# Fluffymilk.com > Welcome to fluffymilk.com where art and life are given the creative response. - [A long view at the status quo] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/the-status-quo): looking at how we buy homes. Considering the impacts of lending and change of ownership costs in a lifetime when the average rate of resale is applied. - [Ahi Studios] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/taihape-creativity): Resourcing the opportunity for people to grow their creative confidence, foster inspiration and experience their own creative response. - [Pottery Studio Survey, have your say!] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/taihape-pottery-studio-survey): Opening a pottery Practice in Taihape and I am looking for your opinions - [Pottery by Carla] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/category/pottery_by_carla_woollaston): After a small dabble at a pottery club back in my picket fence years I always wanted to learn more. In recent years I took to watching the BBC's Great Pottery Throwdown. Each week, cup of tea in hand I would sit waiting for 7pm to roll round. The show introduced so very many more ideas than I had experienced! I was hooked! Of course this was followed by accidentally getting a contract in a production pottery.... driving a keyboard, nothing very pottery. But I got to listen to pottery people! It was wonderful! Then I started buying my own equipment! - [Withy Way] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/withy_way): Withy (noun) a tough, flexible branch of an osier or other willow, used for tying, binding, or basketry. "it is fixed with withies tied to the common rafters" Withy Way is all about my creative response to the lifecycle of plants and trees. Raising, planting, harvesting, weaving.... Recycling, repurposing, reimagining... - [SCULPTURE PLAY 3D] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/sculpture-play-3d): Sculping in Oamaru Stone makes my soul sing! In 2007 I cut into my first piece of Oamaru Stone! I have been dusty and deeply satisfied with the process ever since. Working Oamaru stone take a similar effort to working timber. Yet with the stone there is no grain direction to consider. You can use ordinary tools readily available in hardware or 2nd hand shops. - [Pottery Experiences/Services] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/thistleburn_pottery_experiences): Collaborative learning and shared pottery facilities: - [THISTLEBURN POTTERY] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/thistleburn_pottery): I have started with Pottery. What I probably mean is I have started with pottery again. There was that tiny effort back in the picket fence years when I would escape once a week to play with mud. - [I built a Geli-Plate] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/2223945): instead of buying a commercial Gelly Printing Plate because I thought they were "too expensive" I bought up large on ingredients and made my own. Here are some of my thoughts... - [New to Life Drawing] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/951038): Drawing, like yoga, is one of those practices that thrives on repetition! - [Taihape Studio/Pottery] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/956884): 2022 came with the hope of opening a studio in Taihape. The heart of the studio will be a teaching pottery with the goals of Inspiring Creative Participation and Building creative Confidence. - [Art Trail Manawatu] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/Art_trail_manawatu_Kairanga_Hub): 14 & 15 October 2023 9am - 4pm Daily I'm exhibiting at @angelcrab Wild Weaving 58 Aranui Road, Palmerston North - [I Bought a Pottery] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801693): Ok.... I may have overstated that ..... I actually came home with a kiln, potting wheel, slabbing desk, boxes and boxes of glaze, kiln furniture and collected shape makers. The bandsaw is a totally other story! - [Glaze hunting] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/blog-glaze-hunting): I revel in the process! Part of updating the fluffymilk.com website has lead me to doing a serious bit of homework on what more is needed in my glaze collections. - [Project - Foliage Lamp] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/Blog-Foliage-Lamp-UFO): I started this project in 2015 In 2021 I found some cool lamp shade frames... In 2022 I started some foliage dying printing experiments - [2019 Water Colour Play] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/917748): Once I bought Ochre Arts I decided to work out why so many people loved water Colour - [2017 Bell Bottomed Elephant #1] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/881947): this is the first of this lovely series. - [2021 Ruler Easel] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/905128): These groovy little easels herald the arrival of my bandsaw! #upcycle #oldmadenew - [The sun came up and the world changed] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/856935): A turning point in global health risks that will change everything. - [Pavloova Obnoxii] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/810217): My love of flamboyant pavlovas - [Introducing Edith] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/815718): I am very pleased to introduce another shape in my porcelain tumblers. - [2004 (ish) A lead light window from Years back] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/817571): This is a little work that My Sister and I designed and made together for our mum. Used as a wee light letting window in a new internal wall in Mum's home - it was an appreciated gift - [Frangipani] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801322): Influenced by sea shells and frangipani flowers, this work in Oamaru Stone is still hanging out here as a PHD. #sculptureplay3d #oamarustone #manawatu #artisanmade - [Recycled Rimu Pet Beds] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801352): Pet beds! We were looking for wood work ideas that could use the small lengths of reclaimed timber that came from waste windows. Just some sewing to go now. #sawdiddetails #byKea #getitdone - [2018 Ebbing ii - Oamaru Stone] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/813851): Sold. Kind thanks to Huia Photography and Studio. By Carla Woollaston An introverted piece, looking at movement round the self. Both high and low lines belong to the whole. It is as it should be. 4.64kg, 255 x 155 x 200mm - [2016 Emerge - Oamaru Stone] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801386): Emerge - in Oamaru Stone By Carla Woollaston - [Willow Works, Onekaka, NZ] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/811832): And here we ignite our use of willow! - [Thistleburn Pottery] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801692): I have started with Pottery. What I probably mean is I have started with pottery again. - [ Papakura Gift Project] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801653): When media washes us with image after image of nameless humans affected by cruel and distant problems I am often left grappling with the 'what can I do' question. - [ My love story with Oamaru Stone] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/794949): I am often asked where did I start? In 2007 when enrolled with The Learning Connexion as a distance learner I was able to attend a week long retreat at Yebo Art Studio! It was wonderful! - [Thrown Off Centre] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801694): This business of busy-ness has so much to answer for when it comes to creative realisation. It is never a lack of inspiration - woooah! - [Replica Pine & Leadlight Cabnet] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/801351): This little cabnet is so close to finished! - [2005 March] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/800604): Freestyle mosaics of obscure glass 2005 #mosaic #mosmat #gardenart #gardengifts - [2018 Slip casting] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/807441): Keep an eye on events for shape making workshops. The single piece mold is a very groovy shape making exercise. #thistleburnpottery #slipcasting #tumbler #pottery - [2005 Young Dad] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/800613): Acrylic on Canvas - [2005 James] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/800611): Acrylic on Canvas experimenting with grey scale. - [2006 Large boulder Mosaic] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/800607): 2006 Commission Creating a lizard on a large garden boulder - [2013 Glass Casting] (https://www.fluffymilk.com/blog/800610): Loss wax casting. Cast glass guitar slide featuring rose bud details.