Spend three slow hours hand-building your own teapot at Ochre's Tea Set Workshop in Mullumbimby, fifteen minutes from Byron Bay. Beginners welcome. Cooler months only.

The long table, coloured with flowers, little ceramic dishes filled with pearls, handmade beads, colourful glass, gold-filled and sterling silver findings. Wine poured, a cheese platter circulating, jazz filling the room. Two hours to design and assemble your own earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, with me moving through the space offering guidance when you need it. From findings to wire, stringing to attaching, every piece leaves finished, considered and wearable.

“If I take a step back and look at Ochre five years on, I’m really proud of the work and my growth through pottery in particular. I’m proud of the space I’ve created and run workshops in. It’s never lost on me when the studio is full for a Saturday evening Clay Wine and Cheese workshop, wine is flowing, music is playing and everyone is busy making their pieces, it brings me so much joy.”

To try and understand the reason ‘why’ you want to start your business, it could be a personal one or it could be the driving ethos of your business.

A beautiful plate delicious recipe for a Frangipane and Pear tart, served in the beautiful Maria Serving Bowl by Ochre Ceramics. Available online. Be Inspired by create and bake.

“We were very much beginners, I had completed a beginners wheel throwing course a few years before, and my partner had made a little cup during lockdown last year, but that was as far as our Pottery career’s had taken us. That did not hold us back - with Lauren’s magic touch.”