Hamsa Hands

I've been working on two different styles of hamsa hands.  One is rather plain, so that I can use an interesting glaze,  and the other is made up of lots of small coils...I'll use a wash on those.  This is a picture of a coil one.

I'm off to Raku....nothing like playing with fire on a 100 degree day!

The Borrowed Baby Jesus

Second nativity!  
I've kept these pieces pretty simple to give the glaze a chance to be the focal point.  The angel has been glazed but not yet raku fired (that will be Friday), Mary has been bisque fired and will be glazed tomorrow and then join the angel in the raku kiln, the baby Jesus made for this set is in the bisque kiln waiting to be fired (Mary has borrowed the first nativities baby...for photo purposes) and Joseph is still drying...the baby Jesus for this set is also a rattle...just because I like it that way!

The First of Three Nativities

This is the first of several (three, I hope) nativities.  The angel has already been bisque fired...that's why she is a different color than Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus... who are still drying.  All three of them have flowers in their hair...or Joseph's staff...the baby Jesus is a rattle....I know, you shouldn't shake babies but it's a kind of fun surprise!
I think I'll glaze the angel with crackle white...maybe the baby too and then use the new oil slick glaze on Mary and Joseph and maybe the angels wings...or I might do something else...I never really plan ahead too much.

New Glazes and Icon Boxes

The new glazes I tried out on Thursday turned out amazing!  This is the Cherokee Tara with one of them...I really like the way the colors turned out so vivid yet the glaze isn't too shiny (the picture makes her look more so than she really is...I'm SO not a photographer).



The other new glaze is a white crackle...I tried it on an angel ( her wings aren't finished yet)....and, again, the picture makes her look much more shiny than she is.













I also raku fired all the little icon boxes I made a while back...I'll post a picture of one and the rest will be on facebook.


My daughter did the beadwork...she's so much better at it than I am!