

Rainy Day
Two decades of rainy afternoons turned into fridge art in West Van: paint pottery, fuse glass, or grab a sip-and-paint.
Bella Ceramica on Dundarave's Marine Drive has been turning rainy North Shore afternoons into fridge-worthy art for two decades, and the secret is the options. Paint pottery, fuse glass, or splash a canvas. If your brush hand needs steadying, there's a sip-and-paint for that. No appointment, no experience required, and nobody gives you a look when your pottery glazing turns out more ambitious kindergartner than local artist. Pick a different craft each and trade critiques when you're done. The pieces need about five days to fire, so you get to look forward to picking them up, which extends the date by approximately one happy week. Show up, point at a thing, make that thing, and outwait the North Shore weather in style.