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Lesson about wearing glasses and I need to stop being so stressed so I can think clearly


this picture shows my first batch of aromatherapy clay pendants. This is low fire clay. When i went to fire them last time I did not look at the package with glasses on and saw only "cone 6". Looking up the temperature chart on Internet... cone 6 is 2,232...
The cone/firing temp for "06" low fire is - 18,030... I have been stressed lately and very fuzzy thinking - it should have been a real no brainer low fire vs high fire non mistake. You can't tell from the picture but the clay over-fired and vitrified. The pieces will make good wind chimes.

Second try:


after drying to leather hard stage, I then clean the edges a bit...


and load the kiln:

this kiln is from around 1970 and still has the original coils...

I've made a lot more paper beads. It is tricky to cut the paper and roll so that the beads come out the same size.


bought my tools for making "Broken Plate" jewelry:

I saw a how-to where the person used chamois cloth and inserted a wire hanger and glued that to the back of the chard. I'm going to try that... I'm not a fan of the copper foil/non lead solder.

Here's the plates that I bought today to practice with:


Last but not least -

signed up before midnight April 1st for Camp NaNoWriMo... http://campnanowrimo.org/
same deal as National Writing Month in November - goal is 50,000 word count by the end of the month.

I am using a story that I slightly started since last December... I have a character list and a 2 page synopsis.

off to check the kiln temp... no more over firing.