Give pottery for Xmas gifts, gain a mother’s love

You know what’s a nice thing to do? Buy­ing pot­tery to give to people as gifts. You know what else is a nice thing to do? Pimp­ing your moth­er out. Awww yeah. It just so hap­pens that my moth­er is a pot­ter, and she’s hav­ing her annu­al pre-Christ­mas open house at her studio/gallery this week­end in Ngaio.

I will have some excel­lent pots, func­tion­al and dec­or­at­ive, pots hot from the kiln ( I hope)… and a ver­it­able grave­yard of pots for the garden injured mainly in trans­it, lov­ingly restored that I’m will­ing to part with at bar­gain prices.

For those of you who already own a pot, are sat­ur­ated, or make your own, guest exhib­it­ors Angie and Rus­sell Dear will have some won­der­fully arty and dif­fer­ent pho­to­graph­ic views of Wel­ling­ton on photo blocks or lar­ger can­vasses.

This is a great chance to stock up on gifts and home­ware for your­self, at ludicrously cheap prices (because you’ll be sav­ing on shop com­mis­sions, and also there will be what she calls seconds on sale, which you and I would call “oh that tiny little speckle on the bot­tom of the pot right there hardly vis­ible to the naked eye, you think that’s an imper­fec­tion???”).

Pot­tery Open Week­end

• 11am-5pm Sat­urday and Sunday
• 24 &25 Novem­ber
• 35 Huntleigh Park Way, Ngaio

Please note that Huntleigh Park Way is up the top of a big hill, so you may want to drive instead of tak­ing pub­lic trans­port. Keen walk­ers, how­ever, should check out Huntleigh Park Out­er Green Belt while they’re up there. Decent cof­fee and hearty por­tions can also be found in Ngaio at Cafe Villa.

PS: while we’ve got our pimp hat on, giv­en they’re both in the Wel­ling­tonista, we’d be remiss not to sug­gest gor­geous laser-cut jew­ellery from Super­Very and all kinds of design good­ies at Wanda Har­land.