for a chance to win one of our large handmade Mojo hearts (my favourite), follow the link to Capricorn Cheese on our website www.mudhutcompany.com.  The competition closes at the end of June.  Good luck!

new mud hut company website

our new website's onlinewww.mudhutcompany.com, so please take a look.  Only a small selection of our handmade tiles are currently up, and there are some glitches to take care of, but we're there!
Our thanks to Darryl for all his hard work, and for Capricorn Cheese for their patience whilst we link up to their gorgeous website.
Good things come to she who waits :)

whoops

apologies if you're trying to access the mud hut company website.  We've hit a temporary glitch, and as it's the bank holiday it'll take a couple of days to sort out.  Meanwhile if you need to contact us you can email janesdesigns@yahoo.co.uk.  Have a good weekend!

new website coming

mud hut company's moving forward.  Next week our lovely new website should be up and running, with a review of our products.  We're busy still working on a large order for antimacassar tiles, and in September the new 'Bubble' tiles will be featured in House and Garden.  Good days :)

the elves are busy

Busy week.  Bought new slab roller, received a tonne of clay and began production on over 700 Antimacassar 20cm tiles for a restaurant in Zurich.  Love the slab roller.  So quiet in the workshop without the constant banging of rolling pins - I never realised!!

Today working on a conservation project for the Isle of Wight using porcelain.  Lovely stuff, if exacting.  Thought you might like to see new images of 20cm x 15cm hand of Fatima tiles which I think might be going in my new shower room!!

busy days

Teaching at Weston All Saints Primary School today, with children making items for a fantasy garden.  Thanks everyone for a lovely day.

loads of stuff happening...

 Looking forward to a gathering of boys making clay easter eggs in the workshop tomorrow.  Meanwhile, mud hut company's gone for a rather beautiful take on the industrial interiors look with our Bubble tiles.  Here's how they look en masse.  I want a whole wall done in them!!! 

And another version of the same tiles, softened with a new border version of Antimacassar which is REALLY lovely.  All in all, a good day's work. 

Oh, and just sending off some Bath tiles to Grasse on Pulteney Bridge, which is a really gorgeous - and independent - lifestyle shop run by the lovely Jo.  Busy busy busy. :)

children's clay workshop next Wednesday

There are spaces available for 2 children (5 - 11 years) next Wednesday, 4th April, 10.30 - 12 at our workshop in Warmley.  Please email if you're interested.  Cost just £10 per child. Thank you!

summer's coming.

Reading the May edition of Living etc.  All that blue and white to uplift the spirits.  Been sitting in the conservatory, and tackling the garden today.  The fig's gone crazy, the bougainvillea coming to life, olive tree sprouting new branches, geraniums out.  Love it.

a little quote from the Songlines....

Reading Bruce Chatwin's 'The Songlines' again 20 years on... beautiful.  I love this ....
from Exodus 20:25...
'And if thou wilt make me an alter of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.'

Honour what we have,as it is :)

spring country living fair Islington

What did you think of the Country Living Fair?  I went yesterday as I'm considering a stand there for next year.  Met some nice women - Nila Rubia, who designs lovely clothes using Indian prints, and Welbeck tiles. Retail's definitely hit hard - plenty of shoppers but not so much shopping! A lovely sunny day nonetheless and very relaxing - followed my retailing sojourn with an extended lounge at Little Venice with sandwiches and smoothie!
So, trade fair or no trade fair?  Know any good ones, perhaps a bit more cutting edge than Country Living? 

hello new followers!

Thank you to all of you who have expressed such enthusiasm about our tiles since we were featured in House and Garden.  It's lovely to know we have new blog followers!

new tiles from mud hut company handmade in UK!

Individually made Peacock Parade turquoise glazed tiles brought to you from the Mud Hut Company. 

Bring a touch of exotic India into your kitchen!

Lace tiles in House and Garden

If you found us in House and Garden, welcome to mud hut company!

You can find more details of some of the tiles on our website.  If you want to know more about those not featured, or just want to know more, please contact us. 

find us in this month's House and Garden magazine!

Featuring in the current edition of House and Garden - our new Moroccan Lace collection of 10cm and 20 x 15cm tiles in sophisticated chocolate grey and white.
Tiles (clockwise left to right) are Lace, Bubble, Hobo and Antimacassar.  To find prices, go to the 'Tiles' page on our website.  Free post and packaging applies to orders placed on this collection during February and March, and there's no VAT to pay either!

Moroccan Lace tile collection in House and Garden

What a lovely entry of our new tile collection from Gabby Deeming in this month's House and Garden!  If you've seen them in the Insider Decorator's Notebook feature,  we'd like to offer you free postage and packaging on orders placed this month.  There's no VAT to pay on our handmade tiles either!  A new hearth for that woodburner you've been promising yourself?

new tile collection in House and Garden next month

Mud Hut Company's new Lace collection of handmade tiles will be featured in the April edition of House and Garden - on sale beginning of March 2012 :)

stop press! mud hut company teaching teachers...

it's been too long coming, but with so much teaching and ceramics experience, and so little teaching of ceramics in schools, it's time for me to properly share my expertise.  Mud Hut Company now offers workshops to schools to enable teachers to deliver clay sessions properly, and give children tangible 3D experience.  Email me for more info on one day basic workshops in handbuilding techniques, as well as follow-up 3 hour sessions in decoration techniques, smokefiring and advanced coiling. If you're not a teacher that's fine too!

new year greetings

to all followers of mud hut company handmade tiles... I hope 2012 brings beauty to your homes.
This year will be a good one.  A breath of fresh air. 
If you're considering a hearth or a splashback with our lovely tiles, we'd like to offer you a 10% discount on orders placed in January.  Why not?

Happy New Year!