CURRENT MISSION

making the perfect teapot and growing things :)

ABOUT ME

A ceramic artist from Latvia. After graduating from Falmouth University in United Kingdom, I have returned to my childhood home to set up a pottery in rural Latvia, and attempt to grow some dill and skill.

You can see my work here http://www.laimaceramics.com/ :)

In my "free time" I teach children and youngsters ceramics and sculpture in the local art school.

I love to do what I do and am very passionate about clay and the hand-made, so have become a bit of a workaholic and like to spend all my time perfecting my skills and trying to become better at what I do.

When I manage to get out of the studio I enjoy running around with my 5 horses, nature walks, making food for my family and friends and sauna on Sundays is a Must Do!

PHILOSOPHY

'I see a boundary, I eat a boundary, and wash it down with a mug of hot steamin' rules'

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

have surfed when travelling around Europe as much as possible, hosted a lot while living in Riga for 3 years, now much less since not so many people know there are other places in Latvia apart from the capital :P

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had only positive experience so far! I think the most amazing part is that I can again and again get convinced that there are so many wonderful, helpful and brave people in the world ^__^

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Interests

trees, tea, pottery, books, beautiful living, rain on a summers day, vegan, plant-based, my animals , rivers, cooking and non-cooking, sustainable living, my bike, yoga, flower meadows, mist, photography, moss, permaculture, gardening

• animals
• horses
• arts
• books
• photography
• dancing
• folk dancing
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• sauna
• gardening
• flowers
• traveling
• pottery
• knitting
• cycling
• history
• tourism
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

sounds of nature, David Darling, The Tallest Man on Earth, Regina Spektor, Andrew Bird, Beirut, Kimya Dawson, Beans on Toast, Fever Ray, Fleet Foxes, Bob Marley, Sigur Ros, Edit Piaf, Ludovico Einaudi, Placebo, Caravan Palace, Bjork, Adele, Goran Gora, Prata Vetra, Astro'n'out, etc etc

Films: Everything is Illuminated, Micmacs, The city of lost children, Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Jeux d'Enfants, A Very Long Engagement, Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Edward Scissorhands, V for Vendetta, Ratatouille, Ice Age

Edmunds Rudzits, Silvana de Mari, Paolo Coelju, Imants Ziedonis, John Wyndham, Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Theodore Zeldin "An Intimate History of Humanity", Okakuro Kakuza "The Book of Tea" :) etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was in an endless dandelion field!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can tell you about pottery, horses, dogs, cats, gardening, a little yoga and thats where my field of interests abruptly ends :D

Sadly I don't do free pottery lessons anymore, to do some of the courses here you should check out my website www.laimaceramics.com :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Latvia, United Kingdom

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