Today we went to Alpha Fired Arts and spent my Wish List money on new glazes and replacement glazes for those I'd used up. This is Brian the owner.

New glazes need those tests done.

Finished and waiting to fire.

The next story will tell why I needed to go to Alpha today.

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I have a whole lot of catching up to do. Here goes. I'm starting with the long story of Jen Tiki's tiki mug #8.

My idea of a dark Caribbean blue was based on what glazes I had on hand. When it came out of the kiln it needed more glaze to be applied. It was then that Jen Tiki said the color I had in mind is darker like the Tiki News Magazine's tiki.
Dan had one in his collection.

I took it to my kiln shed and looked at all the glaze strips that were on the wall.

I found the color in one small jar of underglaze.

I started out by adding more of the lime green color.

Next I added more of the new darker glaze over the lighter glaze and

hoped that it would work.

I still have lots to learn about glazing.

This was the first time I've put underglaze over regular glaze.

All done with one coat.

When that coat dried I added another.

Putting glaze on when the carving is deep makes it easy to miss a spot so I also do it upside down.

IT just takes patience to get it right

and I'm willing to try and try again.

Now the two layers of clear glaze have been put on and this mug was fired in the kiln.

When it came out it had a lot of areas with spots of the lighter glaze showing through. Bummer. But today I went to Alpha and found the best dark Caribbean glaze they had.

I covered the mug with this glaze.

It doesn't require the clear coat. I think it is what was actually used for the Moai mug. It has two layers and is waiting for the next kiln firing.

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Now I'm going to hop around a bit.

I had many of the Tiki Bobs with tiny amounts of color bleeding into the white around the edges. I didn't know if I could fix these but I wanted to try.

I covered all the unwanted color with white underglaze, several coats.

LoriLovesTiki's mug had it by far the worst.

So I actually used more of a different Royal Blue glaze to cover it over.

Then to make sure it all looked the same

I gave the whole mug more coats.

I did this to Vance's mug and

to johnnyvelvet's mug and

Kenneth G. McNeils mug.

Then I coated it all with clear glaze and let them dry.

My photos are out of order. This is also one for Kenneth.

I also did Wood Tiki's mug and

Then I did this one for hang10tiki and

this one for him too.

Next I did some touch ups on IDoVooDoo's bowl.

Now I'm going way back. This little guy for Professor G was supposed to be blue. So I added some and re-glazed him.

He's all done.

I did find out that if you mix brown and blue glaze it comes out black. So the rims didn't do what I'd hoped.

Professor G's two fogcutter mugs need a third firing with a different type of glaze. I'm covering an IN glaze

with a same color CN glaze.

The next bunch of photos are of the three part Space Ship for Tiki Oasis 15. As MadDogMike suggested I do plan to fire them a second time with them all together to fuse into one piece. But first I want to make sure all the pieces are glazed just right. As I've shown above there can be problems.

Loading the kiln.

Bottom shelf.

Yesterday Dan shipped mugs to Kenneth G. McNeil, hang19tiki, Professor G and johnnyvelvet. I'll show their finished mugs tomorrow if I can find the time.

This mug for Wood Tiki and the next mug

for Vance were fine except that they needed a bit more gloss. So I used a CN white this time.

Out of the kiln the mug for Kenneth G. McNeil had a major runny nose.

So he's getting a complete makeover. I will have to re-carve a similar mug for Mr. McNeil. I started by re-glazing the inside of the mug to a speckled blue.

Then I did two layers of the same Royal blue on the mugs for Professor G. His came out just fine and so I know the CN glaze will cover over IN glazes.

I call this mug Phantom of the Oprah Bob.

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So as you can tell from some of the photos the kiln has been opened and I have more to show. Today Dan and I worked on the projects that needed touchups and also on the Hula Girl Hot Tubs. I'm trying to get a load done so I can fire again. So lots of work in progress and lots more to show.

This took two hours to put together and I'm beat and heading to bed. I hope you'll reward me with a few comments.

Cheers, Wendy the sleepy head.