The Busy Finch

Off to the Otautahi Made Market tomorrow at Te Pae in Christchurch!
Trying something new by creating some creative goodie boxes for all you lovely people who like to get hands on with crafty goodness.
There will be Pottery, Papercraft and Watercolour 'Try Me' kits and some really delicious gift boxes filled with amazing creative supplies.
Come and see us!

Te Pae
ChCh Convention Centre
Armagh St/Oxford Tce Cnr
10-4pm Sunday 21st June.

Feels like I've been shifting studio forever!
So it's the little things that are feeding my soul at the moment.
Like these gorgeous wee bats made especially for me by the very clever They are absolutely adorable and will be worn pinned with much love near my heart. Thank you so much for them and their traveling buddy Li'l Chicken! X
Also, finally making sense enough at our new studio to revel the new .nz showroom and to enjoy my new teaching space for the NZDAD Diploma of Ceramics.
I feel like I'm slowly getting there...not to many tears... tea and cake...just a little! ;-)
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has helped get us there!!! # # #


75 Peterborough St Complex
Unit 3C, access of Peterborough Lane
Open 10-5pm Friday & Saturday

NZDAD
making muddy messes on Fridays

Bat Mates
Hanging out most days with their other little buddies

So long and thanks for all the fun!

Moving studio time again.

We've been 5 years at Essex St and we're now moving on to Peterborough St for new crafty, sticky, pottery, papery, printy adventures!

See you there!

Had a fantastic day with a birthday picnic at Camp Bay.
The sun was out, the sea was freezing, there were lot's of soggy clothes, purple limbs, laughs, good food and ice creams all round at the end of the day, perfect!
I hope you all are having a peaceful Easter holiday too!

All set up for a fab day with heaps of pottery goodness at St Faiths Church in New Brighton for the first Pottery Festival...huzzah!
So pleased to be with the wonderful as a guest exhibitor...settled in with lots of other clever clay workers.
Also, so amazing to be hosted in this beautiful heritage architectural space!
Please pop in and adopt a pot!

St Faiths Church
46 Hawke St
New Brighton
10-4pm Friday and Saturday

Preparing for the first Christchurch Pottery Festival organized by in New Brighton this coming Friday and Saturday!
Along with the wonderful , I am honoured to be a guest exhibitor.
So, I have been very busy making lots of goodies that remind me of all the crazy fun times I had at the beach.
A little Summer Time Fun!
Sparkly sprinkle ice-creams, sugary fruit jube necklaces, whale brooches, beach themed plates and platters...even the fabulous Whale Pool makes an appearance...who remembers that?!!!
I hope you can come along and support this amazing showcase of local pottery!
There will be so many beautiful things needing new homes!!!

10-4pm Friday & Saturday
St Faiths
46 Hawke St, New Brighton, Christchurch

My work at the opening of the 2026 last night looked magical in the golden last light!
What a wonderful event!
What a beautiful location dotted with fantastic sculptural art work.
The gardens are a labour of love with the most beautiful native plantings bringing all our melodic and cheeky bird friends to it!
The show is open to the public for the next 3 week ends...head on in!

Getting ready to install this year.
I just really wanted to make some buckets, then some stools to put them on.
It's such an unpreposing vessel...hard working, waiting to be full of something...full of memories.
The jam pan bucket reminds off my mum making Quince Jelly...a stocking filled with boiled mash, draining light pink liquid into the pan, set in the bath... looking like an old ladies bottom. Mum said 'Don't touch or the jam will be cloudy!'
Five sets of small fingers just itching to pinch the bum!
The jelly was often cloudy! ;-)

A different type of 'Studio Glamour' shot...real hands, real mess, real chaos.
Clean up on aisle 'P' for pottery please! ;-)

It's been a strange old year 2025...lots of moths, tears and inevitably too much t n cake!
Here are 9 art projects that I loved doing this year...especially a couple of delightful colabs with studio buddy
Happy New Years all, stay safe and wishing you lots of new creative adventures in 2026!