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Aug. 8, 2009 - A new clay family! - By Elisabeth

Here is the whole family.


Here is a girl and her dad.


Sorry they're blurry!


I made those a while ago!
I never got around to posting though!
g2g
Betsy
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Jun. 4, 2009 - Cute little clay family -- and food. (Elisabeth)

Here's s family I made for a friend a while ago.


And their food.


I haven't been doing many crafts lately.
I might do more soon though!
Betsy
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Apr. 13, 2009 - Clay Couple -- By Elisabeth

Here is a clay couple I made. I made the man today and the lady a few months ago I think.


And Saturday I made this lady.


G2G
Betsy
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Apr. 9, 2009 - We changed ithis blog so I'm posting a different kind of craft -- By Elisabeth

I remembered that in the summer I can't use the oven and the house gets real hot, so beth and I decided it could be a craft blog instead of only clay.
I've been making some Marshmellow people so I decided to post them.
The lighting is very bad. Sorry!


Mary and Molly camping.


Marshy.



Mellow (I think, it might be marshy again!)  (You know, Marshy and Mellow. Marshmellow!)


Their house. Only Marshy and Mellow live in this one. I made Mary and Molly their own house and some furniture.


Mary and Molly eating chocolate and chips.

Now, here's how to make your own marshmellow person.

Supplies needed:

Glue Gun
Hole puncher
Two Marshmellows
One black marker
A small amount of pink foam sheet
wire cutteres
pipe cleaners (the ones I got were called fuzzy sticks)
Glue for glue gun  (hee hee I couldn't help it!)

Instructions:

Take your Marshmellows and glue them together useing your glue gun.
Then, draw a face on the top marshmellow.
Take your hole puncher and poke two holes in your pink foam sheet.
take your tiny circles and glue them to the far edges of the mouth.
You know will have the complete version of the head.
For the arms take two 1 1/2 inch pipe cleaners (fuzzy sticks) and poke half a inch into the lower marshmellow.
Then, for the feet I put the same size stick in the front of the bottom of the
man/lady/boy/girl.


Here you can see the feet sticking out.
You may want to glue the stick after it is put in. My arms and legs were falling out at first!
If you don't want powder all over your hands well you play you can let them dry out over night.

So that's how i make them! I found them at:
http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat13868&PRODID=xprd73857
I changed them a lot so the original pattern is free at the site!
G2G
Betsy
 

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Mar. 28, 2009 - This and that things -- By Elisabeth



First of all a snake I made a while ago.

A little thingy I made with a screw, two dimes, some clay, and some staples.

And a lady I made. I also made her a daughter but my picture wouldn't turn out!
Well that's all for today!
~Betsy~
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Mar. 16, 2009 - A short tip - by Elisabeth

Hi!
Here is a short tip:
To save clay you can shape some aluminum foil into what you are making,
then wrap the foil with the color of clay you want.
I made the lamp on the first post using this tip.
I hope it will help in your clay making!
~Elisabeth~
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Mar. 15, 2009 - More clay things - by Beth

My friend Suzannah made this. We have a kiln to fire our clay in and we also have glazes. Suzannah's brother made the fruit bowl.

By Suzie

By Mark.

Some fun clay facts for the interested ...

Unfired air dried clay is known as "green ware". A green ware piece can be melted back down to being a glob of clay, simply by adding water. Before a piece can be put into the kiln, it must be thoroughly dried. This can take up to a week depending on atmospheric conditions and the thickness of the clay.


Once dry the clay is fired at a temperature of 1050 degrees for stoneware. This is the biscuit or bisque firing and is slow. The temperature must be brought up slowly to avoid breaking the clay by thermal shock. The following temperature points are critical.


  • 100 oC 212 oF - water turns to steam
  • 225 oC 440 oF - cristobalite (a form of silicon oxide) rapidly expands
  • 270 oC 517 oF - carbon burns
  • 573 oC 1050 oF - quartz (another form of silicon oxide) rapidly expands
  • 900 oC 1652 oF - the clay isnow strong enough to take normal handling

Once you get above 600 oC, the clay has been transformed and will no longer melt by just adding water. The chemically combined water is driven off at that temperature.

After a bisque firing, the piece is now ready to glaze. Glaze firing is usually much more straight forward than bisque firing. Since the work has already been fired, there is no chance of it blowing up in the kiln. The glaze firing is simply intended to bring the glaze to a temperature when it will 'flux' or melt, forming a permanent coating. This means that you do not have to start a glaze firing slowly. The slide show below shows our work in the various stages - air drying, glazed, fired.

PS. I changed the template to one called 'soap' - slightly different to the previous one. I don't know why the profile picture suddenly changed to that. I think it only happens when you change thhe template the second time. 

Bye!

Beth~



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Mar. 14, 2009 - Some food I made. - By Elisabeth

Today I will share some pictures of some food I made. I made a whole bunch but I don't feel like taking pictures of it all!


Salad.


Mashed potatoes, corn, and roast beef.


Spaggeti (I can't spell that!)


Ice cream! There is strawberry on the other side.


Cake! Yum! That's the last one!

Well that was all!
 
~Betsy~





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Mar. 14, 2009 - Hi! - By Beth

Hello, this is Bethany (Beth) and here is my clay things I've made.

 

My brothers made these. :-) They're Indian masks

 

 

C'ya! Sunflower8 aka Beth

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Mar. 13, 2009 - Welcome! - by Elisabeth

Hello, and welcome to our blog!
I decided to post a hello and one picture.
I'm not quite ready to make the post big.

This is a girl I made. I named her sunflower, before I knew I would share this blog with sunflower8.  :-)
I made the lamp too.
So that is only two of my many things I've made!
I'll post again soon and Beth probably will too.
Have a good day!

~Betsy~
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