Stars 4th of July Necklace

Hot summer nite with fireworks exploding, that's the kind of heat and more that it takes to create these enameled stars. 1500 degrees.... here's how i spent my Sunday morning so far:

old glory 4th of july necklaces

So i had fun torching glass enamels this morning. Here are the Old GLory 4th of July necklaces i made. They are counter-enameled blue on the back. A country feel, in the style of dog tags.

Enamel continues to be my interest right now

Today I'm firing more enamel shapes, testing out the various colors of enamel I have. Ground glass enamel is similar to pottery glazes in that you can't tell what the color will be until the glass particles are melted.
hahaha Ray read my online note that I 'wood burned' the floor with the hot enamel pc last weekend.

I'm working on a pair of earrings for the 4th of July. gosh, it's almost here... i'd better get back to creating.
Here's a photo of Iris enamel earrings I made last year. I used a stencil technique to apply the white flower.

Can you believe 2010 is almost half over? Where has the time flown? Certainly during the last half of the year I need to do better time management so I can create more items.
I will definitely be doing more glass enamel play (hopefully without 'wood burning' the floor any more).

Capturing my garden blooms in photos is also of interest to me now. I will be attempting to learn photoshop. Man that is a complicated program. I'm most interested in the 'paint' effects.

Well, the day finally arrived: June 14th, 2010, after 4 months of live camera the Molly the Owl ustream production came to an end. It was an incredible experience. Many of us made friends through chatting on social stream. The May 29th picnic had about 300 people in attendance.

I had so much fun making owl necklaces and owl magnet sets and I'm so happy that they have "flown" to new home for fellow MODS, as we are called, so they have a remembrance of our time together.

Now that I have more free time, I'm starting to make some enamel pieces. Sunday I played around with shapes and fired up the kiln to see what the various glass enamel colors looked like post firing.
Gulp, one scarey moment: dropped a hot (1500 degree) pc of copper on the hard wood floor. Just like wood burning tool, the copper burned a mark on the floor. And darn, if I didn't drop it 2 more times before safely depositing it in the pickle bath.