The first stage of a Mother’s Day project is out of the kiln. This was my first go round with pressing glass. Most are Tabitha’s murrini on clear tetka with some being glass frit. Overall, I’m pretty tickled. The waffle will smooth out in the fire polish. Stay tuned for round 2!

I bought a bullseye sampler pack when I bought my kiln. In that pack was an unnumbered yellow. I’ve ordered from several suppliers trying to find it without a match, so I called Bullseye directly. They said it was a one off “unicorn.”

I’m not giving up. It’s the perfect sun color yellow!

Pulled Xmas ornaments out of the kiln and they were everything and then some! (My flash was not working on the after shot, so I’m baffled. But you get the idea.)

Soooo… the test taught me what pieces I like at a full fuse and which I like tack fused. These didn’t turn out half bad.

I’m running a test fire at a higher temp with this lot. Hopefully, I’ve figured it out right or else hours of work will literally be pretty puddles. Fingers crossed and a quick prayer to the glass fusing gods. To be continued.

So, yay, me. I did not create glass puddles! The test of the ornaments came out of the kiln and were not bad! I’m gonna run another test, with a higher end temp since I didn’t achieve the look I was going for. Still, I’m pleased!

New Christmas ornaments in a test firing a much different firing schedule than I normally do. Since I’ve had some flubs lately, I’m only firing two so as not to screw up the lot of them. This time. I wrote the schedule down so I can tweak it as necessary. Here’s two examples before firing.

For the record the bed was made before the dog took over.

How it started. How it ended. Thankfully, I didn’t fire all the ornaments at once.
Still, they can be happy accidents.
Ya live and ya learn. Also, don’t program the kiln when you’re tired, cuz one segment off and ya get blobs. lol. (I didn’t take a before of the blue, but it looked like the red.)