Post #788900 by TikiAno on Tue, Jul 31, 2018 2:07 PM

I'm good with adding more time.... but I'm done. Well, sorta.

The mug didn't crack, as I thought it might, but something odd happened in the glaze firing.

First, the weird mug- as a reminder, this is a brown/ black clay, with glaze on top...

Lid for da mug, with straw hole (I'll include some new fangled paper straws we just got in for my business):

Of course, the firing didn't go perfectly, and I had something happen that I didn't know could happen with clay- a piece that WAS attached (through the bisque firing) decided to pop off during the glaze firing (for those that don't do ceramics, first it goes into the kiln for a bisque firing, then again for a (in my case a higher temperature) another firing. I didn't know a piece can come apart after it's been bisqued, unless it cracks? Here's where one of the dream clouds was supposed to go:

And me holding up the missing piece:

My plan, if it's okay with everyone, is to super glue this on- it probably wouldn't be the best food safe thing to do, but it's on the outside of the mug. There is an unglazed area that was underneath this cloud.

Glad to (pretty much?) make it in by the buzzer- though I admit I've been MIA during the Swap due to kid/ work/ work/ work.