hello, it's me...

It's been a long week and we didn't finish this job. In fact we are having to redo a section because the first time didn't come out that great. It's an unpredictable technique. I'll have to come back next week for several days to finish it. But that's OK. I'll just make sure one of those days is Thursday. That would be 'yoga with the girls' day.

It's been nice, having the grandkids hang out in the afternoons/early evenings but I am almost out of clean underwear. Plus it's like living in a Korean dormitory here...stuff works, sort of. And more than once we've had to make do without something that isn't here, but at home.

Along with all the stuff I had to do on this job, I also got together with our friend Gene who does fused glass to work out a sample. He has already done two very simple renditions that we decided to fuse together for a very cool effect and then we did another. It needs work. There are several things I would change if I was going to re-do it (not use that dark red glass for one, use more frit or powder for shading for another). Instead we are going to try a different flower from the proposed panel next week.

And we're casting a bunch of little egg shells. The first time we ran through the kiln program, I picked one of eight at random and demolded it to see if it had cast and it had not. So now the kiln is going through the program again with a longer period at casting temperature. I hope they cast this time. I hope we haven't slipped out of the groove and are now going to be faced with a bunch of failures til we get warmed up again.

All in all, I'll be glad to get home for a few days.