This is absolutely random but my friends and I were thinking on doing some activity together, and yup, we have mixed personalities and preference. I, for instance, don't like hiking and I don't wanna go camping while they kinda wanna do either 1. So being a genius me (perasan), I must come with a solution to take their minds off of those activities and suggest them a new one that's even more attractive. I have been wanting to do something different and attend classes, and I found pottery class nearby! I was sooooo glad that they immediately agree with my suggestion hahahaha! (that's how much i dont wanna go hiking 😭 camping okay lagi lol)
Okay before you judge me, I'm a 100% kampung girl so dirt is not the reason I dont wanna go camping. I actually camped too much during my schooldays, especially when I was in the police cadet, and we represented Johor during that time and camped for almost a week. Then PLKN also got camping, haiyaaaa 😐 So, I don't wanna do activities related to camping because I did that all growing up and I just wanna do something else. But as for hiking, I'll be honest- I'm not a fan.
Now back to the story.
We went to the pottery class in December, and I only post it on the blog this month as the arts we made took around 1 month to be ready and of course I wanna show you what I made!
|| THE POTTERY CLASS
The pottery class we attended is at A Leaf Pottery. Located in Eco Botanic, Nusajaya. A Leaf Pottery actually offers 2 types of pottery classes which are hand building and wheel throwing. Hand building is like playing with Play Dough but of course with proper steps and tools to make your own art while wheel throwing is the one with the spinning wheel that often seen on the internet. Or romantic movies. Yup, definitely seen a lot in romantic movies where lovers do pottery together and then come the haram scene HAHA.
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| Not sure why the sign put One Leaf Pottery but that's the one! |
Not trying to be romantic but we choose the wheel throwing class. I mean, you can't get this experience elsewhere and especially at home as the only thing that spins around in my house besides the fan is the blender lol. The pottery shop closes on Thursdays so after a few discussions, we decided to go on weekdays as we are all busy during the weekends and we need to use the AL anyway.
Our class started at 10.30am (we took the morning session) and we were greeted by Mr Moo upon our arrival. This class starts with a short briefing because their aim is not just for people to enjoy making arts but understand the art and appreciate them more.
And don't worry, it's not boring at all!
We were shown the differences between porcelain and stoneware and which one we are going to use in the class and why it took around one month before we can collect our arts. It's all because of the processes involved. The arts are going to be dried for a couple of days, then burned, glazed, and burned again, and that's a whole lot of steps just to produce small arts that we made! Imagine, the first burning takes 1 whole day and at a temperature of 900°C! The arts must be cooled down first before proceeding with the next steps. That's why it takes time.
Also, they do the burning process based on the amount of the arts made. So, one month is actually the maximum time for us to get our products. Lucky for us, A Leaf pottery made quite a lot of business nowadays (lots of people come for the art class and so many arts to bake) and we are able to get our arts faster.
|| MY EXPERIENCE
Therapeutic, calming and stress relieving... well, not all of it are true if you are such a short-tempered person hahah! My friend, Myra and I were having quite a hard time because both of us are quite short-tempered, unlike Dila & Linda hahah. For me personally, it's quite hard to control the shape of the clay but it's really fascinating to see the movement of clay with just a little touch. So, yes, I agree on the calming and stress relieving part but not until when you suddenly made the wall of the clay too thin and it collapsed. Now THAT makes u stress gila HAHA. Luckily, I didn't experience that but one of the art I made collapsed after I take it off of the wheel 😅
We were given 3 clays to make our arts and we can each choose one art to bring home. Well, you can choose more than 1 but extra item will cost you RM30.00 each. I choose to bring home 2 so I need to add money~ You can make anything out of the clay, and really anything! From vase to bowls to cups, whatever u wanna make, you can. But the size of the clay is not that big as it's just a beginner's class so don't plan on making huge arts.
The next step is to pick the color of the glaze. Glaze is the color on pottery products we often see. It coats the art and makes it more durable and strong but glaze is not paint - it is actually a mineral. Each mineral produces different color when baked, and the same mineral might produce different color based on the firing temperature. We picked the color based on the art displayed and I picked dark brown for my first bowl, and white + purple for my second bowl.
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| Look at how cute this baby is! I actually wanted this color but i forgot what ms Moo said about it so i took purple instead 😢 |
|| THE ARTS
During briefing, we have been told that the art will shrink during the firing process so we don't expect the art to be the same size as when we made them. I was excited to make a bowl for my ramen but since it's gonna shrink, I just do a bowl for whatever fits.
To our suprise, it actually shrinks a lot! It can fit a normal pack of maggie before, but after the firing and glazing process, it can barely fit half of the maggie hahahah. But it's still cute! I love them!
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| My friend's art |
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| Mine! |
Well, I choose purple color to combine with white and I think it turned out great but other people keep telling me that it's pink, not purple. What do you think?
|| MY REVIEW
Honestly, I really recommend this class! Once you get the hang of it, it's really fun and time passes by so quickly you won't even realize.
As usual, here's my review:
🍵 10 for the service (the owner & his daughter are so nice and soft spoken!)
🍵 9.8 for the ambience
🍵 9.8 for the location
🍵 10 for the art outcome!
Will I come again?
Yes! But I'd like to join other activities and classes first for now.
Will I recommend this activity to the others?
Yes, definitely go! Experience it at least once!
Address:
A Leaf Pottery
30A, Jalan Eko Botani 3/6,
Taman Eko Botani,
79100 Iskandar Puteri, Johor
Phone: 012-776 6216
Facebook: A Leaf Pottery (click!)
Instagram: A Leaf Pottery (click!)
Till then, thank you for reading this entry!
HaniShubie
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