Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Thu, Apr 5, 2012 9:13 AM LorieLovesTiki notes like yours makes the time I spend here worthwhile, thank you. It would be wonderful to have you here but in the meantime you should go to the Events section on Tiki Central. There are events at Lake George in New York and at the Mai Kai (Hukilau) in Florida. You should hook up with people in your area. Just go on General Tiki or Events and ask for people in your area to send you a Personal Message via Tiki Central. We have done this and as new people move to our area they add in. We all get together once a month and sometimes more. I've never met a better group of people than I've met through tiki. Best Wishes for some hook ups for you and your husband. zerotiki I love owning your Mystery Girl print and knowing you have the mug. Both are in homes that will take care of them. Thank you for letting me know. ZeroTiki I was a pre-med major in college so I'm living my dream! The Blue Kahuna thank you for your PM you are such a dear man. Visit often. We are all about to go through MadDogMike withdrawal while he's away. Let's load his thread with notes to get back to work! The Blue Kahuna picks up his mug. (o: One less to ship and we had a fun visit and of course lots of hugs. After spraying the mugs there is a lot of glaze on the bottom rim that must be removed. I get a bucket of water that I can rinse my sponge in and rub this off. It spreads around. I could work to take it all off but I like that it ages the bottom. But I'm not done yet. I then use glaze to paint the indented bottom. I kept going until I finished all 30 mugs and a few of the tests that I'm still playing with. Because I kept the glaze pretty close to the bottom edge I fire with each mug on a stilt so that if the glaze runs it will not fuse it to the shelf. When I load I don't put ceramics under the thermal couple because it sometimes spits off a piece of metal. Also below are my cones that will let me know if these fired at the right temperature. These mugs are so tall that I could only put half of them into the kiln. Since I've finished all the Bobs I didn't have anything for a short top shelf. By Sunday I should be ready to fire the rest of them. Thank you for your visit. Cheers, Wendy

LorieLovesTiki notes like yours makes the time I spend here worthwhile, thank you. It would be wonderful to have you here but in the meantime you should go to the Events section on Tiki Central. There are events at Lake George in New York and at the Mai Kai (Hukilau) in Florida. You should hook up with people in your area. Just go on General Tiki or Events and ask for people in your area to send you a Personal Message via Tiki Central. We have done this and as new people move to our area they add in. We all get together once a month and sometimes more. I've never met a better group of people than I've met through tiki. Best Wishes for some hook ups for you and your husband.

zerotiki I love owning your Mystery Girl print and knowing you have the mug. Both are in homes that will take care of them. Thank you for letting me know.

ZeroTiki I was a pre-med major in college so I'm living my dream!

The Blue Kahuna thank you for your PM you are such a dear man. Visit often.

We are all about to go through MadDogMike withdrawal while he's away. Let's load his thread with notes to get back to work!

The Blue Kahuna picks up his mug. (o: One less to ship and we had a fun visit and of course lots of hugs.

After spraying the mugs there is a lot of glaze on the bottom rim that must be removed.

I get a bucket of water that I can rinse my sponge in and rub this off.

It spreads around. I could work to take it all off but I like that it ages the bottom. But I'm not done yet.

I then use glaze to paint the indented bottom.

I kept going until I finished all 30 mugs and a few of the tests that I'm still playing with.

Because I kept the glaze pretty close to the bottom edge I fire with each mug on a stilt so that if the glaze runs it will not fuse it to the shelf.

When I load I don't put ceramics under the thermal couple because it sometimes spits off a piece of metal. Also below are my cones that will let me know if these fired at the right temperature.

These mugs are so tall that I could only put half of them into the kiln. Since I've finished all the Bobs I didn't have anything for a short top shelf. By Sunday I should be ready to fire the rest of them.

Thank you for your visit. Cheers, Wendy

Post #631376 by danlovestikis on Thu, Apr 5, 2012 9:13 AM