Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Potting mix

I was 16 years old when I first fell in love with hand-made pottery. My teenage self was swayed – or more accurately, my teenage self’s hormones were Swayzed – by that famous moment in the hit movie Ghost when Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze get down and dirty at her potter’s wheel.

To an otherwise unsexy soundtrack of by the Righteous Brothers, Demi – in a perfectly impractical crisp white sleeveless shirt – and Patrick, shirtless and as rippled as an

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