Bookings are now open for our baby baubles printing event 🥳
Join us on Monday 1st December when Hazel will capture your baby’s precious prints onto baubles
✱ Please note - this session is a quick drop-in style session, where we’ll get you all settled, capture babies prints on your pre-selected pieces of pottery - taking around 30mins in total.
After the session Hazel will add babies name / ‘First Christmas’ details, and we’ll have your pieces ready to collect before Christmas, just in time for gifting / handing on the tree.
How it works:
- A 30 min slot allows one baby to print up to 4 baubles, or two babies to print two baubles each.
- We’ll ask in the booking form for loads of details including how many of each piece you’d like to paint - this will allow us to plan your session accordingly. Once we’ve confirmed your booking we will send you an invoice for the full balance, which is to be paid ahead of your session.
- When you arrive Hazel will spend little while getting to know you all, and making sure babies comfortable with their new surroundings. Once they’re settled we can decide if a hand or foot print will be better. Hand prints can be tricky with new babies, and wriggly ones! Whereas feet are a bit easier as they (generally) have a bit less control of them…
- The printing process is very quick, we’ll paint their hand / foot, press it gently on the piece(s) of pottery, and voila! All accessorising and writing will be done at a later date by our pro-handwriter. Once the prints are complete you can use a damp cloth to remove any remaining paint. All paint is water based and non-toxic but if you choose a dark colour it may stain light coloured fabric.
✱ Please also note, dark colours, such as a very festive emerald greens are what we call ‘one chancers’ - meaning once they are on the pottery, we can;t wipe them off and try again - where as medium tones we can have up to 3 attempts with.
Your session will last around 20-30 mins depending on how long baby takes to settle / how many piece you’ve chosen to print on.
Pottery options for painty prints:
Prices include Hazel adding a name and short message to your piece, as well as tiny hearts / dots if desired.
We’ve chosen a small selection of our favourite items, perfect as a gift or a treat for you to keep.
Providing babe is happy you can add up to 2 prints per item, and request a name and a short message to be written on the piece by our pro-handwriter after your session (it’s pretty tricky doing neat writing with an audience so we always choose to add it at a later date for best results). You can choose dots, or tiny hearts to be added around your prints and writing - we can’t take special requests. We’ll have examples to hand so you can choose which you’d prefer on the day.
Choose your print colour:
To make things easier for your baby, it can be best to choose only one colour to print with.
The mid tones have the best effect - dark enough so you can see all the details, but not so dark it’s a ‘one chancer’
And finally some examples:
Book your space ⤵️
Glazing and firing your pottery:
We try our best to ensure that every aspect of the creative journey you take with us is fun and enjoyable. The final part of this journey involves the glazing and firing of your pottery up to temperatures in excess of 1000˚C. This process is carried out onsite by our studio assistants who treat each piece with the greatest love, care and attention.
We strive for perfection with every piece, however the kiln gods are not always on our side.
Painted ready made pieces: Occasionally glaze spotting can occur, as well as surface imperfections such as tiny bumps caused by brick dust flying around the kiln as it heats up, this dust can settle on items as the kiln temperature cools. If we feel it is safe to do so, we will try to fix glazing issues by re-firing the pottery.
Pottery can also crack in the kiln too. This is super rare, but if it does happen we’ll give you a voucher to paint again.
We hope you understand that we do everything we can to try and prevent such things, however it is not always possible. The unpredictable element can be both the charm and frustration of ceramics.