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Creating stylish ceramics for people with good taste.

02/12/2025

On my packing desk ✨
Extra excited that I’m onto my last glaze firings - orders are starting to go out and I hope to have everything packaged up by the weekend at the latest 🤞
These stars weren’t actually that popular, but often when I’m cutting other ornaments, I can sometimes squeeze stars into the off cuts. Sounds romantic 😅

Anyway, I will announce the ready to send drop once I’m really very nearly finished with all current orders. I’ve got quite a few one-off pieces that I painted on a whim or made as a prototype and I’m so exhausted thinking about photographing every one and making separate listings that I’m thinking what fun it might be to do a $10 lucky dip situation 🤷🏻‍♀️😅 Yes?

22/11/2025

When I walk into a garden, I no longer see the beautiful blooms, I see potential. Pressing potential 😅 My mother in law’s garden was my latest victim, and even though I’m frantically getting things made for orders with every spare moment I have, and even though I knew these would be too soft to get truely ideal impressions, how could I not 🤷🏻‍♀️

10/11/2025

Newborn gifts ☺️

04/11/2025

Sometimes the cutest things don’t make the cut 🤷🏻‍♀️ Like this one. Like the design, love the speckled glaze, it was just a bit hard getting all the letter on.

Anyway, I’m here to let you know that there will be a ready-to-send drop in late November or early December. There’s about 300 pieces, and I think at least one thing from every design in my range. More info to come on that.

But questions/requests etc, drop it below 👇🏻 And I’ll mention, because a few people have asked, there is a ceramic paint that comes in little pots and pens (about $10 from Gordon Harris) that you can write names/years on the pieces and bake on and is reasonably permanent 👌

23/09/2025

Low quality post for this announcement 📣 (cute things on yesterday’s packing desk).

I’m taking a few weeks off (I know I said I’d be doing a drop about now). I’ve decided that 8.30pm Sunday 19th October 2025 (NZ time) will be the last Milk Press drop for 2025 Christmas, but also maybe the last drop forever 😳

Rising costs are crippling. Maybe it’s just been a bad month for outgoings, but for example, I paid $127USD for website hosting last year, this year it was $330USD (and I’m actually getting less because they’ve taken away email marketing which now an additional cost). My kiln insurance has increased to an eye watering $1170. Clay, electricity, child care, glaze, postage (omg POSTAGE!) all going up. I’ll wait to make a decision in the new year ✌️

Regardless, I’m very glad to have you here 😍

27/07/2025

This is his retirement party 🥳 🎉 🎈
Thank you for your loyal service, and we wish you all the best in your retirement.

Seriously though, this guy is absolutely being retired. I can struggle on no longer. Since his conception, getting his green colour right has been an arduous task. He’s the decoration I most commonly have to remake. He’s just so problematic I refuse to make him again, at all, ever. I will be replacing him with another trex, probably wearing a scarf BUT I’ll use a green clay so I don’t have to worry about streaky underglaze and below par green glazes 🙄🙄🙄 Standby for that new design which may or may not make the next drop 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Te Miro

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http://www.themilkpress.com/

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