Bird Feeders

The sun is shining, so the clay is drying and the Kiln is back in action! All this means it is full steam ahead in the preparations for our first craft fair of the year on 12-13th April
(http://www.classicfestivals.co.uk/#!about/c1enr)

Here at Embar Pottery, we do like to make practical things fun and decorative. Last year we started a new line of bird feeders. There were seed feeders and fatball feeders.

This is the seed feeder and below is the fatball feeder.

about half way through last year, we decided that we needed to make a smaller version of the fatball feeders, so we made a collection of small feeders with exactly the same design but which hold 1 or 2 fatballs instead of the 3 or 4 that these ones hold.
Both the large and the small fatball feeders were a success, and we have made a selection of new ones for this year.

Unfortunately the seed feeders were not as successful. We have been debating the reason why, and we have decided that one of the reasons people are put off them is that they are quite heavy. The large feeders are the same height as the large fatball feeders, but the fatball feeders have large holes cut out, so are about half the weight.

We have put our heads together and decided that we need to make the seed feeders smaller (thus reducing the weight) and have a rethink on the style of them, so for this year there is a new design of seed feeder.

The new design are much shorter with only one feeding platform, and have a pointy hood (not shown in this picture) to keep the seed dry.
They are going to be glazed in a variety of colours, and we shall see if they match the fatball feeders in popularity this year.