Congratulations to our Competition Winner and Goodbye...for now!

Firstly, the good news. Time to announce the winner of our prize draw for customers who came in over the summer to win a free session to paint the giant cupcake cookie jar!

Yesterday morning names went into a hat (well, a mug...)


And the winning number picked out by our very helpful assistant was number 10:

Which corresponded to Evie Boxall! Evie, you have won the free session - we have sent you an email with all the details.

Now for the bad news... sadly we will be shutting the shop in mid-September when our lease expires. We are so very sad to be doing this and are really, really going to miss all our lovely customers. I can't thank everyone enough for being so supportive and friendly - we have enjoyed meeting each and every one of you.

We are going to keep our eyes peeled for a fab new location for next summer, but in the meantime we will be keeping the majority of our equipment and have a kiln at home, so will be doing mobile events and are absolutely available for hire for sessions at pre-schools, schools, guides/brownies, birthday/hen parties etc. Just get in touch if you would like to discuss a booking on 0776 474 4569 or info@seashoreceramics.co.uk.

We're also hoping to run sessions at local village halls during the school holidays - keep an eye on our Facebook page or website for more information!

After this weekend we will be open on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, and then definitely on the following two Saturdays before we close the shop at Station Road for good. However please do get in contact if there are any days you would like to come in and do a session as we will be in and out of the shop a lot over the next few weeks.

Hope to see you all before too long!

Esther, Kevin and Arwen xxx

Spring/Summer 2012 News

Well, it's been a while since I've updated this, but there are a few things I wanted to mention, so here we go!

Shaldon Jubilee Market: Tuesday 5th June 10am - 2pm
We're really looking forward to having our stall at the Shaldon Jubliee Market on the upcoming Jubilee Bank Holiday. We won't be doing any pottery painting there, but we will be selling all sorts of ceramic goodies that we've been working on over the winter, including...beach hut magnets and hangers, coasters, celebratory union jack mugs, fish paintings, handmade greetings cards and much more!

New Stock 
We've recently had a big delivery and so lots of our old favourites are back in stock...owls, unicorns just to name a few, and we have some lovely new pieces to add to our shelves! Here are just a few:

(L-R: Cute bird, Cyclops monster, Frog, Large fairy, Cute T-Rex, Elephant piggybank)

We are hiring!
As most of you will already know, we had a little addition to our family last year in the form of baby Arwen. This means that we are going to be looking to hire some help in the shop over the 6 week summer holidays. Ideally we're looking to build a small list of local people who can be flexible and are interested in casual, ad hoc work, due to the unpredictable nature of the busy times in our shop. For example, if there is a heatwave, we may not need any help, but if the weather turns rainy, we may well need an extra pair of hands!

If you, or someone you know is interested, please do get in contact us on info@seashoreceramics.co.uk or 0776 474 4569. You'll need to enjoy working with children of all ages and their parents, not be afraid of a bit of painty mess, and ideally have an interest in art or craft (but you certainly don't need to be an artist yourself!)

Shaldon Christmas Market

We're very excited to be having a stall at the first ever Shaldon Christmas Market on the evening of the 8th December. We'll be selling a range of our own artwork and christmas decorations, gift vouchers, plus the opportunity to do baby hand/footprints on decorations, hangers and mugs.

So, if you're looking for a unique Christmas present for those tricky-to-buy-for relatives or friends, pop along and see us!

Autumn Sale!

Yes, it's time for our very first out-of-season sale here at Seashore Ceramics.

Starting from Saturday 15th October, to help make space for our Christmas stock lots of fab items will be discounted, including:

• Cat animugs
• Train banks
• Winnie the Pooh banks
• Photo frames
• Cup & Saucer sets
• Football banks
• Flower mugs

That's only a small selection, so why not pop in to see if anything you've had your eye on painting is now in the sale? Hope to see you soon!

A little breather!

Apologies for the radio silence everyone - yes, we are still alive :)

We had a lovely summer season, with loads of fantastic visitors and some fabulous works of art going into the kiln. We're very excited that some of our summer visitors have even planned their October half-term visits already! We were also really thrilled at the local support we had throughout the summer - everyone has been so friendly and really made us feel at home in Teignmouth.

Now that the school term has started, we're taking the opportunity to have a little breather and sort our house out ready for the arrival of the newest member of our family, due in November - not long to go now, I'm sure anyone who has been into the shop recently will agree that I look fit to pop already!

We will still be open every weekend (with the exception of this coming Sunday 25th September), and most Thursdays and Fridays, plus any other agreed times for group and birthday bookings. If you'd like to check if we'll be open, please do get in touch - our contact details can be found on this page or at www.seashoreceramics.co.uk


If you'd like to book a party, don't forget we can also do an after-school slot, any time around 4-6 - just get in contact if you'd like to discuss options. There's still plenty of availability, but we are getting more bookings so do give us a shout if you're thinking of having a party with us.

Lastly, we're looking forward to Christmas and have already got some of our festive stock ready - but you'll just have to wait a little longer for that, the sun is still shining a little to much to bring it out... But it won't be long before we all start thinking about making Christmas presents for loved ones and creating some fun new decorations!

Our first mobile event

We've just come back from doing our first event as a mobile service - we had a stall at Shaldon Primary School's Summer Fete. And what fun we had! We learnt lots of new things, how to put a gazebo up being one, thanks to the good ol' British summer weather... But fortunately, it only extended to the occasional bit of drizzle, so everyone was able to continue outside.


We were thrilled to see some of our regulars, plus some of the Brownies we met last week, along with making some new friends - and we hope to see you all again soon in the shop to pick up your finished pottery! All the items should be ready for collection by Wednesday.

The new school wing - which was also officially opened today - looks fabulous, and we're hoping plenty more funds were raised with the fete - the raffle was certainly popular!

If anyone would like to book us for a similar event, just get in touch - we'll be at Chudleigh Primary School Fete next Friday (15th July) and others coming up over the summer, and we love getting out into the open air and meeting lots of new faces.

Time for a cold drink and a lie-down now...

We're back

Hello everyone

We had a lovely few days break in sunny North Devon - hopefully the weather was so good that we didn't miss out on too many customers, but our apologies if you popped by the shop to find it closed! Our two pups particularly enjoyed themselves...

Since we returned we're really excited to have had a few more group visits.

Firstly, 4th Teignmouth Brownies visited for an animal-painting session as a special summer treat. The girls came up with lots of interesting questions and really got stuck in - some fantastic creatures were painted (Crazy Rainbow Snail among many more!). Any Rainbows/Brownies/Guides packs booking a group session get a special discount at Seashore Ceramics, so if there are any interested pack leaders out there, do just get in contact.


We then hosted our first Baby Shower this weekend which, being parents-to-be ourselves, was particularly exciting! After an early morning baking, icing cakes and creating home-made bunting, we were ready for our guests:


The fab idea of chief organiser Hannah was to paint an alphabet of ceramic letters for the baby's nursery, so we ordered these in - I'm really pleased we did as I can imagine many more fun uses for the remaining letters in future.

Some beautiful letters were painted by the group, all in colours to co-ordinate with the nursery, and we can't wait to see how they look all fired up and framed together! Thanks to all the ladies who came and to Hannah for organising it - hopefully it will be our first of many :)


We're back to our normal opening hours now, so we'll be open every day apart from Tuesdays for the future. Roll on summer holidays!