Post #776380 by danlovestikis on Sun, May 28, 2017 8:12 AM

hang10tiki AHHHHHHHHHHHH

bamalamalu we had a wonderfully perfect day and when it ended I started glazing the Wish List! Thank you.

hang10tiki you are such a cute cartoon.

TikiAno it couldn't have been better.

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Here's our 39th wedding anniversary photos.

First we went to a flea market that we haunted when we first got married. In later years it started just selling new things. Today I got to cross an item off my have to have list. I found a real boat steering wheel for $20. Mint condition.

Then right next door to our favorite pizza place Roma's. Owned by an Italian family. I should have taken the photos before I covered the pizzas with parmesan and salad dressing. I hid from view all the goodies. Yes we brought most of it home.

At stop lights I prevent boredom by reading license plates. I finally on this day found one with my old initials. I used to be Wendy Eve Dawson.

At home we exchanged gifts. Dan got his SHAG book and

I got an Egyptian cat that I had forgotten about. Ever since Dan bought me a bust developer machine for Xmas I pick out my own presents during the year. I forget about what I found and then I do get surprises.

From EBay I found these shakers. We hope they are vintage. The stoppers look old.

Then Dan really did surprise me with another mid-century cat in a size I hadn't seen before. It made my day. Two cats one for our Egyptian bedroom and one for downstairs.

We also exchanged love letters. We have a real love match. Thank you all for sharing the day with us.

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Back now to Wish List #7. I still have a few more things to show that were made a while back and are still drying.

Getting back to the lids for the Maori lamps. I decided that the first cast had cracked because I left it in the mold overnight which is a form of drying. So the next four I cast I removed from the mold within 3 hours of casting.

It worked. I was later able to carve them and then to bisque fire them without any cracking. Yippy!!! Now I have more lids than lamps cast.

Dan works for tikis. I have to make things he requests so that he'll continue to be my heavy lifter. So right at the end of casting he requested a mermaid bowl after seeing the one I made for Nelson Osorio.

I cast the large bowl.

Then I cast four of my Bumatay fish. I like how some molds look 3D when photographed.

I thought that a mermaid should have fish surrounding her.

Once she was done, Dan didn't want scales on her tail I

attached her to the bowl along with four Bumatay fish.

After a couple of days of slowly drying it was time to fine tune the fish with more detail.

Dan wanted a ring of tapa carved around the sides.

All done and ready to continue drying.

Thank you all again for your visits and comments. You all bring such happiness into my life. Wendy