Yesterday I picked up two glazed cups from the clay studio, and put a couple of dry ones onto the bisque firing shelf. I'm not super happy with the reddish area where the blue celadon interior/rim glaze and the ombre body glaze meet. But now I know that it does that!
I spent an hour today at the U of O craft center glass lab and made 9 beads that I hope are keepers, and utterly messed up another 4 beads. I got tired and was pushing too hard on the mandrels with the molten glass, and broke loose the bead release coating. Bleah. The guy managing the lab was very nice about it, said not to worry about the 4 now-ruined mandrels (glass sticks to metal and doesn't release). He reminded me that when you step away from a craft for a few years, you think you can come back where you left off but in reality it will take a little time. Hopefully I will have bead pics next week when I go back for another session, and pick up the annealed beads from this session.
Finally, I wrapped up the evening by making another foot or so progress on the rigid-heddle plain woven belt.
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