Just a quickie!!

Happy Thursday everyone! I have had a full week of running around, a lustre firing, wrapping, packing and posting finished orders.... And with only two more sleeps have to organise the suitcase for our USA road trip... EEEKKKK!! So this is short and sweet this morning... I wanted to show you the results of the lustre firing, I use Duncans bright gold and fire to cone 019 or

 683 degrees celcius and I love the results! What do you think?

 

 

Anyway I must run, those suitcases will not pack themselves... If only it was a matter of just clicking our fingers!!

 

As this will be my last Blog for 2012 I do hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas with your loved ones and are kept safe and sound in this Festive Season... May good fortune be with you for the rest of 2012 and certainly for 2013! Wishing you all participating in markets lots and lots of sales!! And May God Bless you all...........

 

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Candle Holders,Tea Pots and Pendants...

 Christmas is coming fast and the last couple of weeks has been just a weeee bit hectic... Our interstate move, finding a new place to live, finding a new school and unpacking and then unpacking some more. It felt like it wasn't going to get done. I had a few orders to complete and my Mum, Dad and brother came for a 2week stay with us. Which was wonderful! So in between touring our new area here in the Adelaide Hills with my family I made a promise to myself to do a couple of things each day so that I kept my self on track.  So below are the pieces that were completed and in a green state, they have been bisque fired and are now in my little kiln awaiting for that switch to be flicked tomorrow morning for their glaze firing.... So my fingers, toes and everything else possible will be crossed for a successful glaze firing...

Below are my candle holders that have been incised and carved....

 These are my newly painted pendants. My Dad painted 3 double sided pendants with his landscapes, I just loved sitting with him and painting together...

 

I felt like a little bit of colour on my new Funky Tea Pot....
And I love it!!

Even it's bottom had a little bit of attention and detail added... :)

Something a little different with the lid....

And my nature inspired tea pot....

 

 

I have really enjoyed working on these new pieces and I do hope the new owners will be happy with them.....

Thank you for visiting and please

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All systems go...

The excitement of opening the kiln after working on new ideas and pieces will always keep me wanting to create more...  Even before knowing whether on opening it will be a success or a failure, my mind is forever thinking "what next?"...

So my interstate move has come and gone and I am finally set up with my work area organised and my little kiln plugged in and in working order! (Enter big sigh of relief here!)... It has been wonderful being able to sit at my wheel again and get my hands dirty.

In my last post I talked about our road trip interstate to our new home and along the way I designed pendants that were inspired by the gorgeous landscape along the way. I was able to bisque fire and glaze these pieces this week, the first firings in our new surrounds. And my little kiln did me proud...  And along with the fact that it was all experimental for me with the glazing process of the pendant as it was a first ever time I had worked with Nichrome wire for the purpose of suspending the pendants for an all over glaze finish. The thoughts of whether the wire rods would slump and the pendants would all slide together and end up as one large joined mass was a major concern. But to my delight they stayed in place and the glazing was a success!! I was so excited!



Set up of the pendants on the nichrome rods before
loading into the kiln...

Loaded and ready...

 Underglazed handpainted butterfly...

 

 

 

Transfer butterflies...

 

 Underglazed outback pendants...

 

Handpainted Pendants...

 

And here are a few Bud Vases...

 

Hand painted dragonfly Bud vase underglaze...

 I'm thinking some gold lustre will be nice on this one...

 Hand painted butterfly underglaze... Gold lustre on this one too...

Hand painted Cherry blossom...

 

Fish bowl, cesco deep blue with sgraffito....

 

It's so nice to be back at it again!!

 Thanks for stopping by, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

 

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