Diary of a Teapot Collector » Sue Blazye

Hi there
I know it’s late as usual.
We didn’t make it to Tony Carters because we still hadn’t any mains electricity and the roofer and electricians were in and out all every day.
This had a real bad effect on Gary Seymour as well because he didn’t have his kiln so couldn’t make any pots. At last, on the 16th January we got mains electricity reconnected.
After Xmas we had finished getting the house straight and the cleaning company come in to help cleaning the teapots. I had nightmares trying to not to let them touch any of my special pots things that I thought I couldn’t replace very easily.
I ended up washing a lot myself.

July 2005 - ‘T-6′ Six teapot designers gather at the Cardew Collectors Day

On the Friday night some of the collectors managed to make it to the barbeque. Paul did a lovely job as chef. Everyone had a good time at the T6 open day. Paul gave the collectors a vote on what colour the final ‘Fairy Infusion’ was going to be.

If you were lucky enough to have a tour of the Design Studio, you got a chance to see the new range of ‘Wallace and Gromit’ items and the newly revamped Nat West pig family that Paul has designed for ‘Enesco’.

April 2005

Hi everyone

I’m glad to see that Cardewclub.com is now up and running.

I am getting the next lot of pictures ready for them to enter and when I get a bit of time, I will be checking to see if they have been listed correctly.

I went to the NEC Spring Fair to check out the new designs for this year.

Tony Carter had 11 ‘new’ designs but I am sorry to say that 9 of them were re-issues of old designs. There were only two new designs - a sewing machine and a one-cup golf bag.

Hi everyone.

Welcome to my contribution to the new Cardew site in the disguise of a diary. You will be glad I am sure, that I am only going to write about one of the loves in my life - Teapots.
I was very excited when Peter came to visit us at Teapot Island to talk to us about what they wanted to do in the future. Particularly, when he offered me the chance to do two things that I have been thinking about doing for a long time.