Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9082	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Fri, Aug 21, 2015 4:15 PM kingstiedye it's a wonderful bowl. Come on over any time. IDoVoodoo I have to get the space ship back from Mahalo Tiki. It didn't sell at Oasis. I sure got a lot of compliments so it was worth taking it. I have one person in Australia who wanted this one. I'll let you know how that turns out kingstiedye say what??? =========================== I just noticed that I have 450 pages on this thread now. That's a whole book. Thank you all for your comments and 2 million plus views. My best friend said not to get excited it's probably only 10 people who look over and over again. Works for me! =========================== Time to do some catch up posting since we are home from Tiki Oasis 15. I have been firing the Sacramento Crawl mugs. Opening the kiln on each batch is really fun and scary too. At long last all 60 are in the house and ready for inspection and numbering. I then pair the mug with the box and signature card. We love our cat but she tears furniture to pieces so we always keep it covered unless we have company. Out of the 60 I found 16 with tiny glaze skips or thin areas that needed to be worked on. The worst were two mugs that looked like the bird pooped on the sign on the back of the mug. See the center mug on the bottom. Crystal glazes which I used inside the mugs can spit during firing. That's what happened to some of the mugs. I'm not sure that can be fixed. I took each mug and went over them and re-glazed any areas that could be improved. I got carried away! I then dried them in the wind and loaded the kiln. At Psycho Tiki D's backyard tiki marketplace I bought a Crazy Al Mug that wasn't glazed with more than a pink underglaze on some ropes. Thank you Duane for letting me have it. He picked it up first. I have always liked this mug and now I had the opportunity to play with one. It has a lot of detail. Those he painted in multiple colors are beautiful. I went to the shed and picked out all the colors I wanted to use for the mug and went to work painting it. Hours passed. More hours passed. I had to turn it upside down to prevent missing parts. It took more than four hours. Crazy Al even did more than I did by painting the designs in the tapa. Into the kiln. I'm looking forward to seeing it the glaze stuck or sloughed off. I'm only guessing this will work. Thank you for all the joy this posting brings. I have so much fun being here and interacting with you all. Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2015-08-21 16:55 ]

kingstiedye it's a wonderful bowl. Come on over any time.

IDoVoodoo I have to get the space ship back from Mahalo Tiki. It didn't sell at Oasis. I sure got a lot of compliments so it was worth taking it. I have one person in Australia who wanted this one. I'll let you know how that turns out

kingstiedye say what???

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I just noticed that I have 450 pages on this thread now. That's a whole book. Thank you all for your comments and 2 million plus views. My best friend said not to get excited it's probably only 10 people who look over and over again. Works for me!

===========================

Time to do some catch up posting since we are home from Tiki Oasis 15.

I have been firing the Sacramento Crawl mugs.

Opening the kiln on each batch is really fun and scary too.

At long last all 60 are in the house and ready for inspection and numbering.

I then pair the mug with the box and signature card. We love our cat but she tears furniture to pieces so we always keep it covered unless we have company.

Out of the 60 I found 16 with tiny glaze skips or thin areas that needed to be worked on. The worst were two mugs that looked like the bird pooped on the sign on the back of the mug. See the center mug on the bottom. Crystal glazes which I used inside the mugs can spit during firing. That's what happened to some of the mugs. I'm not sure that can be fixed.

I took each mug and went over them and re-glazed any areas that could be improved.

I got carried away!

I then dried them in the wind and

loaded the kiln.

At Psycho Tiki D's backyard tiki marketplace I bought a Crazy Al Mug that wasn't glazed with more than a pink underglaze on some ropes. Thank you Duane for letting me have it. He picked it up first.