Tag Archives: porcelain

Disaster.

This will be a high speed posting, I am running out of time.  It’s three weeks and a couple of days to the show and I haven’t even begun assembling dolls yet.  And, helpfully, there has been a disaster. Here … Continue reading

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Werk. Bang.

I have finished the rubbing down and cleared up.  I have wet washed the floor, all the drapes across the furniture, my clothes, my hair, my bed and anything else involved. Fifteen solid at least fourteen hour days.  Never done … Continue reading

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Lifting the lid.

It’s always better than Christmas.  I love lifting the kiln lid on things that have never been seen before. I came downstairs early and took the bungs out in my slippers, which is a strange place to have bungs.  Then … Continue reading

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Cooking up a storm.

If you’re waiting for a vampire to show up he’ll be back shortly.  Meanwhile, if you’re not out shopping for garlic, I thought you might like to see this. This is the kiln loaded for the first firing of all … Continue reading

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First pour.

I have begun pouring and expect to be at it for days and days, possibly a week or more.  Every day’s pour takes at least two to clean, so it looks like that’s my summer sorted.  Here’s what I’ve got … Continue reading

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A rubber.

I’ve turned into a right little rubber, I’ll have to be, I have several hundred things to rub.  Here they are: Does that look like plenty of work to you? It’s quite exciting because everything is new.  What I’m hoping … Continue reading

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Bio porcelain diversity.

Here is a picture, an interesting picture.  Can you see what it is, yet? One of the extreme joys of porcelain is opening the kiln on a new doll.  You just don’t know what you’re going to find.  After 17 … Continue reading

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Knackerbockers.

There will be no Knickerbocker Glory this Friday, not even a lick of the spoon.  It’s ten at night on Thursday and I’ve just stopped rubbing down porcelain, which I’ve been doing all day.  I’m beyond knackered and need to … Continue reading

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