Introductions & Newcomers

[QueenOfTartsUK]

Hi everyone and welcome to the team! This thread is for anyone who wants to introduce themselves properly or who want to just pop in and say a quick hello!

[QueenOfTartsUK]

Hello! The name's Carmen and I come from a sunny seaside town along the southern coast of England. I craft jewellery that mimics sweets, desserts and confectionery items using several forms of airy dry clay. I have a background in Graphic Design and I look forward to working with you all!

[QuernusCrafts]

Hello! I'm Kirsten and I'm based in Leeds (although I'm Scottish by birth). I was a lawyer for 15 years until 2009 when I left to start up Quernus Crafts. I work exclusively with polymer clay and sculpt all sorts of animals, both cute and realistic - one day I'd like to try my hand at other types of clay :) Thanks for inviting me to join this new group :)

[QueenOfTartsUK]

Welcome to the team Kirsten! Thank you for joining and accepting the invite!
I actually saw your feature on Folksy first and thought your little animal sculptures were amazing! I particularly love the mice you make!

[Former_Member]

Hi there,

I'm from London originally although I now live in Hertfordshire. I make lots of things with polymer clay and like to experiment with various surface applications.

Hope to get my shop filled up soon!

Vic

[NadegeHoneyDesign]

Hi there,
I am Nadege and I live in Buckinghamshire although I am originally from France. I work with polymer clay and create mainly jewellery,all one of a kind. I love colours and like to create striking and colourful pieces. I also teach jewellery making in polymer clay.
I look forward to discovering what everyone else is doing.
Nadege

[GiraffesKiss]

Hello and Thank you for the invitation!!
I am in sunny (well, usually) Torbay in Devon and I make miniature food jewellery using polymer clay.
I love creating tiny interpretations of food to wear and I'm always looking at new ideas for my creations. x

[QueenOfTartsUK]

Hello Victoria, Nadege and GiraffesKiss and a very warm welcome to you all! Thank you for joining the team and taking the time to introduce yourselves.

I'm looking forward to working with you all. I hope you had a wonderful New Years and sell lots in the coming months!

[celadonpool]

Hello I'm Susan and thank you for inviting me.

I live near Manchester in the North West of England I make buttons and some jewellery in porcelain using mainly traditional oriental glazes. I fire in a gas kiln for reduction firing.

[BlackEarthBeads]

Hi I'm Caro, in soggy Derbyshire

I make buttons and small things in stoneware and terracotta. I'm using an electric kiln right now, but once the land dries out I'm going to be building myself a woodfired brick kiln (about which I shall probably talk far too much!)

[QueenOfTartsUK]

Hey there Susan and Caro thanks for joining us! I've never used porcelain or stoneware before, but both of your shops are amazing. Glad to have you guys on the team!

[fizzyclaret]

Hello everyone, I'm Fizzy and Thank you for inviting me to join the team. I love to work with polymer clay. I make a variety of dollhouse miniatures and jewellery items and hope to make sculptures and other crazy pieces of art in the future.

I'm from Warwickshire and work part time in a warehouse to substitute my passion for art but I'm hoping to be able to sculpt full time one day and work for myself. Looking forward to hearing more from everyone soon :)

[MyMandarinDucky]

Hello there :) My name is Aniko [Mandarin Duck] and I am a jewelry designer for 3 years now :) Usually I am working with polymer clay, semi precious stones and metals ( or combining them all together!) ... but sometimes I do experement a lot with different materials because I don't like any limitations to a style, niche or something like that :)
Nice to meet you all! :) have a nice day! :

xxx
Aniko

[Former_Member]

Hello, just saying a quick hi for now! can't wait to check out all of your creations I'm Miquiette I am 30 from Scotland and I make some cute pot heads from Fimo clay, will be back to speak soon (got a wee baby)

[Former_Member]

Hi, my name is Jane and I live in North Devon. I have been making jewellery from Polymer clay for a few years, both pendants and beaded jewellery. I want to expand on that this year and look at making small works of art using small polymer clay tiles.

Thanks for the invite to join the team and I look forward to getting to know you all this year!

[Former_Member]

Hello,
I'm Katie in St Albans
Thanks for inviting me to join the group; I am newish to etsy, and to ceramics too!
I have just set up a home studio making ceramic jewellery, I am also an architect working in london.
I have a little electric kiln in the spare bedroom and like to experiment with oxides and broken glass.

[QueenOfTartsUK]

Hi Fizzy, Aniko, Miquette, Jane and Katie! Thanks for joining and I warmly welcome you to the team! It's nice to see so many new faces and you all have wonderful shops by the way - very different from what I do too. It's great to have so much diversity in the team.

[Former_Member]

Hi everyone. I'm Cathy from South Wales. I have the shop Ty Siriol Ceramics & Crafts along with my parents, Chris and Chris. The shop is named after my parents farm and Ty Siriol is Welsh for Cheerful House. My mum and I produce ceramics but also crocheted and knitted items. My father helps me to run the shop, although it is usually me at the end of the computer. I look forward to getting to know you all. :-)

[LoveandLovelier]

Hi I'm Quil.

Thanks for the invitation - it's quite exciting to be part of this team. I use ceramic clay and I make gifts and home decorations. At the moment I make a lot of lovespoons and ceramic postcards. I am originally from Watford in hertfordshire, but I live in South Wales now. I have a studio in my converted garage with my kiln in it (which has been called Lucy the Kiln by my 5yr old!)

[PennySpoonerCeramics]

Hello and thanks for the invitation to join your team. My name is Penny & I live and work in Hampshire. I started making ceramics about 6 or 7 years back at an evening class and fell in love with the wheel instantly. I just love to make things that I would like to have myself and really enjoy working with the white clays - stoneware, porcelain & paper porcelain.

I have a small studio 5 mins walk from home which I probably spend too much time at....

[EsmeOnPlumIsland]

hello thank you for the invite :-)
I make stoneware and earthenware bits and bobs, anything that takes my fancy really :-D
I work from the spare room and we have a large kiln in the joinery workshop which I get to use on weekends when hubby is not working!
I also love lino printing and vintage.
Nice to meet everyone

[CatsCeramics]

Hello everyone! What a great team we have!

I work predominately in stoneware ceramic creating homewares, decorations and garden accessories. I haven't been on Etsy long and I haven't been in this business long either. Last year was my first year trading and I am so excited to be working with clay full time.
Thanks for inviting me to join this team. I am honoured to be amongst so many great uk clay workers.

[VanillaKiln]

Hello, I'm Jude.

Most of my experience is in figurative ceramic sculpture, life size portraits, etc, but recently I have concentrated on making glazed ceramics, decorative items and jewellery in porcelain paper clay. I have also dabbled in silver and bronze PCM. I have an Etruscan electric kiln and a small electric jewellery kiln. I work at home and live in North Wales.

I look forward to making connections in this team!

[QueenOfTartsUK]

Hello Cathay, Quil, Penny, Esme, Cat and Jude - a warm welcome to you all! Thank you for joining us. You all have amazing shops and it's nice to see such a range in products too! Hopefully we can all work together to get this team going!

[SupremilyJewellery]

Hi all! Thanks for the invite to the team!
My name is Emily, I have been self employed for 21 months now! I make intricate millefiori polymer clay jewellery. On etsy i sell dread beads and earrings but you can also view other creations on my website,
www.supremilyjewellery.com

I look forward to getting to know a few of you and hope that you like my work!

Please do favourite shop/items and i'll do the same for you!

Em xx