The worst part of ceramics is waiting for the kiln to cool.  Yes, I push it way more than I should and probably shorten the coil life, but really.  It should cool faster!

I have peaked and see a glaze fail – will have to throw at least 2 pieces in the small kiln and run them back up and see if I can get the bubble to smooth out.   😥  Two pieces, same glaze, right next to the 2 fails are just fine.  Go figure.

Of course I can only see the top shelf.  I have to wait about 6 more hours before I see the rest.  And I can say that the color around her name is way darker than I would have liked but that’s ok.

In the meantime I have played with a new totem

and painted some of the vanity.  The pink paint is crinkling.  Same as all the rest of the paint but crinkling.  I hope I’m not seeing a trend here.  My plan is to paint the rest of the vanity by hand.  And I have to fix the princess paper on the one end.  I should have GACed it before I painted.  Now is has a wrinkle.

It’ll all come together in the end and look as if I had it all planned this way all along.  Sometimes that’s more than half the fun:  taking what I get, which is never what my head sees in the first place, and allowing it to become what it wants to become.

Oh, and next time I really do have to remember to wear gloves!