Post #797135 by danlovestikis on Fri, Aug 30, 2019 9:23 AM

Philot Scrabble has such long hair that we were vacuuming the carpet and chair after each visit. Dan is very happy she doesn't get into the house any longer. I only had a couple of floating hairs come near my work. It's dust that is such a huge problem. Dust comes from the ceramics itself so if I don't get the piece scrubbed and rinsed and well protected until I get it glazed there's going to be skips.

It just so happens that's what I posting today.

If you feed them they will come!

HopeChest this morning she left her owner to run over to us. Oh the power of Temptations!!!

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Progress Report on Wish List #8 Phase Four.

A load was fired. Some items shipped and some has skips. So when I re-glaze for the skips I also go over the rest of the piece to see if more glaze will improve it. Here's what I did.

On the Tiki Bar Dream mug I purposely didn't put on the background glaze thick because I didn't want it to move onto all the parts. So now I know how much more I can add when I fill in the skips.

This area on the Harvey's salt and peppers was hard to scrubb. I will now do it with a stiff paint brush and glaze again.

Eric Allred's War God Island had lava glaze where the burning sugar cube will go. Well it skipped and needs more lava.

So then I decided to touch up the outside too.

hang10tikis Easter Island mug had these skips to fix. So

I just added a bit more green glaze too.

This green glaze for the Harvey's shakers wasn't thick enough with three layers.

So I added one more. This is my favorite glaze for these shakers.

Tropical Night Tiki Bob needed a lot of touch up.

The mermaid for Anton Crone needed a lot of touch up too.

This is why ceramics at least for me take a long time. But once I get them all done and I'm satisfied with my work
I end up with satisfied customers/friends/collectors too.

These will all fire again and then it will be shipping time. Cheers, Wendy