all wrapped up

Well finally all fired now there was one straggler in the set finally fired and all pieces are wrapped up and ready to go to fremantle to a rather nice looking bistro-foodstore-gifts george street

fresh

Just unloaded from the kiln today some more experimental pieces they've been sitting for a while while I decided how to decorate them. I used  an old pink stained glaze for decoration and was really looking for glaze fill in the scored detailing. Plus a new breaky bowl to munch from while checking everyones blogs...and one more blue crackle platter.

 

provence in fremantle

Just before I send this order away I thought I'd better grab some images. I made 12 of each - beakers, small and medium size bowl for a shop in fremantle it will be nice to hear how they go out west. Oh and the mighty "mud" who so wanted to get in on the pics.

roll on fibre

It's been a very prickly day putting in the fibre and nearly done we ran out of zircon fibre needed to complete the inner layer, I'll order some this week so maybe next weekend it will be finished.

I had a super team effort on today with kevin, jill and pam helping out with the kiln. I did a couple of try out videos on my phone but the quality's a bit rough and that's jill chatting on her phone , anywho you still get the idea...thanks all..

Doug just so you can see the buttons that hold the fibre in kevin is holding them, they have a loop on the back for the nichrome wire to go through. This get poked through the fibre and through a space between the bricks quite often the join and sometimes if I'm lucky there's a previous hole drilled through the brick, the wire is the secured carefully on to the wire frame, i say carefully cause i can't count how many times ive broken the button by pulling too tightly on the wire.

We have 4 layers of standard fibre and one layer of zircon on the door, 1 layer of each inside the kiln.

play day

hey doug! a few snapshots from today so you know the face behind the 'voice' but just to make it fun i've included all my buddies from wednesday group, well the ones that were there, missing anna, rae, belinda, linda..