April 8, 2007
My grandma made this cake for Easter last year.
April 22, 2007
Greg took me to a baseball game for our anniversary last year.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
I was reorganizing some pictures,
and found some that I want to post.
April 8, 2007
My grandma made this cake for Easter last year.
April 22, 2007
Greg took me to a baseball game for our anniversary last year.
April 8, 2007
My grandma made this cake for Easter last year.
April 22, 2007
Greg took me to a baseball game for our anniversary last year.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Raku
We raku'd some pieces on Thursday in my ceramics class. It was awesome. I glazed two of my bowls for it. The nice thing about Raku is that it only takes a couple of hours as opposed to a couple of days, and the glazes are really neat. I also took some pictures.
The fire that's heating the kiln.
The kiln on the right and the garbage can we put our pieces in on the left.
The hole on the side of the kiln, so you can look in and see if the pieces are glowing. When they are glowing really bright that's when we take them out and put them in the trash cans.
The kiln all fired up.
My pieces all done. Mine were in the first firing. I took pictures of the second firing.
The kiln again.
Ready to be moved.
And moving them to the trash cans.
We put newspapers in the bottom of the cans and then put the pieces in, and since the pottery is so hot it catches the newspaper on fire.
We put the lid on it, so that we can smother the fire and reduce the oxygen. By reducing the oxygen the glazes can react with the carbon and we get the neat colors and crackling.
There's a pulley system to raise and lower the kiln.
Doesn't my professor look a bit like Mrs. Wagoner.
And by the end of class we all smell like a campfire.
Here are my pieces:
The fire that's heating the kiln.
The kiln on the right and the garbage can we put our pieces in on the left.
The hole on the side of the kiln, so you can look in and see if the pieces are glowing. When they are glowing really bright that's when we take them out and put them in the trash cans.
The kiln all fired up.
My pieces all done. Mine were in the first firing. I took pictures of the second firing.
The kiln again.
Ready to be moved.
And moving them to the trash cans.
We put newspapers in the bottom of the cans and then put the pieces in, and since the pottery is so hot it catches the newspaper on fire.
We put the lid on it, so that we can smother the fire and reduce the oxygen. By reducing the oxygen the glazes can react with the carbon and we get the neat colors and crackling.
There's a pulley system to raise and lower the kiln.
Doesn't my professor look a bit like Mrs. Wagoner.
And by the end of class we all smell like a campfire.
Here are my pieces:
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Mobile Uploads. Hooray!!!
Ever since I got my iPhone I was a little upset because I thought that I couldn't upload photos to facebook. Well guess what. There is a way, and I am so excited about this. All you have to do is make sure that you have set up your facebook mobile and send the photo via email to photos@facebook.com. Make sure that it's from gmail because I've heard that yahoo won't work. Also the subject line is the description of the photo, so whatever you type in the subject line is going to be the description. I guess this is more for Greg. But I wanted to let my friends here know that I will be uploading a whole bunch of photos to my facebook mobile uploads album.
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