yesterday we took maddie to the emma bridgewater factory and design studio in Hanley for some painting fun, which i joined in with too. we had a lovely little table set up by all the goodies (stamps and paints) for us. we were given a quick demo on how to best paint our practise mugs before the real deal. i went for a crown and star decoration and maddie just enjoyed all of it. next we went for the real thing-maddie had a mini mug and i had a 1/2 pint mug to decorate. we had so much fun and are having our mugs posted to us by the end of the week..... we then had a complimentary drink in proper emma bridgewater mugs!!!!! we had a quick look round the seconds factory shop too- here are the photos