I got the idea for these a while back. The idea is to plant succulents in these so that they all look like they have crazy hair. Finished the first batch of clay that Mum brought for me from CT…now I am just looking for somewhere to fire them.

10 Feb 2015 - These guys have been lurking in the back of the storeroom for months; I didn’t want to make any new ones if I couldn’t get the first batch fired. Madeliese was my saviour there…she got the ceramics teacher at Carinus to fire them for me and apparently he said he doesn’t mind doing more :D So I have been making new ones during the load-shedding (another hobby that does not require electricity, woot!), and I am really enjoying it. I think I am getting better at doing it too. Now here’s hoping they don’t all explode in the kiln!

08 March 2015 - Got the first set back and realised how much my techniques have actually improved :) I need to get potting soil and plant some stuff in them so I can put them up in Red Cafe and see how they sell.

22 March 2015 - Plant-heads! :D

11 April 2015 - Ermagherd. I derped so hard. We had a really rainy easter weekend and it took me ages to realise that the top of the washing-machine cupboard had a big puddle on it and also a bunch of finished-but-unfired pots. Luckily only one or two of them had begun to disintegrate by the time I got inside with them, I am still pretty bummed at my extreme stupidity :(

03 December 2015 - Yeah, so winter was pretty horrible in many varied and sucky ways. Also it is way too cold to sit outside on the stoep making pots :/ But summer and the new serotonin levels in in my brain have both kicked in and I am loving making these little chaps again. Also a lady from the Journ department came and bought an entire firings-worth of them (damn, including my caterpillar which I have just realised I never took any pictures of so I will have to make another when I have the patience), so that also upped my spirits a lot because it is nice to know that someone genuinely does like them enough to pay for them. Maybe next winter I can find somewhere warm and inside to keep making them because it really does soothe my soul deep down.