I've been rearranging things at home a bit recently. My new dish soap comes in a round container, and when you do dishes you always end up with some wet, soapy stuff sliding down the detergent bottle (at least I do.) So, I decided to use a small plate I made a while ago as a dish detergent bottle coaster on the counter.
I used it all this week. This morning, I looked and noticed this:
There are either poltergeists in my home breaking plates clean down the middle and laughing about it, or my friend Heather's cat, Walker, whom I'm cat-sitting for a few weeks must be playing games with the ceramics while I'm out of the house.
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| Walker staring at himself in the mirror |
I will be tossing this one and just making another. It was really an experiment in glazing when I first made it. I was attempting to get a pretty
purple color with a glaze called "Heaven's Gate." It's a runny glaze, but when you do it right it turns purply. I put a good enough amount around the edges of the plate to get it to turn out, but obviously only had a thin layer inside the plate, since that didn't change color.
After this little plate I made my sister a bowl with the same color. It turned out pretty well. Now to figure out how to make a plate that doesn't crack down the middle.
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