This is my newest mug but it reminds me of two things I’ve held dear for a long time.
1. The hills of Galloway, and therefore God’s creation, because it was made at the studio of Hannah McAndrew and Doug Fitch, just north of Corsock, surrounded by the green countryside I grew up in.
2. Beautiful things can come from a muddy mess given time and patient hands because on my second visit to the studio in May, when I bought this mug, Hannah showed me how she made it. My mug is slipware so it started life as a sticky, slippy brown lump in Hannah’s bucket. If God is trusted and allowed to take the lead in a situation, He can make something amazing out of the most unpromising looking material just as Hannah did when making my lovely one of a kind mug.
www.fitchandmcandrew.co.uk has some video of the process.