Post #785912 by danlovestikis on Wed, Apr 11, 2018 9:36 AM

hang10tiki you did an accurate description of our days!

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In addition to our garage sale there is clay work to be done each day. Here's what we have been up to.

There are more volcano crawl mugs and then all the Bumatay Mermaid bowls.

Since the volcanos are thicker I decided to do the bowls so that the heat of firing will further insure the volcanos are dry.

I had to wait until the bowl was dry before I could flip it over to clean up the fish attachments. I want to carve down the lumps of clay.

HORRORS! it didn't go well. One of the fish just popped loose, flew through the air and broke into pieces.

I can't fix the fish so I smoothed the area he came from and added the name of a new bar.

Close up.

Then I sent the bowl to Dan for dusting. I heard an, "OH NO", it happened again a fish came loose.

He didn't touch it. I must have loosened it when I was carving down the clay lumps.

This fish was opposite the other one that fell off. So I added these words.

At least the fish were in good places.

I did more sanding, Dan dusted and then to the kiln room for the day it will fire.

This bowl was or is for Karen Nichols. I will now inform her of what has happened. Only 6 more bowls to go. Clay is fragile
so many steps can go wrong, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2018-04-11 09:37 ]