Post #654279 by danlovestikis on Wed, Oct 3, 2012 12:42 PM

This is a week full of chores and tiki baking. I have crawl mugs in the oven with tigertail7777's necklace. I plan to start shipping some finished things soon. I'm collecting addresses. Hale Tiki this means you!

littlegiles I enjoyed reading about your messed up doll and that it could be fixed. I love tiger's necklace too.
LoriLovesTiki I try to share all I can. It would be wonderful to never make mistakes but if mine can stop others then terrific.
Professor G I was all set to paint the eyes dark blue to match and what happens the blue faded. However I love this mug and I'll let it go on to someone else who will too. Right now I'm out of ideas for the color scheme for you but that could change in the future and I'll let you know.
Beachbumz thank you but I just hate little errors. They bug me. The War God Lava glaze was not supposed to run but it won the Olympics.
tigertail7777 lids are the hardest part of ceramics. Hale Tiki mentioned an insert. The problem is that guessing how much the clay will shrink or the space glaze will occupy is not an exact science.
Hale Tiki that was a good suggestion. Horrors I hate lids!!!
VampiressRN thank you I like that look too. The crawl is almost here and we are excited.
hang10tiki that drill was too close but it made an exciting photo and that's what we like to share.

Thank you all for the wonderful messages. Wendy

Progress Report:

I keep refering to my orders binder for Wish List #3. I counted 12 custom Bob's and 2 bowls that I needed to start. So we got the molds back out. I had forgotten where all the leaks were located and the felt pen arrows were hidden by dried on clay. So....


We poured the sea life creature mold for the very first time.

It sat for 1 hour and then was emptied. This is the test to see if they come out of the mold and retain their detail. We'll see tomorrow if I have puffers and turtles.

I need to fire a bisque load with Beachbumz Moai Bowl so I started carving the dried out tikis that I did ahead. Here are four small Tiki Bob statues that are super carved.

I carried on the design to the top of the Bob's.

Next up I carved the PacMan Bob for Atomic Chick. SM Bacon designed it for her and sent me a full size map. It's not perfect but I did the best I could do. It's also ready to bisque. I have the bottom shelf loaded now and need to make enough for the top shelf.

Here are the step by steps. It took four hours which was far faster than the first one I made.

Eleven to go. I love making Bob's and every thing else too. But not lids! Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-10-03 13:03 ]