Pottery - Widgits
Mike and Tina’s joint enterprise making small clay animals – with surprising success.
It started as a bit of fun to make some things that children could buy for a few pence at a charity fund raising event.
It snowballed from there into a small business. Mike and Tina could sit in the kitchen making these in the evenings. In the end the ‘Widgits’ were sold in various shops in London and even exported to the USA.
Kiln after the first 'Biscuit' firing before glazing
Making a set of elephants.
Shelves full of Widgits ready for dispatch
Elephants drying before the first firing
A few of the finished pieces
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs
Group of animals
Dinosaurs
Ready to go into the kiln
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs fighting
Dinosaurs
Hatching dinosaurs
Tortoise
Triceratops
Pigs
Sheep
Penguins
Owls
Widgits sticker