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A Day We All Remember

Thoughts and prayers for all of those affected on this day 11 years ago.  You will always be in our hearts.  Peace.

Stringing Magazine Feature

Earlier in the year I submitted a couple pieces to Stringing Magazine Fall 2012 for their Ultimate Guide Shopping Section, one was chosen and it was great to see it in the magazine!

The pendan featured is the one above, I took several pictures of the actual magazine page and it just didn't come out good, which I came to the conclusion that the resolution in the magazine was not the best.  So I found a picture I had from before.  This is a porcelain pendant of a heart with thorns glazed in several colors, and each color takes three coats.  Lots of work.   I also have the one below available in my etsy store.

The forgotten blog..... and Roses

You may remember this blog post  back a couple months ago, carving rubber stamps was a project to do for a while.  And finally it was done but then it took a while to do something with them.  This picture  above was taken back then to show how stamps work with inks.

The following pictures are of pendants using the rubber stamps, I used the big swirl above. I called them Roses because that was the intent and that's what they remind me of.  These will be in my   etsy store later today but in the meantime enjoy!

New Batch of an Old Favorite "Spring Flings"

Pieces I got out of the kiln this  morning.

You all have seen the pieces I make called Spring Flings, I get orders on these often so I make a batch every other month or so.  This is the most recent one I made and thought I share since I desperately needed a blog update.  You can see the more detailed process on how I make these Here  I will have several of these to list on  etsy in the next couple days.

Pieces are still wet.

Here they have been drying for a couple days.

A couple pieces in the bisque (one firing) stage.

Leaf sets for earrings.  Finished with a clear top glaze.