A Colour That Followed Me: The Story Behind Our Antique Glaze
A reflection on beauty, belonging, and the colours that stay with us.
Blizzard: A Quiet Call to Rest
In a culture that glorifies the grind, winter’s quiet invitation to rest often goes unheard. But in nature, nothing blooms all year. The cold months are not a pause—they’re a vital part of the cycle. A time when the soil softens underground, when trees pull inward, and cellular renewal quietly begins.
Our Blizzard colour-way honours this slow, restorative energy. Dipped in an edge-of-night blue glaze and swept in a frosty white, this colour combination evokes the immersive stillness of a snowstorm. The darker speckled clay beneath adds a weather-worn warmth—like rich soil beneath a blanket of snow, waiting in quiet dormancy. Blizzard honours the deep rest, cellular renewal, and inward reflection that only cold seasons can call forth. Each piece is hand-glazed with intention, allowing the elements to land where they may.
May each sip this season be a reminder: rest is not just allowed, it’s essential. Let winter hold you.
Learning to Winter
For most of my life, I escaped winter. I chased summer into the opposite hemisphere, following the sun whenever winter began to set in, wanting its warmth to keep me energised, never realising I was also feeding a life that was already overstimulated, over-caffeinated, over-committed and over-socialised. I was, in many ways, running from rest.
Over the past three years, my relationship with winter began to shift. I didn’t choose this change so much as arrive at it—a consequence of learning to surrender to what life was asking of me, and to what I could not control. I slowed down, slept deeply, ate hearty food, declined social events, moved more mindfully and made space for emotions that were asking to be felt. It felt as though my cells themselves had entered a deeper rest.
When spring came, I felt ready to emerge from my winter cocoon—to meet the sun again, carrying a little less in my body and on my shoulders. I’ve come to honour this cycle now: resting, shedding, transforming, blooming, beginning again.
Blizzard was born from this journey—a reminder of the sacredness I now find in winter and its invitation to let go. Perhaps your own season is asking something of you, too. What are you ready to transform? What might you discover when you stop resisting the season you’re in?
The Blizzard collection includes a wheel-thrown mug with a soft retro silhouette, a matching tumbler latte cup perfect for warming matcha or iced affogatos, a classic espresso and long black cup, and a small handmade teaspoon to complete the set.
Small Hand Pourer - Marble Jupiter in Satin
