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 Sat, Sep 29, 2012 6:32 AM I sure do love getting up in the morning and reading all your posts. The voting has closed and I'm thrilled to not paint these. I think the vote proved that this was the right way to go. Now I'll make the signature cards and box them up. THANK YOU! Tikilongbeach I'll be in Long Beach for the December sale at DTB's. I'll bring any left over to the event. AtomicTikiPunk I wish I were young enough to get carded, even for voting. 19tikichef62 I'll be having more time to work on the Wish List. Your Bob is the challenge I'm looking forward too. McTiki its always good to have you pop in here. Maybe I should mold this mug. MadDogMike I'm counting the days until your visit, hummm can I count that high? I'll use the fingers on each of my three hands. dartharnie I love the Eternal Tug of War. I thought about a Tiki Farm Ring and scary fingernails when I made it. I think you are on the right track for this mug. Progress Report: I opened the kiln and success! Marone Tikis bowl came out beautifully. The back and red usually pull apart. There were only a couple of these areas. I repaired them with black and gray enamel and I'll bake it in the home oven for 45 min.'s to set and then its good to go. I'm sorry for the blurry photos. Aged for Alii Tiki and an Orange/Red for Hale Tiki Red with black specks for Alii Tiki and another one for hiltiki or do you like the red/orange better? Brown with green highlights. The only super carved super tall Bob I've made so far. The Bumatay bowl I've made for Dan so he'll keep working with me. The glaze was a bit too thick and ran to the bottom. Dan liked the effect so yippee. The Eric October bowl has more problems. Two areas of glaze popped off. This bowl is cursed. Dan will take a wire brush to it and I'll glaze again. There is always hope until a hairline shows up. When that happens I quit. All the items out of the kiln need to have their bottoms sanded. Then they are finished. Thanks for stopping by. Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-09-29 07:04 ]

I sure do love getting up in the morning and reading all your posts. The voting has closed and I'm thrilled to not paint these. I think the vote proved that this was the right way to go. Now I'll make the signature cards and box them up. THANK YOU!

Tikilongbeach I'll be in Long Beach for the December sale at DTB's. I'll bring any left over to the event.
AtomicTikiPunk I wish I were young enough to get carded, even for voting.
19tikichef62 I'll be having more time to work on the Wish List. Your Bob is the challenge I'm looking forward too.
McTiki its always good to have you pop in here. Maybe I should mold this mug.
MadDogMike I'm counting the days until your visit, hummm can I count that high? I'll use the fingers on each of my three hands.
dartharnie I love the Eternal Tug of War. I thought about a Tiki Farm Ring and scary fingernails when I made it. I think you are on the right track for this mug.

Progress Report:

I opened the kiln and success!

Marone Tikis bowl came out beautifully. The back and red usually pull apart. There were only a couple of these areas.

I repaired them with black and gray enamel and I'll bake it in the home oven for 45 min.'s to set and then its good to go.

I'm sorry for the blurry photos.

Aged for Alii Tiki and an Orange/Red for Hale Tiki

Red with black specks for Alii Tiki and another one for hiltiki or do you like the red/orange better?

Brown with green highlights.

The only super carved super tall Bob I've made so far.

The Bumatay bowl I've made for Dan so he'll keep working with me.

The glaze was a bit too thick and ran to the bottom. Dan liked the effect so yippee.

The Eric October bowl has more problems. Two areas of glaze popped off. This bowl is cursed. Dan will take a wire brush to it and I'll glaze again. There is always hope until a hairline shows up. When that happens I quit.

All the items out of the kiln need to have their bottoms sanded. Then they are finished.

Thanks for stopping by. Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-09-29 07:04 ]

Post #653783 by danlovestikis on Sat, Sep 29, 2012 6:32 AM