More Clay Chimes

Spring time is clay time, and why should kids have all the fun?

I made a lot more clay beads and added some cookie cutter shapes into the mix.  The beads and charms will be strung into musical hanging chimes. I used low-fire white clay that I had on hand and bisque fired to cone 04 to drive the moisture out. Here's everything ready to be glazed.  

Glazing all those pieces is a big job. To make light of it I hosted a glazing party at the house and invited friends and family to stop by and help glaze. It was fun glazing and visiting around the kitchen table and by the end of the day everything was glazed and ready to be packed back to the kilm glazed with Amaco Opalescent Liquid Glazes. It is the first time I've use these glazes and I'm really excited to see how they turn out.  

Here are some glazed beads drying on skewers. 

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Haiti House Update

A great big thank you goes out to the community members who supported the Haiti House Project and made it such a resounding success.  We have officially moved on from making pins and are in the final phases of collecting donations.  If you don't have your pin yet, there are still a few out there, but you'll have to scramble to get one.
Donations from the last of the pins are still trickling in and already we have surpassed our goal.  At the end of the day, we will have raised more than $600 through this project, which will go far toward feeding hungry children in Haiti.
Thank you students for your efforts in creating the pins.  They were the incentive for many to donate and created quite the buzz.