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I always offer up a few words before I turn the kiln on!

Hi everyone, I fired it according to my schedule, with only three hours at 80C to start with and kept the soak at 30 minutes at the end. It turned out well, am very happy with it. It's a Japanese style stone tea lantern. they are sold in my local garden centre, they are quite expensive so I made my own! I've out it in my wildlife garden next to our little pond.

It's going in tonight - will let you know how it goes!

Lovely, thank you. I will do a shorter hold at the start and maybe a slightly longer one at the end. I'll also give the yoghurt idea a go! I'm in southern England, I might have to loosely wrap the statue if the weather gets very cold over winter.

Hi everyone, I've made a small (40cm tall) sculpture to sit outside in the garden. I don't want to glaze it, as I'd like moss to grow on it. It has been drying for two weeks inside my house and I'm sure it's dry all the way through. Can I fire it in my electric kiln if I do a long (maybe overnight) candling at 80C and then use my slow bisque program with the last part of my glaze program at the end? It is about 1cm thick. My reasoning for this is that I want to be able to leave it outside all year round and I want it to be tough, but I'm not sure why I would have to bisque it and then high fire it too. So it would go: ramp to 80C, hold overnight ramp at 75C per hour to 600C ramp at 100C to 1180C soak for 30 minutes end I have a rohde ecotop kiln, and am using potterycrafts buff school clay (1140C - 1240C) How does that sound? Thanks very much for your help