I like baking on a bed of cornstarch - it really cushions beads nicely
and you don't have to worry about denting from the polyfill. Learned
that trick from Jana Roberts Benzon, but other artists do it as well.

Barbara

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nanner wrote:

My first baking test with the toaster oven as been a success, i think! I
baked on the bottem rack on the provided metal tray with a layer of
poly-fil. i cooked some small (teeny) eyeballs and a 1" head and made a
quick hair-rooting tool (a clipped sewing needle in about 1.5" x .25" pc
handle) baked all for a bit extra (about 30 min) becsue the temp seemed to
hover a bit low ( around 255/260 degrees) All came out fine. The little
eyeballs were white canes with blue and black centers, no darkening.

so - other than the limited space I guess I will try to use this for awhile.
I don't want something as annoying as this to slow down what I really want
to do!!!