Really exciting: I had a frit painting work commissioned the other day, from a woman who had bought something off me through Etsy and had seen one of my bowl there. I have done a couple of plates and a small bowl in a Japanese-inspired cherry blossom design, and now I need to make a [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Frit painting – a commission!
Posted in Warm glass, tagged Bullseye glass, cherry blossom, compatibility, Etsy, firing schedule, float glass, frit, frit painting, glass on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dog bowl/cat bowl
Posted in Warm glass, tagged Bullseye glass, dog bowl, Etsy, frit painting, glass, striker on September 26, 2008 |
The bottom shelf is still cracked, but I figured I could get away with using it, once I took it off the little posts and made sure it looked more or less level. I absolutely had to get last night’s disc slumped immediately. I’m too tickled by it. This features another of the new molds [...]
Kelvin! What were you doing last night?
Posted in Warm glass, tagged slumping mold on September 25, 2008 |
Eek. I woke up this morning, went to peek in the kiln, and this is what I saw: I had my new, efficient arrangement: mold on the bottom, then two additional shelves, one with a smaller slumping mold on it, and a disc to fire on the top one. The molds were both fine, thank [...]
Coarse clear for repairs
Posted in Warm glass, tagged Bullseye glass, firing schedule, frit, glass, thickness on September 24, 2008 |
I did a really stupid thing last week. I was cutting a 12″ disc using my new second-hand-from-eBay Silberschnitt circle cutter when a slight crack appeared running in from one edge. At the time I was pretty pleased with myself for getting the disc out neatly without it breaking across at the crack. I thought [...]
New molds!
Posted in Warm glass, tagged bisque, slumping mold on September 24, 2008 |
I finally went mad and bought some molds. Proper glass molds, from Bullseye, rather than the unglazed bisque from the ceramic cafe supplier I usually get. I have mixed success with the bisque: firstly holes have to be drilled into it and I’m ashamed to admit I’m so pathetically terrified of the drill that I [...]
Meet Kelvin (in Fahrenheit)
Posted in Warm glass, tagged centigrade, fahrenheit, kelvin, kiln on September 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This should really be the first post, but that only occurred to me yesterday. Kelvin is a two-year-old (possibly three-year-old) Paragon Fusion Eight kiln. He came to me from a woman in Yorkshire who had decided that lampworking was her true love and that Kelvin needed more space as well since she’d moved to a [...]
Starting out right
Posted in Warm glass, tagged glass, heart, jewelry, pendant on September 5, 2008 |
I went to a wedding on Monday and picked up a commission. I was actually a bit irritated at having to be at the wedding at all. Bad enough that somebody had had the silly idea to get married on a wet afternoon at the beginning of what’s shaping up to be a very squally [...]
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