Potts N Paints

Pots and pans is a quiet Mom and Pop Shop for painting your own ceramics. For about $30 a person you can get your own ceramic bowl or mug or ketchiki item and unlimited time to paint it. They have a giant grid showing what each color of glaze looks like once it's fired. That's super helpful because the wet glaze looks nothing like what it does coming out of the kiln.Overall our party of seven had a good time and spent about 3 hours painting our bowls, cups, an owl that holds a scrubby, and my niece had some sort of cat unicorn. She was in heaven. My daughter got one of the scrubby holders that was in the shape of a sharks mouth. She uses it to hold pencils and loves it because they sort of look like french fries all scattered out of the shark's teeth.Firing was supposed to be done in 7 to 10 days but ours was done in 4.

This is on North Mall Drive next to Lynnhaven Mall. Quickly becoming my favorite place to come.#1 Service is super helpful and friendly. Marissa is so wonderful about explaining everything. There are endless options of projects to make. You do not need to be creative or an artist or have any kinds of skill. You just need to be willing to make something. OUR group was all skill levels from no skill to totally skilled. We all had a blast.This is not your typical ceramic pots and paint anymore. It is AWESOME!!!Things they offer. *Pottery-- they offer a huge wall of various bisque and everything that you can think of including glazes, open paint bar, stamps, stencils and paint pens. They also fire the pieces after you glaze them. So you paint them and leave them to get fired and then you pick them up after the items are ready.*Canvas--You can pick any size and pick whatever design you want to paint. They have predrawn canvases available, Or you can schedule a class. They have an open paint bar.*Clay--They have all kinds of tools to work with clay for hand-building. They also offer Pottery Wheel sessions.*Glass fusing art--They have a wonderful assortment of colors and types of glass to make a completed glass fused project. *Mosaics--they have a pretty good selection of tile and colors and wood shapes to complete a project.The best part about POTTS N PAINTS is that you have endless options of things to choose from. One person can choose glass fusing art and another person can choose to paint a ceramic plate . You are not stuck making all the same thing. Like I said you have endless options. This is my new favorite place to hang out. Don't worry about getting messy. They have a wall of aprons to cover up your clothes. You can bring any drinks that you want even alcoholic drinks. For my husband I took him a beer because it was his birthday. And everyone needs a birthday beer(LOL) We opted to just walk in and make different projects but you can book parties and join classes. If you have questions like I did you can call or just walk in and find out how it all works. I'm totally in love with this place not only for all the super cool projects but because of the amazingly friendly and helpful staff. And they were playing really good music too.

A birthday celebration for a friend and this was a lovely activity. We did call to make reservations but it's wasn't too packed for a Saturday. About 6 tables or 4 and everyone is just focused on their work. I loved how it was a relaxed environment that we could still work but also chat. You are allowed to bring your own drinks as long as you are contained to your own table. Once we all got there, the employees gave us the rundown and not are there a lot of options! It was hard to choose because they had a lot of decorative and functional pieces. I opted for a personal snack bowl. Many many paints but I will say the pieces and paints are very well organized. Can't wait to update with my finished product!

I used to work at a pottery painting place, and I know items are marked up a fair amount. That being said, this store's prices were appalling. There was next to nothing to paint for under $25. I paid for my daughter to paint a $28 6" cat piggy bank (same one we sold at my old job for $12) and I chose a wooden mermaid to paint for myself. I paid $24 for a 12" wooden mermaid. Well, imagine my surprise when I went to Dollar Tree yesterday and say THE EXACT SAME MERMAID!! Shame on you, Potts N Paints. You took a $1.25 item and marked it up nearly 2000% to make a nice profit for yourself. I will never be back to this store. To say it was a rip off is an understatement.