Lesley Tuchten Ceramics

Lesley Tuchten Ceramics I make custom pet ceramics based on the photos of pets you send me.

Jay asked me to sculpt his good boi, Beau the dog, on two 3D letters. One of them got Beau wearing the same tutu and uni...
04/03/2025

Jay asked me to sculpt his good boi, Beau the dog, on two 3D letters. One of them got Beau wearing the same tutu and unicorn horn he'd worn to Jay's wedding and the other has Beau in his smartest bow tie. Because Beau isn't just handsome, he also knows exactly what to wear to any occasion.

Beau would like you to know you should also treat yourself to some dopamine dressing. You're worth it.

My 3D letters come standard with a custom 7cm sculpture of whatever pet, animal, human or vegetable you would like, they end up being around 25cm high, and you can also choose the colour they're dipped in.

Inbox your email address for more details ☺️

A snack platter with a custom sculpted horse for Lara!I don't get a lot of horse sculpture orders, but I LOVE sculpting ...
26/02/2025

A snack platter with a custom sculpted horse for Lara!

I don't get a lot of horse sculpture orders, but I LOVE sculpting them. So I'm hoping all the horsey people will see this and get in touch.

If you want your horse immortalised please send me your email address for a price list ❤️

Cait asked for her best girl, Jack Russell X Maltese, Rosebud to be sculpted twice. Once sitting and the second time sta...
20/02/2025

Cait asked for her best girl, Jack Russell X Maltese, Rosebud to be sculpted twice. Once sitting and the second time standing in a ring bowl.

Rosebud isn't with us anymore so I'm hoping this memorial gives Cait a bit of comfort.

If you'd like your own custom pet sculpture, drop me a message with your email address and I'll send prices ❤️

This is Zeuss (double L important), and he was custom sculpted onto my medium ceramic Soya urn, which is about the size ...
13/02/2025

This is Zeuss (double L important), and he was custom sculpted onto my medium ceramic Soya urn, which is about the size of a softball. It's called a Soya urn because the first one ever still holds my best girl Soya, cat-demon incarnate, evil personified, snottiest sneezer this side of the Welsh marshes (I hear they have lots of pollen).

It's a good size for smaller dog breeds and most cats. It's round because I needed something I could hold when I missed her that was comforting.

You get a mini pet sculpture on top, so not as much detail as the usual, but still enough to know it's them.

This is also me trying out posting from my Odoo app, which is just the most grown up business lady thing I've ever invested in. Some of you were the guinea-pigs for me testing their invoicing app. And later today I will MAKE A WHOLE NEW WEBSITE IN ONE DAY using their website builder. I'm betting I will do a lot fewer of the 7 stages of grief that I went through before with *unmentionable* company.

Odoo has not sponsored this post. But I love them. So much.

Finishing day for these custom cat cake topper sculptures! I can't wait to see pics of this cake from the wedding ❤️❤️❤️...
12/02/2025

Finishing day for these custom cat cake topper sculptures! I can't wait to see pics of this cake from the wedding ❤️❤️❤️

Delicious Coco! Just a little Jack Russell, asleep on her favourite blankie. Thank you Jasmine for ordering this custom ...
07/02/2025

Delicious Coco! Just a little Jack Russell, asleep on her favourite blankie. Thank you Jasmine for ordering this custom pet sculpture. I really love Jasmin's choice of natural clay coloured face surrounded by white glaze, my customers have the best taste 😉

As always, if you have an animal you want immortalised in ceramics, just pop me your email address and I'll send prices. I'm shipping to the US and Europe now for bigger orders.

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Today it's the turn of beautiful Luna. This is my 15cm sculpture range, and she was ordered by Kim for her husband's Chr...
30/01/2025

Today it's the turn of beautiful Luna. This is my 15cm sculpture range, and she was ordered by Kim for her husband's Christmas gift.

Inbox me for 2025 prices 🧡

For Christmas, Lizelle asked me to do her son and his great dane, Fluffy, on a 3D letter S. And here they are ❤️        ...
24/01/2025

For Christmas, Lizelle asked me to do her son and his great dane, Fluffy, on a 3D letter S. And here they are ❤️

I'm almost done with Cat I Met In Athens, and I totally forgot I had a video of him saying "no thank you" to pats. In th...
20/01/2025

I'm almost done with Cat I Met In Athens, and I totally forgot I had a video of him saying "no thank you" to pats. In the video you can see his incredible ear tufts. What a guy.

As usual I'm using oil pastels, which makes my art teacher sigh because he's just itching to get me into oil paints but I'm too lazy for all the cleaning up you have to do every time you paint anything.

Say hello to Joey the Peke! Philip ordered this mug for his beloved, with a sculpture of her beloved, and now they are a...
16/01/2025

Say hello to Joey the Peke! Philip ordered this mug for his beloved, with a sculpture of her beloved, and now they are all together ❤️.

We're waiting for news from the vet on our Peke, which I'm assuming will be "she's been quacking from her cage all night and she tried to eat our office cat."

Ok so I forgot I had page or a job over the last 2 weeks! Sorry. Here are some of the orders that went out since early D...
14/01/2025

Ok so I forgot I had page or a job over the last 2 weeks! Sorry. Here are some of the orders that went out since early Dec, starting with the latest to leave the studio: order Strümpher-Lumby, a house sign with their 3 kiddos on it!

At the moment I'm trying to process the mental load of full work days in combo with the continuing summer social season. It's not going well. Or maybe it's going too well. If the friends groups could stop being so much fun please, and also if someone could make a decent tasting low alcohol wine? Super grateful in advance.

