hi Marianne! i know how you feel about not being able to work - i have my
right hand bandaged up and will not be able to use it for at least another
month - i'm going seriously stir crazy though i am learning to hen peck
type - capitals are a problem.

new kiln sounds wonderful - hope you get a replacement glaze maker soon. i
don't suppose that your glaze maker would be willing to pass the recipes on
to another maker?

donna


"Bubbles/Marianne" wrote in message
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Hi everyone!

Just wanted to send you all summer greetings from Zurich. It is hot hot
hot here these days and my workshop is very tempting, but I have guests
until the middle of July, so that will have to wait.

My new kiln is a wonder with the new controller. I can now also set the
cooling rate, and have had much less problems with craters. Sadly, though,
the guy (one man business) that makes the glazes I buy from my supplier
has become very ill and is unable to make glazes these days. It is very
serious, and it might turn out that his wonderful non-run high-fire glazes
won't be available any more. It would truly be a loss if that were the
case, as I haven't seen or heard of any glazes that are so easy to brush
on and so wonderfully non-runny at high temps.

When I got my new kiln, hubby did some fixing up in the laundry so that I
now have plenty of shelves to store my unfired or glazed pottery until I
have a kiln-full. That gives me extra space in the movable shelf in my
workshop.

I did some experimenting with throwing porcelain a couple of months ago,
and loved the way it threw, but hated trying to cut openings in it when it
was leather hard! I probably didn't do it at the right time or with the
right tools, I guess, and have decided that it was too much dust and too
much trouble - so the rest (a few kilos) goes into my reclaim to be mixed
with my usual clay.

Been way too long since I stopped by - blame computer-crashes and
busy-ness in general since Christmas! Hope everyone is doing well and will
be posting more! GOSH! Imagine getting caught up after 6 months away - in
one night!

Keep smiling!

Marianne