The No-Drama
Pottery Club
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Wanna pick up a new hobby, get creative, build something with your hands? Or maybe you've been doing ceramics for years.
Either way — welcome!
Hi, this is Femke, and ceramics has become one of my favourite things in life.
I Did not see that coming!
I love, love, love being creative. I've been working in branding for years, but I'm also a bit of a silly perfectionist.
I thought while doing pottery you needed to be okay with not knowing what you'd end up with. And I didn't want to make 'art'. I wanted to make things. Things I'd actually use. Things I'd take out of the cupboard in the morning, thinking man…that's the perfect mug for me.
One day while working with my bestie Rosalia, I mentioned that I'd love to do pottery but didn't want to go through the whole wheel extravaganza.
She said ‘Haven’t you heard about a little something called slab building, silly?’
Rolling clay. Building with paper templates. The possibility of actually planned, intentional homemade ceramics.
Things that didn't look like something I made in 3rd grade.
Without a wheel, without years of practice. I tried it and never looked back.
God bless Rosalia!
Everyone can do this!
My husband Ben tested our free template — he had never touched clay in his life. You can see his result at the bottom of this page. And it's a banger!
Here, you'll get the whole starter kit:
a free template
three free beginner videos
a newsletter that keeps the inspo coming (psst — there's a free template hiding in there)
and another free mini template on top!
Let’s go and all build something beautiful together.
A little something in your inbox.
Once a month.
Projects, inspo, stories, recipes, recommendations, and the occasional deep dive into this great craft!
A new issue lands in your inbox every four weeks. Sign up now and get our very first issue straight to your inbox — complete with a love letter to clay, a jam cookie recipe, and a mini project you can make this weekend.
A Love Letter to Clay
Story
A personal story about loss, healing, and why working with your hands changes everything:
A not-so-brief love letter to clay.
Free for all subscribers
the ultimate comfort cookie
Recipe
Soft, buttery, with a little jam crater in the middle — these cookies are what Sunday mornings are made for. We make them while waiting for pieces to dry. Come on and join us!
Free for all subscribers
The mini heart brooch
Mini Project
A small, flat slab with the gentlest raised edge — just enough to keep your cookie from rolling away. Your first slab building project, done in under an hour. And yes, you should eat that cookie!
Free for all subscribers
Your first project.
A proper one.
And yes, you'll nail it.
Ready to actually make something?
Stackable Candle Trays
A complete project, free for you.
You'll make a set of stackable trays with raised edges — elegant, minimal, and genuinely useful. Add the candle ring to one, both, or neither. Stack them, gift them, keep them.
Along the way you'll learn two foundational handbuilding techniques:
Forming raised edges from a slab
Score and slip for attaching pieces
The kind of skills you'll use in almost every project after this.
Works with air dry clay or kiln fired — so you can start right now, whatever your setup.
In case you have never touched clay in your life: We’ve got you covered. You’ll get access to three of our Studio Stream vids:
How we prep our templates
How we roll our clay
How we cut our clay shapes
Leave us your email and we'll send you the template and the full video walkthrough — exactly what you get with every project in our shop. But this time, it’s totally free.
We got you covered all the way
the beginner mini video course
This is your prep talk
Three videos.
7:09 minutes.
You’ll learn everything you need to get started with clay.
Bonus: They come with
a free Stackable Candle Tray Template
and our free Newsletter*
*Unsubscribe any time. We don't do guilt trips here!
How we prep our templates
Here's how we cut out all the shapes and tape them together to make the template. Satisfying, really.
How We Cut Our Clay Shapes
This is where paper meets clay. Place your shapes. Position them right. Cut cleanly around them. That's the move.
How We Prep & Roll Our Clay
No slab without the roll. Here's how we do it: cut, roll, finish with a compress. Let's get into it.
Oh, and we owe you proof that literally anyone can do this…
Meet Ben's Candle Tray.
First time he ever touched clay in his life.
No notes.