you well indigo fire is a clay and glass art studio and we're the first of its kind in the area and so we are is studio that has pottery wheels we have clay hand building and we also do glass fusing which is something that's new and i'll be telling you more about that in a minute  we offer classes drop in hours we do birthday parties workshops we do single nights we do a variety of things at the shop and we've been open for about six months fantastic let's let's take a look at some of the the items that you brought so so first thing i want to sort of point out is that we're kind of different from your typical painter own pottery shop because what we do have painter and pottery and what we really want to offer people is a chance to make their own pottery so when customers come in they can actually do a drop in they can make pottery you know with that with their hand we also pottery wheels we have six pottery wheels and most of that's done through classes so we have a piece here that was made on the pottery wheel and this is one of our typical leases sure somebody would start with yeah about two pounds of clay and so this is best done through a class or a workshop where we can really sit down with you and show you how to make something like this but this is done with a few pounds of clay it's put on a electric pottery wheel the the  student kind of hunkered over it and centers the clay and after the clay is centered start to pull the piece and create a hole and pull it up and while it sounds easy it can take a while for people to kind of master we start kids off at the aid yes of eight you need to be eight to work on the pottery wheels because it takes a certain amount of strength and focus also you learn how to trim the bottom of pottery so that's one piece and heard another piece of pottery that we you know were actually one of my doable by any kid you know eight and up and a lot of our customers who do drop in are younger kids with their parents and they can make little clay critters it and it fits imagination and that was something that was really important when i opened the shop who we moved this one for example was actually this is made by my staff and i can live we call them quick critters you know what we want to do is create a place that kids could really look imaginations soar so you give kids a couple of pounds of clay we show them a couple of basic tricks and techniques and before you know it you know they're making amazing things after an hour or so so just continuing with the pottery discussion we have here pieces also made on the pottery wheel and this is an example of our painter and pottery so unlike other pottery shop everything we do is handmade so we have a large shelf with pieces that people can paint everything is priced this is a learn how to cut it into sizes so we offer this on a drop in basis we teach classes and we also do parties with this art form this is a really simple project this is an ornament we do we charge about fifteen dollars to make this project this is dark blue glass we teach customers how to cut this into a triangle we have a ring saw where you can create waves and then customers leave the glass with us and we fire in our kiln at about twelve hundred degrees and they pick it up about a week later is an easy one and then we've got other things like jewelry that we can show people how to make more complicated pieces we reserve for classes and workshops this is a little more complicated yeah because the way this is done is we start with the base color and in this case it was just a clear base glass and then on top of that we have patterned glass blue glass red strips that have all been measured very carefully to fit into place like a puzzle we kind of we glue it down just a little bit of glue to keep it in place we put it in the kiln and it fuses together both sideways and together and also the edges get soft this piece actually has got in the kiln twice because it's also a ball so after we fuse it once and make it sort of a soft piece of glass we put it back in a mold where it slumps into a bowl shape in the gill in the yet so this is you know no one's doing this in the fun and it's easy and the results are beautiful it's just it's great to work with all this color there we also have a frame we do yet this is a piece that my class my last class did last week this is there's some layering involved and some measuring involved but these are this is a variety of blue glass that we have in the shop we have gloves that people can use we have cutting tools we have books and designs and ideas but if you want to come into a drop and we'll give everyone a basic to tauriel or get them set up with the glass if they want to take a class we get into more complicated projects and customers need to be eight to work at the glass table as well very interesting what brought you to build what you know it was kind of a fluke i was looking for a location for my business and i saw this new construction on concord ad and it just kind of spoke to me it so this is one of our kilns these are the large ovens where we fire everything this is a show of the pottery that customers can paint just chosen because those part of you the staff all of us make you make it there and then we just make it we love to make it and put it on the wheel and make those pieces this is a kid's hand building class we're showing them how to work with the cli this particular kid is actually in a pottery wheel throwing class that's behind her and this is a pottery wheel this is my staff person center in the clay which is the first thing you learn on the pottery wheel how to keep that clay in place right in the middle which is plain water and it is it's a little muddy everything washes out and it's very relaxing it should be relaxing and some people get a little stressed out we really teach the kids a lot of independence we want the kids to learn how to find the tools how to clean up how to work when you take a pottery wheel class you get studio privileges which means you can come in practice whenever we're open we want to we've created  community people bring their bikes down they hang out with us this is our glass fusing area we have some tools and samples on the shelves and this is our pick up shelf so when customers are a to pick up out what classes you have to go vailable or that's a good question right now i'm posting through a couple different belmont parents lists and i'm posting through boston dot com events just different websites and we also have very active website everything is done online so customers can go to our website find the class would like to register for it and it's click and choose it ok and if i had four or five people that was interested were interested in getting together and doing something with them i could give you a call or we can set up a little class and we do private events you know we do birthday parties and yet people have had we've had some groups we had some christmas parties with teachers this holiday season we have a lot to birthday parties and weekends this very spacious place of very sunny and well lit you know i think we have found something very unique a place that people have been looking for we hear all ages we get the two year olds we get the people nine hundred ninety year olds so if i were if i was to make a piece typically it would be worth twenty dollars twenty five dollars and i would get the clay the instruction actually is a little less than that are glass pendants are about thirteen dollars and working with chloe is fifteen dollars give you two pounds of clay we give you a basic to tauriel you can use any of our tools you can hang out as long as you want we don't charge a sitting fee something that i feel strongly about you know so you know sometimes we have kids that sit for ten minutes sometimes we have kids at that for two hours and just mak forth the pressing down a piece of clay that i guess was going to be made into a mask yes but i was little i was interested in the fact that you mentioned one of your clients have come in and actually made tiles yes for the kitchen would you talk about that for a second sure that machine is called a slab roller and it's a large piece of equipment that you slide clay through and create an ice for long flat pancakes clay if you will we had a customer come in and make tiles for their kitchen renovation project and was pretty low cost effective way for them to do something very personal and they had to cut the clay to size and then they designed it however they wanted and use some of our glazes and about ten days later they had these really nice homemade pieces or do they have to cut it they actually have to cut the clay out yet and we have those tools and we sell those tools also and you know a lot people have their own tools i can't tell you how many times i've heard people come into the shop and say you know i haven't done belmont you know some things that work better than others you know we've had a singles meet up one night and they didn't that was it took me about ten women and one guy so we'll try that again about no no i'm excited to be here and people are finding us and i just would encourage anyone who's interested in you know supporting a new best buy a new business in belmont to come visit as well it's you know it's belmont