Pottery Care and Information

All of Stages Handmade Pottery has been made with stoneware clay and has been fired twice to temperatures ranging 1,855 to 2,223 degrees!

  • Items are water tight and are intended for every-day in both hot and cold uses and should be durable in most circumstances.
  • Your pottery is Microwave, Oven, and Dishwasher safe. However, keep in mind that when pottery is exposed quickly to extreme temperature changes like taking a vessel from the freezer into a heated oven, or a hot item and putting it in a snow bank etc., cracking will occur.
  • Do not expose pottery to an open flame or set it on a hot stovetop burner. Again, drastic change in heat causes cracking.
  • If you sense any irregularities in any area in regards to pieces you have purchased from Stages Handmade Pottery, please contact us immediately.
  • Please wash each item of pottery before use.
  • Please keep in mind that no two pottery pieces are the same, there will be slight inconsistencies in glazes, shape, handle, etc. This just means that each item is indeed handmade!

Is your pottery Dishwasher/Microwave Safe?

It is! Which I know for myself begs a sigh of relief! Enjoy your pottery as you would any other ceramic or glassware in your home. Anything with a very thin lip at the top will be more prone to chipping but over-all the pottery I make is very durable.

Where do you source your materials and tools?

The majority of my clay, glazes and tools come from a bricks and mortar store called S&S Pottery Supply House in Kitchener. All the Clay from S&S is Canadian sourced. A handful of my other items are from Amaranth Stoneware House in Kingston ON.

Some of my packaging is recycled materials, others come from Creative Bag Missasauga.

Do you accept custom orders?

I do! Occasionally the timing doesn't work out if I have a lot on the go, but for the most part I welcome your ideas! If you have a custom order inquiry, please fill out the contact form with what you were thinking or send me a direct message over Instagram and I will contact you back with further details or if it will be doable for me at all.

Please keep in mind that when presented with an idea, while staying true to the idea, I will complete it in my personal style.

Depending on the complexity of custom order please allow for a 2-4 week lead time before completion.

Do you teach lessons?

I have in the past, however I found that with trying to maintain inventory on top of teaching lessons, it was just too much. I have limited kiln space and like to be able to leave projects out to work on them in the small amounts of time I have in the studio.

Do you offer shipping?

My pottery ventures come one step at a time. For the moment, I do not offer shipping. Perhaps when I feel comfortable operating an online store I will take on another area of distribution. So far however, I feel very supported by local customers and don't create enough pottery to expand my reach.

Where did you learn to do pottery?

I am a self taught potter. The first wheel I ever tried was the one I bought with some of my savings. As daunting as this felt at times, I love learning through trial and error (most of the time). I made mistakes that would have definitely been avoidable had there been someone to teach me. However, I feel as though the clay and I became better acquainted as we learned each other's limitations and strengths.