Crafty Thread - what are you working on at the moment?

[Artaxerxes]

Cups are being glazed, just done these ready for Bisque firing and glazing next week.

 

[wayward bob]

coming on leaps and bounds Artaxerxes are you glued to the pot-off for tips?

had a lovely enamelling day today. all still experimental but definitely making progress

 

[Artaxerxes]

Cheers Bob, I'm getting slightly better but a very long way to go


Pottery showdown had a better first season (thought I'd hate it, watched it in Feb and loved it, but just not feeling the second series so much)

 

[wayward bob]

i always swore the one thing i wouldn't try was pottery i couldn't have the nerves or patience to last the process. the enamelling work i'm doing atm is basically pottery but over minutes not days :thumbs :

necklaces in the making

 

[wayward bob]

done

 

[wayward bob]

i lucked out on eBay - a whole box full of indian fabric stamps in a charity auction

 

[Artaxerxes]

Those are very nice stamps indeed.



Got this back yesterday, I'm not happy with its design but my wife loves it to bits (she seems taken with my pottery far more than even I am, made some ugly test tiles and she's put em on window!)

The colours are rather fab though, the iron in the clay works really well with the glaze.

 

[Dovydaitis]

I really like that!

 

[Callie]

I really like that too!

 

[moose]

Still enjoying butchering Barbies. People have started to bring me random body parts into work

 

[Siouxsie]

"Still enjoying butchering Barbies"
My mind is doing cartwheels, the fact I can't see the pic hasn't helped

 

[moose]

"Still enjoying butchering Barbies"
My mind is doing cartwheels, the fact I can't see the pic hasn't helped

Don't know why you can't see the pic, but it's a necklace made of 8 Barbie hands of various colours, each mounted in a silver cap, strung on a chain.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Still enjoying butchering Barbies.

I dismembered my sisters doll when I was a kid and she never forgave me.

But enjoying dismembering things probably marks you down as a serial killer in the making moose.

 

[moose]

Oh definitely.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Oh definitely.

Strangely I'm glad my usual train doesn't stop in Macc.

 

[moose]

Strangely I'm glad my usual train doesn't stop in Macc.

You'd make a lovely pair of earrings.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You'd make a lovely pair of earrings.

No doubt with accessories from the S & M supplies shop.

 

[moose]

No doubt with accessories from the S & M supplies shop.

For anyone who doesn't know Macclesfield, S&M supplies is a hardware/DIY shop, not something more sinister

 

[farmerbarleymow]

not something more sinister

The DIY stuff visible in the window is just a front. They hide the kinky stuff towards the back of the shop.

 

[Siouxsie]

The DIY stuff visible in the window is just a front. They hide the kinky stuff towards the back of the shop.

How do you know

 

[Siouxsie]

Don't know why you can't see the pic, but it's a necklace made of 8 Barbie hands of various colours, each mounted in a silver cap, strung on a chain.

I blame the tech geeks at work. They tell us they are updating the software at the end of each month...all that happens is everything doesn't work properly for the next few days, including access to images...bloody mytherers

I can see your necklace now....lovely and very unusual, a bracelet of hands appeals to me also
It makes me think of the 'Ice truck killer' in Dexter

 

[19sixtysix]

 I'm in process of making new jacket pattern so practicing with cheap £3/m satins from simply fabric Brixton.

 

[fractionMan]

Still making mugs

 

[friendofdorothy]

Still enjoying butchering Barbies. People have started to bring me random body parts into work


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love it! brings to mind a club night called 'fuck me barbie' the name also described the cabaret...

 

[Manter]

I couldn't think of anywhere to put this, but I thought it was cool. Detroit's Golden Age Left Us a Limited Supply of Jewels Made From Car Paint

moose, wayward bob, Biddlybee i thought of you particularly for some reason

 

[moose]

I couldn't think of anywhere to put this, but I thought it was cool. Detroit's Golden Age Left Us a Limited Supply of Jewels Made From Car Paint

moose, wayward bob, Biddlybee i thought of you particularly for some reason

With good reason - I love that!! There's a little bit on a door frame in my house that's layered like that (probably leeching deadly lead into the atmosphere )

 

[wayward bob]

she’s seen stones that were made from boat paint and appliance paint, though they don’t have the same mystique as true motor agate

mystique

reminds me of something i saw in an exhibition: the dude's dad used the same stick to stir paint for many years, he cut it in half and it had hundreds of layers

 

[Manter]

mystique

reminds me of something i saw in an exhibition: the dude's dad used the same stick to stir paint for many years, he cut it in half and it had hundreds of layers

The name 'fordite' made me laugh

 

[Biddlybee]

Looks like marbling

 

[Shirl]

I've been making ceramic bead and silver necklaces but not really any skill involved. All I've done is assemble them.