Happy New Year! Here's a Pie, a Skull, and Jewelry

More pieces to show.

First, here's the scary skull after firing.  Very shiny but grungy

The pie turned out delicious.  The apples have a little more red in them than I would like.

Here's the swirled clay pieces after glazing and firing.

I then decided to make some jewelry with decals. 2 gold, a dichroic film, and a creative image.

Added a few ebellishments to the jewelry and made a 5th dichroic glass piece.  Ready to fire.

New Workshop!

It's our first workshop of the new year!  We will meet Saturday January 19 at 10 a.m. and will finish around 1 p.m.  Feel free to bring snacks and drinks. Go to our workshop page to enroll or view all the workshops we have scheduled.  You can also call or come in to enroll - (314) 842-0110.  This year we'll do 2 projects, so while one is drying, you can work on the other.  This first class is $60 and includes all supplies and materials.

Our first project will be this lovely home decor tray.

We'll also make this striking sushi plate with hand-painted poppies.

Well we survived Christmas 2012! You all kept me hopping! And a big thank you for that! 

Since we love our customers SOOOOOO much, we have decided to give you a bonus as well! 

Until the end of business on Sunday, all Christmas items are 30% off! That's right, all trees, snowmen, reindeer, and ornaments are all 30% off! First come first serve. No pushing, no shoving. 

Just good will towards men! 

Muah! 

Jim

More Finished Items

Here's the finished Owl painted on a leaf plate.

And the scratched up vase.

One Flop and Two WIPs

The lemon soap dish turned out all wrong.  Way too crackly.  Should have known with all the crackling happening even before firing.  Oh well, might try again later.

The large soap dish turned out better.  Does anyone know if a plant exists with orange berries and leaves like this?

Here's a new shape from Duncan that I like.  Trying out some sgraffito effects.  Lots of scraping and scratching going on.

And finally this guy.  Just some quick antiquing on a fun skull.

Two Finished Projects and Two WIPs

This plate needed something so I wrote on it with a Pebeo pen and baked it in.

Orange plate with flowers all fired up and finished.

Two more WIPs.  This tropical leaf plate wasn't selling so I made a new sample for it - inspired by Tim McPhearson's ornament dish owl design.  Actually the second try on the lemon soap dish.  I tried white crackle glaze first and the color faded into it and the crackling was less than stellar.  Here I'm using cobblestone.  It's cracking a lot.  I'll have to be careful not to flake any off before it goes in the kiln.

Frame with Elm branch

I finished this frame with a kind of wood look.  I pre-painted the leaves behind the creative image.  As you can see, I missed a couple of them - oh well.  Parker deigned to model for the picture.