Post #684626 by danlovestikis on Thu, Jul 4, 2013 12:55 PM

I just can't stay away from all of you here on Tiki Central the happiest place on earth! We went for a holiday special 2 for 1 at Macaroni Grill and now we are hanging out until it is time for fireworks with all our neighbors. I did get some work done early this morning so I'll share.

Atomic Tiki Punk I shed a few tears, so much work down the drain but I always call failures a learning experience.

LoriLovesTiki thank goodness we can look at all the event photos after they happen. I loved the photos of Crazy Al swimming with the Mermaids at Hukilau.

GROG yes but remember that since that time I found out that overheating can cause this and Aquanet hairspray can fix it. So I have to make sure I fire right and Dan hasn't run out of his favorite hairspray!

lunavideogames Dan's jealous too he wanted the mug. I told Dan to think up his own and add it to the next Wish List. I like happy endings.

Hale Tiki all the fun of posting now is almost worth all the horror of those many weeks.

hang10tiki it's a funny thing but once you do the work you "forget about it" and just keep on truckin.

Philot thank you. His mug went through without a hitch. Hers was a disaster. If the octopus had enough glaze after the first firing then I wouldn't have fired it so many times causing so many areas to pop off. So it was my problem.

littlegiles I love cliffhangers. I feel like I have a new one coming every time I glaze. Thank you for the thumbs up.

VampiressRN you be so funny. Thank you I like the word gorgeous.

TikiTacky you are exactly right. What I didn't know and learned with this mug is that each time you fire it runs again. So by the end of the 4th firing the runny glaze on the mug was really thin. I'd used it on inside of the mug and so the bottom of the inside was super thick.

Atomic Tiki Punk thank you for thinking of me today. I'm going to work on the Tiki Oasis painting as soon as I finish here. There are always so many projects that I have to fill in all the time with something important.

A Report on the morning of July 4th. Kind of like a report on summer camp.

I just un-loaded my camera and found photos from a couple of days ago. I unloaded a filled kiln of bisque ware and carried it outside.

I set up to wash it all so that it would be ready to glaze.

I got it all done in spite of 107 degree heat. I splashed water all over myself too.

If you are watching the Ohana page, topic Infirmary, author VampiressRN you will see that GROG has some serious things coming up. I'm making him a commemorative Tiki Bob mug. If I get it done in time he can take it with him when he has the big time surgery. Once he has it I'll share photos here.

This morning I spent a couple of hours sanding projects. This is the bowl that will hold the volcano.

Even though the texture on the outside of this bowl looked good I still sand it because glaze doesn't like to stick on sharp surfaces.

I decided it was time to make a bowl that was nipple-less and kid friendly. So here is with...

and then without those little bumps. Dan was not happy about the change. I want to see how much detail I can do with under-glaze. These will have a moomoo or mumu??? so I can paint patterns.

The bowl has a mini volcano in the bottom of the bowl.

So I gave out after 6 items.

I have three left for tomorrow morning and then I'll have Dan blow off the dust and I'll fire.

I have nothing left that needs to be made after this load is done. That means I'll be glazing
non-stop load after load until I finish them all.

I better get to that painting. I hope you all have fireworks in your future. Many hugs dear friends, Wendy and Dan