Hearts and witches
Well the girls are busy at the quilt show in Long Beach so I’ll just post a view of the ceramic buttons on the bottom of the kiln that I still have yet to unload. Hearts and flying witches oh my…
Bubba
New ceramic button sets
Playing around with a new post gallery feature and used some new sets posted this week in our online store. Visit the store to see these and more ceramic buttons and embellishment cards.
Joyful creations
Newly made puppy buttons, getting their first firing at about 1987 degrees Fahrenheit. They will take 8.5 hours to fire, and one full day after that to cool down. Then they will be glazed in white and black glazes, and be shiny and beautiful, awaiting exciting applications on joyful creations. 
In the same kiln load are red clay buttons. Textured hearts and apples shown on the right. Red clay is rare for me;it is gorgeous but brittle and delicate, dries so quickly it warps easily. But they are so pretty.
The plan is to get them glazed in time to get some sets in the on-line store, and to take many with us to Long Beach IQ
F.
Click on images to see a larger photo. They will look much different when they have been glazed and fired again. I’ll attempt to do side by side comparisons to post in a couple days.
Kiln Opening
Now we have lots of butterflies, fish. whales, sharks, dolphins, hearts, faces, and trees. yea!
Though there wont be many sets added to the on-line store till Sunday. Truth is I tried to kill another printer today. However, this was not one of my “what-if” attempts. I’ve come to realize that I react to machines, equipment, and heights in the same way: without a respectful fear. Anyway… there are a couple sets of trees and more wordie stars in the shopping emporium. 
At right is the second level down. (It’s just like Christmas for me)
Embellishment cards series-16
This is just one of the embellishment cards from series-16. Click on photo to see album of all 20 cards in series-16. Lots of new ceramic buttons in this group.
