Studio
Beginner clay tool set
Still using the same eight tools two years in. You need about four of them. The wire cutter and the wooden rib do most of the work.
₹650Where I got it →
Welcome to my corner of the internet
Hi, I'm Hema. I make things — search rankings by day, pots and paintings by evening — and I keep a small jungle alive in a Bangalore flat.
This is my little home online. Studio experiments, what the plants are doing, where I've wandered off to, the two poodles who run the place, and the occasional note on how I keep work and life on speaking terms.
This week
Glazing a batch of eight bowls, repotting the monstera that outgrew its corner, and planning a long weekend in Coorg.
On repeat
Morning walks with Cameo and Yuki, watering rounds at 7am, and a Sunday with no laptop.
Ask me about
Keeping 200 plants alive in a flat, beginner pottery, hill-station weekends, and how I actually log off at six.
Around here
The corners of this corner
Studio
Pottery, painting and digital art — finished pieces and the ones that cracked.
Plants & home
A growing plant diary, corners of the flat, and slow home projects.
Travel
Weekends in the hills, longer trips, and the places I keep going back to.
Cameo & Yuki
Two toy poodles, one of them still in her chewing-everything era.
From the journal
Recent notes
This is title
Hehe
Eight bowls, three cracks: what I learned from my first full glaze firing
The kiln does not care about your plans. Notes on thickness, drying and patience.
How I water 200 plants without losing my weekend
Zones, a rota, and the three plants I've given up trying to please.
Coorg in the rain: a slow three-day weekend
Where we stayed, what we ate, and why I'll only go in the monsoon now.
From the studio
Recent pieces
On Instagram
Lately
Things I use
A few things that make the flat work
People ask, so I keep a list. Some links earn me a small commission; nothing here is here because of that.
Plants
Self-watering planters
The reason I can leave for a long weekend without begging someone to come water things. I use the 8-inch ones for the pothos and the ferns. Not for succulents — I killed two learning that.
₹899Where I got it →
Poodles
Slow-feeder bowl
Cameo inhales food otherwise. Took her meal from eleven seconds to about four minutes. Yuki finds it insulting and eats from Cameo's old bowl.
₹549Where I got it →
Travel
The weekend tote
Fits two days of clothes and a sketchbook. Canvas, one inside pocket, no structure at all — which is either the charm or the flaw depending on how you pack.
₹1,299Where I got it →
A letter now and then
Once a month or so: what's in the kiln, what's blooming, where I went, and anything I found worth sharing. No schedule, no spam.
About
A bit more about me
I run a small SEO and digital marketing studio, I've been throwing pots for two years, painting for much longer, and collecting plants for as long as I've had windowsills. I live in Bangalore with Cameo, Yuki, and two very patient flatmates.