blogspot.co.uk 

WE wanted to bring the blog together with our new website so we have been pain-stakingly copying over some old posts to start poulating the new blog, but enough is enough, we'd rather be writing new ones so please click the link if you'd like to know more.

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