So the below plate was a bit of a trainwreck so I think Jaime’s going to end up doing it over. When she was taking care of the front a lot of glaze on the back was rubbed off. She went in and trying to cover it back up but the glaze was just not...
this may be more accurately named “Glaze Fire 10.2” but whatever! We made a bit of a rush to get the kiln running again since there were issues with the last firing and Caitlin would be heading home the day after… This firing was mostly fixes and a couple things to pad it out a...
Stage 1 of this firing (one element on, the lid slightly open) went for 1 hour this time instead of the 30 minutes. Some of the items that went into this one still showed some signs of dampness so we wanted to make sure it was thoroughly dried out before getting properly hot. Weirdly this...
This firing we changed things up a little. I’ve been wanting to try firing a little longer to see if we could minimize the bubbling and cloudiness with the glazes so we’ve gone with a new firing protocol. It hasn’t been named yet. This one contained your standard mugs, a few store bought things that...
The most christmassy of the glaze firings! This one contains a little bit of everything… Reglazed item, new mugs & such, a batch of christmas ornaments painted by Rising Waters folk at a workshop, and pendants destined for the Largess Derby at Baronial Birthday Bash tomorrow. I’ll post pictures of the finished ornaments later as...
In this firing: Jen’s tester tiles and the new award plates. Added a little bit of candling time at the beginning because the plates were only clear glazed earlier today. The picture on this one are gonna be a little sparse. The plates I don’t want to put on the site yet cause they haven’t...
This fire had a couple interesting things in it. 1. We bought a ceramic mug from the dollar store and the Husmonkey painted a design on it.. mostly wanted to see what it do. the results ended up great! Some of the older ceramics have been damaged.. handles fell off or just got chipped, so...
Stuff is out of the kiln and everybody seems pleased with their work 🙂 /edit It’s firing right now so no pictures just yet! Though you may have a preview with a pic of something that is baking right...
Finally the weather has cooled down enough for us to start firing things again.. Yay! This run was a relatively small one. We have a house guest who brought a large bowl to be re-fired, and this took up a lot of the space in the kiln, which was actually ok because we hadn’t had...
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