D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Sat, Feb 22, 2014 8:34 PM hang10tiki wow, that's a great one. Dan said it is suitable for framing. I would if it had a tiki in the picture. Thank you. Matt Reese thank you I guess I'll have to carve a few more. kingstiedye ours too. We saw your number flashing on our machine today, you should have left us a message. ============================================================== I've decided on a theme for our newest tiki room. I want it to be the Sacramento Crawl room. So Dan hung the first couple of framed pictures that I used to make the crawl mug for 2012 and for this years. Today I printed out photos from the other three years and I'm framing them for him to hang. I buy cheap frames at the Cancer Society store so they don't always fit. I've found that if a white edge needs to be covered up felt pens work really well. I layer colors to help them match. First orange then brown. Not too bad. Dan will hang this one soon. ==================================================== Remember The Wizard of OZ and how the wicked witch melted. I've often thought of that scene when I would tell people that mugs that are not fired would melt if they got wet. All they are is dried clay. I have a photo of my Zombie Torch mugs from Monday and they are all fine. Now on Saturday I found that water had poured into one of my trays and had melted two of my mugs. Neither Dan or I saw this happen. We had a workman in the house and a bottle of water was left on our table next to this tray so I am guessing he spilled some and didn't say anything. But I'll never know for sure. Now to complete my run of 20 mugs I'd have to do these over again. I may not do that for 6 months. At least now I have an example of how cast mugs will melt when water is added. As the bottom became soft the weight of the mug crushed it. The molds we made a week ago have had a fan blowing on them 24 hours a day. They still felt as wet as the day we made them. So yesterday we moved them outside and put two fans on them. I hope that since we are in a drought that they will dry faster outside. =================================================== Well that's it for tonight. I did work clay but I need to relax now. I hope you are all having a fun evening. Wendy

hang10tiki wow, that's a great one. Dan said it is suitable for framing. I would if it had a tiki in the picture. Thank you.

Matt Reese thank you I guess I'll have to carve a few more.

kingstiedye ours too. We saw your number flashing on our machine today, you should have left us a message.

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I've decided on a theme for our newest tiki room. I want it to be the Sacramento Crawl room. So Dan hung the first couple of framed pictures that I used to make the crawl mug for 2012 and for this years.

Today I printed out photos from the other three years and I'm framing them for him to hang.

I buy cheap frames at the Cancer Society store so they don't always fit. I've found that if a white edge needs to be covered up felt pens work really well. I layer colors to help them match. First orange then brown.

Not too bad. Dan will hang this one soon.

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Remember The Wizard of OZ and how the wicked witch melted. I've often thought of that scene when I would tell people that mugs that are not fired would melt if they got wet. All they are is dried clay.

I have a photo of my Zombie Torch mugs from Monday and they are all fine. Now on Saturday I found that water had poured into one of my trays and had melted two of my mugs.

Neither Dan or I saw this happen. We had a workman in the house and a bottle of water was left on our table next to this tray so I am guessing he spilled some and didn't say anything. But I'll never know for sure. Now to complete my run of 20 mugs I'd have to do these over again. I may not do that for 6 months.

At least now I have an example of how cast mugs will melt when water is added. As the bottom became soft the weight of the mug crushed it.

The molds we made a week ago have had a fan blowing on them 24 hours a day. They still felt as wet as the day we made them. So yesterday we moved them outside and put two fans on them. I hope that since we are in a drought that they will dry faster outside.

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Well that's it for tonight. I did work clay but I need to relax now. I hope you are all having a fun evening. Wendy

Post #709130 by danlovestikis on Sat, Feb 22, 2014 8:34 PM

At least now I have an example of how cast mugs will melt when water is added. As the bottom became soft the weight of the mug crushed it.