Cavy Fire Studios

Ooh yes please!

Oh my gosh it is amaaaaaaaaazing.

Heeeee! Thank you! ♥♥♥

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It was spam -i sent 5 k to italy?

Hahaha!! I wish I had 5k, period!

I now have a word ear worm. Thank you.

You 'ave a touch a'the spodg?

I am about to start on holiday gifts as well. Last year I failed miserably and waited to late, and overfired all my porcelain and it bloated and warped.

I will probably start this week on everything. Bowls with scalloped rims. Spoonholders for everyone. Set of soup mugs to replace the terrible ones I made last year. A platter and a few big bowls.

No idea! Maaybe the little avatar hasn't totally updated yet? Awww dang...what do you see? The old one?

It has swapped now, think it just took a while for servers to update.

Yay!! Try hitting "refresh" and see if it works.

You are SO TALENTED so you need to take care of YOU!! If you want the longest career possible you have got to take care of the equipment! You are hurting too many parts of your body.

I don't understand why you don't just coil build or something. If throwing is so hard on you, maybe try an alternate method. There are some absolutely breath taking pots that are coil built. I am not telling you what to do, but your work is so awesome I would hate to see an injury stop you from doing what you can do best.

Or ... since you love the decorating so much ... slip cast it! Then do your wonderful paintings.

I think I injured my shoulders (well, I KNOW I did) cleaning my humongous rabbit's poopybutt nightmare, and wedging just took the taco.If I'm not better by Monday, I'm calling the doctor. I have an ice pack on it and am sitting on my bum, totally bored. It hurts to even slightly move my arm; I'm typing with my phone. Argh! >.<

I'm sorry, I hope you get better. Ouch.

Feel better soon!!

Now, standing for a couple hours to fold laundry and do dishes and I feel like I've been run over by a truck. S T I N K S!!

Just take one wire off at a time and attach it to the exact same location on the new block. Easy peasy!

I'm actually gonna wait for my fella to come back from his trip to install it. All that wire work will kill my creaky fingers... :'(

Whooo! :)

Gerstley is the worst culprit in my opinion. It does all of the above to color and also causes bleeding of colors. Find a zinc free recipe and your colors will get better immediately.

Ooooh really? Huh, that's interesting. I confess I really enjoy the bleeding in my copper carb and mazerine blue, though. That might explain why Mayco's cobalt blue UG REALLY looked awful with that glaze...it makes for such beautiful bleeding effects for my shading, too. I think so long as my black is stable, I'm good. ♥

As long as you know what gonna happen, you can control outcome. Just don't trust it with green! :-)

A former teacher, my High School Art Teacher as a matter of fact, once told me, "Don't spend time worrying about things you can't control." There are a lot of things in life we can't control. Two of the biggest are weather and people. We just have to find an alternative, when either thing presents an obstacle.

many, many very bad words!!!!

I'm with Old Lady.

Gorgeous as always! If you don't mind, I'd like to show my students pictures of your work, to show them what's possible with underglaze.

Also, I too like the black and white, with terracotta showing through. I figured it took less time, as you verified. That would be a great time saver for you.

Beautiful work

Absolutely beautiful.

Looking forward to it!

yay fred has mojo back.

All good things come in time. And if you have a handy uncle.

I don't have an uncle but we have a friend that is a electrician, master plumber and heating and air repairman.

Nooooo

Keep us posted!!

I literally kept him on low all night! I woke up and switched him up to medium, but have been checking the plug every half hour, lol! Hnnghhh... I hope I can relax a bit for glaze firing.

You rock, girl!!! Hope you'll post some pictures of the pieces going into the gallery!

Thanks for helping the animals and a big congratulations.

Thanks, everyone! Underglazing my second piece!

Haaaa...well...more like a puff here and there, but I'm tryin'!

LOL Sounds like me. "I'm going to do all the dishes! All of them! Then clean the WHOLE kitchen. Ooh, goody, telephone!"

Lucky you I heard on the weather we might have a break in the heat in Sept because of El Nino.

We've been in the mid to upper 90's. Heat index here has been 105 to 110. Lots of stomach cramps.

Drink lots of water! I was in Santa Maria for the day a couple weeks ago. It was only about 101 but we were driving around shopping for clothes so we were constantly in and out of the car. I wasn't drinking enough water at all, and I ended up with heat exhaustion. I didn't feel that bad until the next day and then I was laid out. Not fun and I cannot recommend it. I do think it hit me worse than normal because I had just gotten over the flu. But man, drink water by the gallon.

Indeed, GiselleNo5. I drink about 8 to 16 glasses a day. It's after 10am right now and I'm soaking wet. It's a good sauna. Thanks for your advice.

I've had two root canals and they both had to be redone. The first one I was allergic to the silver points used in it. The second one was just a curvy tooth that was difficult.

Ouch Man! That cool water bucket is gonna feel good.

Ouch! hope you get well soon.

Yay! May it continue!

awesome considering a guinea only weighs about 2 lbs!

Woooohoooo!

Rakukuku: hahaha!

good deal. pays to scrounge. our gallery gets bubble wrap from another business that needs to get rid of it when they receive stuff.

"Peanut Scrounging"...Why not ask the forum for ideas on where best to get free packing materials?

It's always a plus. Good for you.