Build your own Cornish cottage, from your kitchen table.
A hand-building pottery kit that lets you shape, carve and decorate your own miniature cottage incense burner — no wheel, no studio, no experience needed. When you’re done, send it back to me and I’ll fire and glaze it, ready to bring home.
How it works
1. Your kit arrives with everything you need to hand-build your cottage — clay included.
2. You build it at home, at your own pace, following the step-by-step instructions.
3. Post it back leather-hard (still soft, before it fully dries) using the included instructions.
4. I fire and glaze it in my Tamar Valley studio, then send your finished piece home to you.
What’s in the box
Every kit includes a full set of hand-building tools: a canvas work cloth, wooden rolling guides and rolling pin, carving and needle tools, a scoring tool, sponge, kidney rib, slip cup and water pot — plus ceramic paints and a brush so you can decorate your cottage before it’s fired.
Each kit comes with step-by-step instructions written to guide you through the whole build from first roll of clay to final details.
Two ways to build
Classic Kit — everything you need to build, carve and paint your cottage. Instructions online for download.
Premium Kit — includes decoration moulds (think tiny flowers, seagulls, and other Cornish touches) so you can press extra detail into your cottage, yours to keep after. Printed Instruction booklet included in the kit as well as recorded online demonstration by me.
First release
Tamar Valley Cottage
Our launch kit — a cottage inspired by the valley where my own pottery journey began.
Each cottage kit is a little different, and so is every one you build. Once it’s fired and glazed, you’ll have a piece that’s entirely your own — made by your hands, finished by mine.