Nightly Goodnight Everyone

[Dot]

About to hit the sack and start the sleepathon weekend so goodnight everyone x Goodnight Ray yes my head is the right way around just the rest of me is twisted x Oh Ray you "farting" OMG NO

[Greynomad]

It was the dog, Dottie... HONEST!

[dream4red]

Congratulations on making it past the halfway mark Dot. The end of this torture is now is in sight xxxx

More shed ferkling today, I could feel Dot's whip being cracked. The kiln is fully loaded and ready for me to get down there in the morning to fire it up.The peacefulness and tranquility of my shed are always welcome therapy here.

sleep well you lot, nighty night xxx

[Dot]

The boys are on their bikes, HOLDEN did well in NT, my niece and family called in to see me (they came from Melb to go to the net ball game then to the Zoo and home Tuesday) Brian was not impressed with the sprogs he ain't a kiddy cat at all, just got over their last visit. Saw HTFFBO for a little bit because I escaped out of sight of ???????? Nearly time to hit the sack just 42ks to go but my eyes may not make it so I shall say goodnight everyone x Goodnight Norman x

[dream4red]

Hope the boys in lycra entertained you Dot xxx

Kiln was fired today, tomorrow I will know what level of success I have had. In the last moments of the highest heat, I peeped in and actually watched as a vital tiny bit of glass slowly melted and rolled of the piece, there was nothing that I could do. At that temp, if I could have got any tool in, to push the glass back, the glass would have exploded with the shock of the cool tool. So maybe that's the last day of the kiln firing for a while...maybe, can never say never.

I need a warm bed now, so nighty night xxx

[RobertNotBob]

Good night all another day of packing so of to bed. Sleep tight Robert

[jon_d]

Deborah,

how do you do it? Do you balance the glass pieces in place so they melt together?

I would be great to see a pic of the work you do,

jd

[Shirley]

Certainly the making of this glass jewellery sounds interesting & time consuming, think Deborah is hooked on it

[Dot]

Deborah is "fused" to her work Does some neat stuff (from one who knows) Well the HOLDENS won again today My bombers bombed so I am reasonably happy with today. Off to town tomorrow for #17 so now goodnight everyone x Goodnight Mikeg x

[dream4red]

Dot, that is a terrible pun. You get the pun-ishable award tonight. Hope the uphill run happens very quickly now xxxxxxx

Shirley, you are right. It's a hobby that just just keeps on growing. The making of this jewellery has been a godsend for me. It gives me a reason to get out of bed and has helped us both to have a reason to travel, meet new people and have some fun along the way.

Jon, mostly, yes I just balance the bits on top of each other on a shelf in the kiln and hope they fuse where I put them. If there are a lot of tiny pieces that dont want to balance, I use a glue to hold the bits together just to move it to the kiln. Once it gets hot the glue stops being strong and burns out, so its a bit of a 2 way thing, good and bad if you see what i mean? If the glue relaxes at the wrong temp, the bits just wander all over the place. That can lead to some very interesting pieces too. Have a look at the facebook page D.d.dragon dezigns (make sure to use a z in dezigns) and scroll down the pics. There are some pics of things in the kiln. I dont really put a lot up there. It's mainly to let my friends and customers know where to find me.

So today was another of those days. I almost wished that the idea for making cheats earings had not happened. The tiny (2 mm diameter) magnets are so strong that we both had a bit of a struggle to separate them. I put the individual magnets onto a sheet of metal and then glued the bits of glass on top....ultra fiddly. My next fear is that the glue will have stuck the magnets and glass to the metal...tomorrow will tell.

All this fiddly stuff is very tiring, so off to that warm bed for me. Sleep well you lot xxx