Well this has been quite a year....! I want to thank all my customers and followers, both on this blog and on Instagram, for your continuous engagement and, in many cases, orders. Whether you buy my porcelain or just enjoy the pictures and stories, I love the way so many people respond and interact, and the sense of community that has grown these last few years. When I envisioned this business when I woke up one early morning now several years ago, this was what I had in mind

It's nearly Christmas and things are heating up here at Gentle Rattle of China - boxes, boxes, and more boxes are piling up waiting for the couriers to take them to my lovely customers! 🎁📦🎁📦🎁📦🎁 So although today I am giving you some beautiful pictures of exciting new stock I have in, I am going to write about more boring, but important things... To avoid the worst of the shipping chaos that usually occurs around the holidays, I will still be shipping international

These days many of us have to do the holidays in very small gatherings of two or three... but we can always dream of a full dinner table! And with the end of the pandemic in sight, we can plan for a wonderful Easter. So this week I am bringing together all the wonderful dessert services that currently reside in my stock room (and there are more than the nine in this picture). I love each and every one of them, in all their different ways. I stock dessert services that I truly