Post #684028 by danlovestikis on Sun, Jun 30, 2013 8:19 AM

hang10tiki I was watching the weather report for Las Vegas yesterday. I think I could come to your home and fire them in your backyard.

MadDogMike I fired in the night and it is still going. I hope it will turn off by the time it hits 90 here. Did you use a cone for the 015? You could almost put gold on your work. Those posts are heavy but at least I'm not stacking posts which is scary.

hang10tiki snow cone or Hawaiian Ice. I think I need one. There is a machine called a small Snowey that makes the ice but the machine is expensive. I saw it on Storage Wars. They appraised it at $1500 but I looked it up and it was $250. Can't trust those shows.

I decided that I would work in a sauna yesterday. I went out to the garage. First Dan and I put the crawl tiki molds together and put them in the mold storage. I'm running out of room.

We were at the Cancer Society shop and I saw this toy. I haven't done potters wheel since I was in college and I thought it would be fun to try.

I made a lump of air free clay and slammed it down on the platform.

It didn't stick and my pot got all messed up. I tried wet clay, dry clay, nothing would stick. The clay that comes with the wheel wasn't in the box so I couldn't try that. I cleaned it back up and I'll re-donate it to the shop.

Next it was time to carve the detail into these two bowls.

This big flat bowl will hold the volcano of Tiki Island.

Along with the tapa design I did Tiki Island twice.

Next I worked on the Hula Girl bowl. I just shredded the outside.

All done.

Today is a no clay day. I'm going to work on the painting for Tiki Oasis 13. This Hulabilly theme is hard but I'll try to make it work. Wish me luck, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-06-30 08:30 ]