This place is really neat. I stumbled upon this storefront when I was unsuccessful in finding a piggy bank for Kolten that wasn't so darn cookie-cutterish. It's right off the main street in downtown wyandotte, and there is parking in front and across the street.
When you walk inside there are tables and chairs with cups of paintbrushes and other ones with rinsing water in them. The walls are lined with shelves of everything from plates, platters, cookie jars, wine goblets, chip & dip holders, tooth fairy boxes, piggy banks, ornaments, pitchers, plaques, fan pulls, flower pots, just about everything. The first time in, I was just getting some information and a feel of the rules, etc. There is an $8 studio fee [includes all the paint, utensils, glazing, and putting it in the kiln... well worth it] and then the cost of the item(s) you want to decorate.
When I went back to paint my piggy bank, the girls were very helpful in telling me how to choose my paints and things of that nature. I sat at the end of a table, working contently on my gift/project for Kolten. There were a few different groups of people working intently on their pottery too- one dad with his two children painting easter eggs, a small group of older ladies making keepsakes for a baby shower, and a large group of ladies working on various things together. I just so happened to go on a Saturday where they were offering 1/2 off studio fee... cha-ching!
They have a "Party room" 2 doors down from their actual store front. If kids want to have their birthday party there and invite friends to come and make their own trinkets, they get a free plate to decorate and make their own.
This place was so worth it, and I picked my lil piggy bank up one week later, shiny and perfect! I will definitely be spotted here again, making all those sentimental gifts for grandma and grandpa! haha! read more