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How Not to Bake Your Clay
I can honestly say it had been years and years since I’d done more than a light toasting of any of my clay work. I had gotten used to my old oven and learned to carefully plan in the fact that it cooked around 30F cooler than what the dial said.
Recently I moved and switched ovens. This one bakes much, much hotter than the temperature on the dial but not reliably so. It seems to vary between 25 and 100F from the temperature on the dial which has made for some tense moments the last few trays of beads culminating in one the other day which resulted in my first seriously burned tray of clay anything.
So until we figure out what the issue is, I’m watching all my baking like a hawk.
Baking Makes Me Happy
Whether it’s chocolate chip cookies or beads, I’m pretty fond of baking. The cookies got baked on Tuesday so for a less fattening encore I baked beads on Wednesday.
The oven here still needs a little tinkering as some of these beads are a bit toasted but over all it’s lovely to be getting into the regular flow again.
And part of the bonus of the still-forming studio and office space is that there is plenty of space for friends to play with clay at the same time as me.
The Shop: ArtFire is Fired Up!
It’s corny but I’m giving my ArtFire shop a little TLC – loading it to the gills and poking into all the new features that ArtFire has to offer lately. Here’s a start, the cane sets and lentil beads I have up on Artfire:
And the lentils:
So check ‘em out or the whole shop and have a poke around ArtFire. They recently redid their front page and the individual artist pages. It’s a real improvement.
