Post #782873 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jan 4, 2018 8:22 AM

During my time off I came up with an idea for a mug. I ended up with a coincidence which made it all the more fun.

I cleaned up a fogcutter mug to use.

I prepped a petroglyph turtle aka Honu.

I attached it to the mug with sticky clay (clay mixed with slip).

I decided that it would be a necklace so I made the chord. Once attached with sticky clay I then ran slip along the up side.

I flipped over the mug and ran the slip bottom side.

I smoothed it with my fingers and a brush.

Now I wanted to add the name of the fictional bar to the mug. Turtle House but written as Honu Hale.

This was done along the chord.

Then Dan comes down to see how the mug is going and says that's wrong. It needs to be Hale Honu just like how the name for the volcano in Maui is said. So I mushed out the names and did them again. I kept thinking but the volcano in Maui is one word isn't it?

The next day I did my super-carving step all over the mug.

Later that night I went through all my books waiting to be read. I selected a Michael Connelly book. The detective in the book said she could see the Maui volcano from her home as she grew up. Right before my eyes was the spelling for the volcano.

So much fun when this happens. I had 50 books to choose from and I picked this one! Cheers, Wendy