Today I have spent most of my day in the studio making. The run up to the holiday season is always a hectic time. I am making some incense houses and spoons. I have been making the houses now for 5 years and each batch is different, using different clays, decorating techniques and glazes. The ones shown here are the originals, made from porcelain that I smoke fired. They were not for incense cones either, this design developed over the years. Nowadays I wouldn’t attempt it in porcelain, they are much better suited to stoneware clays as I make them from slabs.