Ceramic Tea Colanders, Simple Beauty…and Floods!

cocnutbread5

coconutbread2

all images ©Marley & Lockyer

It has been crazy here…work wise and weather wise and when it is like this, on the weekends I bake. This past weekend it was a Coconut & Banana Bread. I haven’t done a full on bake up for a while, so I baked big. We had family for dinner and Mics Brother for Lunch…lots of cooking…and it was such a nice change of pace.

weekend99

The weather has been terrible lately and the mornings have been dim…the kind of weather that makes you wonder why you can’t lounge about all day. I did for a little while, but I can’t sit still for long!

teacolander

There was some testing to be done of these little tea strainers I made…I done it with coffee. Really, I would like to have done it with filter paper like the slow drip coffee systems, but plunger coffee made do while I worked away in the studio…

studio2

studio4

…wrapping orders and trying to find the beauty in such a dismal day. I enjoy candles when it’s like this so much more than usual.

photo (25)

I also had to contend with our yard flooding. Picture me in my wellies, in torrential rain with a matic, digging 4 trenches to let the water escape!

…I will leave you with that. They worked anyway 😉

Ness xx

Comments

comments

Comments (6)

  • Hi Ness,

    The Banana and Coconut bread looks delicious – will you be posting a recipe? I her you with the frantic digging of trenches to let water escape – we do that up at our place in Qld when it rains to stop the run off from the neighbour’s yard into our pool!

    I love the wrapping on your orders – I can’t wait for my Argyle plate and key necklace to come in the mail. Can’t wait for some platters too. Can I preorder a Village series snow platter?

    Hope the sun comes out soon! xx

    Reply
    • I probably will Andrea…it’s a good one! It’s nice to know I’m not the only one out there digging 😉
      Thank you, I love wrapping them and your goodies should be going out tomorrow from memory. Unfortunately I am not doing pre orders on the platters…they are a thorn in my side and crack a lot in the kiln. So I will only list them when available…sorry.
      Ness xx

      Reply
      • I understand with the platters Ness. I love that it is an organic process with so much individual attention, effort and crossing of fingers. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for a platter sometime in the future and if a couple did come out of the kiln in one piece, I would love to be able to buy one..or two – whatever the design xx

        Reply
        • When I have them made, I will list them, but they don’t come up very often so keep your eyes out 🙂
          Ness xx

          Reply
  • Love your art, will be looking into an order.
    The banana bread sounds fabulous, we love coconut over here.

    Thank you for the beautiful share.
    Xx
    Doré

    Reply
    • thank you!
      I will post the recipe soon xx

      Reply

Leave a Reply to Doré BurlapLuxe Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Verified by ExactMetrics