Post #785515 by danlovestikis on Fri, Mar 30, 2018 8:06 PM

Hamo been there done that. I'll miss seeing you.

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Wish List #8 the I Dream of Jeannie bottle requires step after step. If only I could rum this bottle and wish for it to be done.

To make the bottle stopper I got out the bottle itself. That was lucky for me because I saw a super tight hairline running 4 inches across the bottle. The clay is so thick that I was able to dig it out until there was not crack.

However as an extra precaution I took Magic Mend and rubbed in over the area where the crack was located. I hope this works.

Last night the bottle stopper looked like this and was soft. I left it out all night and

today it was very firm and dry.

I began to carve it to fit into the top of the bottle.

Getting there.

I checked out the photo again and found that when this

stopper shrinks it will pull back leaving a ledge that will suit the design just fine.

I can't leave this as a solid piece or for sure it will crack. I using the tool below I drilled though the center.

I carved the top to fit this small diamond.

The huge diamond will not go into the side of the stopper. So I not only carved the place to set the stone I'm using this as an entrance in which to dig out more clay to hollow the top.

Time to end my work day and rest. We pulled out another 50 mugs for the garage sale today. The purge is going well.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2018-03-31 09:31 ]