Post #658815 by danlovestikis on Thu, Nov 15, 2012 9:31 AM

Thank you hang10tiki and tigertail777.

Hi Friends, its been really a bad time to be slowed down by a faulty kiln however the timing was also lucky. Between yesterday and the end of the year the Scutt repairman was scheduled to come to my area 1 day. Guess what that day is today and he had one opening at noon! He's going to replace computer relay switches and I'll be good to go with firing the same load that sat in the heat of 1400 degrees for 30 hours. They said it shouldn't have effected the ceramics. So tonight they'll be firing again. 1400 degrees was not hot enough to melt the glaze.

Yesterday Christmas came early. 19TikiChef62 sent us a gift of his handmade soaps, body wash and crystals. He even sent sponges! We are going to have fun being clean. I just want to share photos of what he has to offer.

There are tikis and angles, Santa's and fruits, bath salts you name it he makes it.

Close up of some tiki soaps.

I just noticed his card has batchelorette party XXX supplies. Might look like some tiki parts I've seen from Cook Island.

Thank you so much John you made my day.

Progress for the Don the Beachcomber's sale Dec. 2nd.

Even though my kiln is down I continue to glaze my projects.

A Bumatay with a coconut tree bowl.

Drooling just seems so tiki that I run glaze inside the bowl.

A long time ago I had a Frankoma War God not empty. I dug out the wet clay and spread the head and attached it to a mug.

It will be red inside and brown with red spots on the outside.

Now I'm having fun making color choices for THE KINGS GOBLET's.
#1

#2

#3 after glazing I scrapped off the glaze on the flowers

Then I used a wet paper towel to rub off more.

Finished.

Today I'll be working clay and glazing while I wait for the kiln repair man to arrive. Fingers crossed that it will end well.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2012-11-15 09:34 ]