Warning! Alcohol is bad for you!

I've been up and filling my kiln up at 6am most mornings this week.  I've got a couple of lovespoon orders to get through and things just seem to be going wrong.   I did a batch of six spoons that I wanted to get done as soon as possible.  I'd cut them all out and thought they were going to turn out good.  In my attempts to try and speed things up a bit I thought to myself  'alcohol is drying, I'll clean them up with that before I put them in the kiln' So I put a bit of isopropynol on them.  Big mistake. It left a residue on them that even after dremmelling it off and refiring twice again didn't get it off, wasted my time, effort and money and generally caused me a whole load of stress.  The moral of the story; don't use alcohol! It is bad for you!!

Mould Attempt No 3

Today I've been attempting to make a mould again.  I've made a model out of clay, am gonna make a latex mould out of that one then fill that up with melted modelling wax then use that model to make a plaster mould.  That way i'll be able to keep the latex mould to fill again and again to make the model exactly the same each time I want to make a new plaster mould, and I intend to make lots of them.  Fingers crossed this will work! 

My Shameless Plea

So as I'm now a regular blogger I thought i'd make use of my little corner of cyber space for job searching.  Shameless I know but hey in this recession needs must!  I'm looking for some little part time flexible jobs in the South Wales area doing something creative or with animals or kids to boost my income.  I'm loyal, trustworthy and willing to try new stuff so give me a try    :)

Help Needed

I'm in the process of making my own moulds for my lovespoons.  Right now it takes me a long time to cut just one so I'm trying to cut that down by using moulds instead.  Problem is I haven't got a clue what i'm doing.  I've read a bit about mould making but I'm just stumbling along, trying to figure things out for myself.  It's not been much of a success so far.  I'm using a mixture of plaster,  grog and flint.  Anybody out there able to lend me a slice of their glass fusing wisdom?  Any help is much appreciated ;)

(Unofficially) Sponsored by Samsung

I've not updated for a while because i've not been able to access my account.  I was using the family computer to do all my business stuff but our computer is pretty old and tired and doesn't always do what you want it to do, which is really annoying when trying to run a business.  However, I have now been forced into the 21st century! I am the proud owner of a tablet.  This is all new for me cos I'm not much into all this technology malarky, I'm a creative not a techie.  I needed a new phone too so I did a bit of smart shopping around and found a deal with the Carphone Warehouse.  I got a Samsung Galaxy Ace phone, Samsung Galaxy tab and a Samsung camera for £21 a month.  I am now unofficially sponsored by Samsung.