Post #691746 by danlovestikis on Wed, Aug 28, 2013 10:01 AM

lunavideogames good for you getting through. I had that problem with getting a room for Oasis. The trick there turned out to be to refresh the page. I learned it too late to get the room I wanted.

I want to share a couple of home projects with you today.

I recently noticed that Dan's collection of usable tiki mugs and glasses in the kitchen were causing the shelves to sag.
He cut some pieces of wood and hid them behind the front piece of wood.

Hopefully the shelves can't collapse now.

Hobby Lobby opened in our town so we went there to spend our 40% off coupon (that's how Dan built his jungle room, one coupon at a time)and we found a Hawaiian section. Dan's not quiet, Dan's lots of fun.

I always have tiki projects on our dining room table. I use the MadDogMike photo studio there and I line up projects and things to ship. So one morning I told Dan that I was going to give away all of my parents china and crystal to my great-niece Michelle. I told him if he would pack it up he could have all the shelves
for his tiki collection.

He jumped on the offer and packed it all up. He had no problem filling them up.

When he needs more wall space I'll take down my paintings and let him use the wall too.

At Tiki Oasis Dan bought bowls from Bowana. One of them had a crack inside the bowl. Bowana discounted it because of the crack. I asked Dan if he would agree to risk a repair on the bowl. He said yes.

I couldn't tell if the crack was in the glaze or in the glaze and into the bisque. If it was in the bisque then this wouldn't work. I wanted to add glaze and do the firing and cooling very slowly to see if it would repair.

I picked a complimentary glaze and painted one layer. I didn't know how many layers were present and glaze that is too thick can crack.

This glaze dries a pretty pink.

After firing with a 10 hour preheat and a 12.5 hour ramp and cooling over night until it was down to 130 degrees we found a beautiful solid bowl.

I had Dan wrap it in towels so that it would cool slowly down to room temperature. He put the wrapped bowl in our 80 degree garage.

The next day when he unwrapped it we found the crack had reformed and

was now visible on the bottom. So now I think that the crack was into the bisque also.

We gambled and we lost. Dan likes this bowl so much that he is still displaying it in his collection.

Roge is back to work on resin projects. He just made some sun-catchers. I'm going to post them now on Marketplace.

Cheers, Wendy