BodyMind Creative Studio

06/11/2025

Front and back (to show the title) of the first try at making a pillow out of clay. It looks cool, but I am going to try again to see if I can refine it a bit. It seems quite timely to have this come out of the kiln right when I am struggling to get an appointment for my treatment that I fly up to Auckland every three months to get. I was told that the clinic was full for the month, eventhough I am due for the treatment on the 20th. Now I will have to wait until sometime in December, meaning quite a few weeks overdue. Not looking forward to having to live with more pain and meds. Plus the December clinic isn’t a sure thing so it could be I have to wait until January! Not going to be a good Christmas if that happens. This is what happens when there is only one doctor in the whole country with limited public health spots for treatment🙄Even if I went private I would have limited access to this particular treatment and then I would be paying for flights to Auckland and the private charge every three months. 😞

06/11/2025

Ceramicus is on now for the next two weeks with Matkets both weekends. Come have a look at the amazing talented potters we have in Wellington. My puffer fish were accepted😊 Bit sad they were separated when displayed, but glad to have stepped out of my comfort zone and entered.

31/10/2025

I learn so much with each time I create and glaze pieces. Not happy with my colour choices and that lilac purple underglaze is giving me all kinds of trouble. The white underglaze is also causing some creeping again. Might need to get new white. Not sure if one of these will be the medium fish to get submitted with the large and small ones for Ceramicus, or if I will go back to submitting the one done with purple brush on glaze. Very happy with how my BodyMind tokens turned out though. I have a few more that have holes so they can hang. These ones will get a pin on the back. Will definitely make some more of these to sell at a potential exhibition next year.

26/10/2025

Finished all the different shades of granny squares and am now assembling my blanket. Hopefully I will be able to display this along with my pottery pillow in an exhibition next year. Each granny square represents amount of hindering the level of pain had on me in each day of the year for one whole year. Inspired by someone recently asking me how I was, and when I was honest and said it was not a good migraine day, they said, “ Why don’t you just go home and lie down in a dark room?” Turns out, if I did that every time I felt the way I did on that day I would have been in a dark room for 151 days of that year. Then there are another 152 days where I was still not pain free and functioning at various levels of ok. Only 62 days were actually days where I could say I was feeling like a person without a chronic condition.

25/10/2025

Little blue penguin like all my pottery ones this one is a little sad.

21/10/2025

12/10/2025

Second creative workshop for the day was one with Always good to see more techniques and ways of finding a new edge to work with in pottery. Didn’t make anything I will keep, just playing with clay and technique in a new way. Very relaxing😊

11/10/2025

Spent a couple of hours sitting with some wonderful people at a knit and crochet event for Looking forward to taking part again in the future.

02/10/2025

Looking forward to a group exhibition this December. Working hard to get more things made. Part of my earnings will be donated to Forrest and Bird conservation projects.

01/10/2025

Looking forward to being part of this amazing group of artists celebrating animals in a group show in December. Hope you come visit.

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28/09/2025

Created a soft version of my ceramic pufferfish.

23/09/2025

Phoenix done. This was a try at a new one for an old artwork, but I think it will just serve as a mascot since it didn’t work out as envisioned and I decided a body made out of clay would likely work better.