Also, Mom, 3.5kg is too much Christmas cake for one person to eat. Next year let's stick to half a cake. Or maybe a third. And no, I also won't share. Ask your own mom to make you eleventy tonnes of cake, nuts, and sugared fruit.

So pretty! Tulbagh, , and  pulling out all the stops as usual. If you go, please make sure to pet the dogs, they're so h...
07/12/2024

So pretty! Tulbagh, , and pulling out all the stops as usual. If you go, please make sure to pet the dogs, they're so happy to see everyone ❤️.

This is Kimchi. And this is the story of how I made Kimchi 3 times for Tamsyn who is a saint. He is an example of my 25c...
28/11/2024

This is Kimchi. And this is the story of how I made Kimchi 3 times for Tamsyn who is a saint. He is an example of my 25cm standalone sculpture range.

Time the first: Kimchi blew up in the kiln because I tried to fire him when he was damp.
Time the second: I was photographing the finished and klaar Kimchi when my cat jumped up and knocked him on the ground, smashing him.

Loooooooong pause.

Time the third: this guy ⬆️. Every step was perfect. I loved every moment of it. But I got scared when it was time to package. I procrastinated. Then I screwed up my courage, absolutely COVERED Kimchi in bubble wrap and did the scary thing. He arrived yesterday, safe and sound.

Thank you so much Tamsyn! Your patience and understanding was a gift, and making Kimchi for you was a privilege.

You can order your own! Just inbox me for details ❤️🐈

🎄You can still order the kitty cookie jars all the way up to mid December!🎄 Inbox me for colour options, courier to your...
25/11/2024

🎄You can still order the kitty cookie jars all the way up to mid December!🎄 Inbox me for colour options, courier to your home is included in the price. Boston and Labrador cookie jars are also available.

🎄Custom orders are closed but the cookie jars are still available for order until 15 December 🎄They come in Labrador, Ki...
15/11/2024

🎄Custom orders are closed but the cookie jars are still available for order until 15 December 🎄

They come in Labrador, Kitty, and Boston Terrier.

You can order them a few ways. Either go to my website (link in bio) and use the easy checkout, or inbox me for colour options.

Look at Kimchi all underglazed up! One day I'll have the guts to tell you all the story of how I'm glazing my 3rd statue...
07/11/2024

Look at Kimchi all underglazed up! One day I'll have the guts to tell you all the story of how I'm glazing my 3rd statue of Kimchi over 2 years and somehow none of them have reached the client, who is inexplicably, still prepared to be a client.

But instead I'll talk about how I've had to start pilates again, thanks to a s**tty lumbar disc, and a full life that won't slow down for chronic back pain.

My pilates instructor is an ex gymnast.

I (42 yo) am in the same class as the 70 yo ladies who are recovering from joint replacements. I am not better at the exercises than them. I will be in this class for a long time.

Last Monday, we're all lying face down on the mats trying to lift only the middle part of the back. Is that thoracic? Whatever it is, me and my side of the gym are battling.

Pilates instructor tries to explain which complicated and limited set of muscles to use. She says: imagine someone is giving you a medal, it's your courageous posture.

Goddam but I've giggled since then. Through the slow and spikey death of an entire democracy, through managing hard s**t for an aging parent, through liquid anxiety.

And OK I've been given academic awards (once) but it was so embarrassing and I had to walk onto a stage in an auditorium as a deeply uncool 14yo in front of a whole, sports mad school. I scuttled onto that stage and tried to be as small as humanly possible.

But I have NEVER been the kind of meat sack that is given medals for using the meat sack well. In fact the only sport I ever played was 6 months of netball in grade 8. And the thought of getting a prize for being a really really crap netball player is still so funny that I can't stop laughing.

And I only figured out how to do the movement when she said to clench under my armpits. Try it. You do sit straighter.

This is a chaotic time of year for us small biz owners. Help a gal out by ordering before the deadline. It's not arbitra...
31/10/2024

This is a chaotic time of year for us small biz owners. Help a gal out by ordering before the deadline. It's not arbitrary, it's because that's how long it takes to make and send when I'm being my MOST efficient. On the 24th of Dec I fall over and turn into a potato.

In other news, despite a lot of hard work and practice I simply cannot create brand images that look professional. So I'm giving up. This ⬆️ is how it's all going to look from now onwards. Reels will not be carefully crafted to maximise engagement, there will be no hook or "trending sounds". It's just going to be a 40something year old with a janky phone taking s**t pictures and pasting some text over them.

Frankly, you didn't respond to them and I felt like an ar****le posting them. They did not equate to more orders. Only an ad a week has done that for me and if its works and doesn't make me feel like Shein Barbie trying to sell her Temu "mansion" on Facebook Marketplace then great.

If this is just the perimenopause talking then we can revisit in 10 years. Good luck and good night to all who suffer. May we all meet up in a decade waving unfilled prescriptions for Ritalin, Xanax, and Ozempic.

Am I hangry?

Two of the CUTEST pups for Tasha's wedding cake, Aurie and Moo (belly up as Moo does). I can't wait to see the photos fr...
30/10/2024

Two of the CUTEST pups for Tasha's wedding cake, Aurie and Moo (belly up as Moo does). I can't wait to see the photos from the wedding 👰🎂🤵‍♂

Another gentle reminder that my Xmas orders close on 8 Nov BUT that doesn't mean I won't hit capacity before then so best to order now.

Inbox me your email address for a pricelist ❤️

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Riebeek-Wes
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