I could watch and listen to you all day.... what a creative genius when you have all your babies out. I love the bowls. Nourishing you. Seaweed and winter wood is beautiful. Your work fires me up. XOXOXOX I love that black sparkly stuff.
Oooooooo same to you! 😂 I fall asleep to your voice - your meditation playlist! Right? I love the seaweed and winter wood so much!!! And the black sparkles - but I think you want some blue drippy mugs right? I didn’t forget love you 😘
@@thehappyhomesteadnh I love those, as that is the one that broke. We did talk about a beach theme for the FL condo. Do not stress yourself to make them, we can live without them. I do love that seaweed and winter wood.
Great vids n combos I love yr kiln u loads u like similar colours to me. I have had this same top shelf issue for ages n talk about it in my last unload. I finally worked out thru watching back over my vids the only time my top shelf didn’t even hit 5 was when I had the top shelf too high so only 1 element was showing. Now I pack it so at least 2 elements r above the top shelf and it’s perfect now! Hope this helps xx
Great opening. Van glider has a video on building cone packs and you need to build the packs with a lean to them. Not sure if that is what happened or not but I kinda had the samething with my middle pack till i watch his video. I had my 6 go over but not my 5 lol
Lol omg thank u!!! Truth be told these cone packs were made like 3 years ago, I had to dust them off pretty good 😂 I had no idea about the lean - I will watch his video. Really appreciate it! Meanwhile, I just got cone 6 self supporting delivered from Amazon 😜. I am also going to plug the holes on the top of my kiln that helps with the venting system. That’s my husbands brilliant idea 😂
Amazing combo's, that white spectrum glaze doesn't stop to amaze me. I love the mugs with the orange ob top. Makes me thing abt the 70's, so cool. The aurora green ... Yes i have also experienced that it needs a lot of coats to get it's effect. Such a fan of your work Molly. ❤
Hi from New Jersey....I was actually looking for good glaze combos for speckled clay and now I found you and you're great combos....LOVE the ones with the Black Adventurine *(and personally I would not add any flux...they look awesome as is.) Thank You. Just subscribed and hope to see more of your videos. Thanks
Gorgeous work!! I am a NH gal currently living in Chicago - can't wait to move back to NH someday and connect with other potters! :) Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
@@thehappyhomesteadnh I grew up in Maine but lived on the NH seacoast for about 10 years! My husband is from the Concord area. We moved to Chicago temporarily for a change of pace but plan to be back in NH eventually - hopefully I'll be able to get my own little pottery set up!
@@sarahelizabeth4034 oh nice!!! I love this area so much although winters are a bit long! We live in Salisbury just a little north of concord, in the woods! If you ever come back, we should get together and clay it up!
You can check to see if the pieces on the top shelf are vitrified by filling a mug with hot water and placing it on a mirror or highly reflective surface if condensation or fog forms under the mug the clay isn't vitrified so you might want to re fire those pieces. From the cone pack It doesn't look like the top shelf hit a cone 5 so maybe a cone 4.5. Looking all over your cone packs the bottom is about a 5.5 nothing is a cone 6. I'm noticed the Mayco glazes and Amaco ancient copper like at least a once 6. You might need to replace your elements or do a thermocouple offset to increase your kiln temperature. I had the opposite problem my kiln so firing to hot to so I had to Thermocouple offset. A positive offset will decrease heat work and a negative offset will increase heat work. So you can try lowing you thermocouple offset. Beautiful pieces the vase with the Semi Matte white and Blue hydrangea looks under fired. I hope this helps.
I so appreciate you analyzing my cones!! So helpful thank u so much! I have a feeling it’s the holes on the lid of my kiln that were drilled for the fan that was installed. My entire kiln was rebuilt in 2020 and I’ve only done maybe 5-10 loads a year since then. I think the holes are causing cool air to come in. There are holes at the bottom too and there’s no way to control the speed of the fan. It’s an environvent. So I’m going to try to plug the holes on top and see if that works. In the summer I don’t run the fan because I move the kiln outside. I’m going to RE fire the top shelf pieces too. Thank u again and again!
@@thehappyhomesteadnh holes in the lid could definitely be the issue. Good Luck I hope you get the issue resolved. I really enjoy your kiln opening videos.
Thank you for another amazing video!!! How do you even determine such great combos? Do you google them or you improvise by writing everything down and hoping for the best?? Happy spring!!
Aw thank you! U make me feel so much better 😂 about myself! Some of them I see on FB groups but most of them I just try by intuition and many years of failures 😂 I do write everything down and take pics which are stored on my iPhone and I video with my iPhone so I can’t like look while I’m videoing 😂😂😂 I need to try a real camera soon!
@@thehappyhomesteadnh good. Just haven’t gotten to glaze much. Busy throwing lately. That sunny side tumbler you liked on Facebook was what pearl did on the inside on the brown clay. It turns this pretty blue/white.
@@thehappyhomesteadnh I try an make one or two kiln loads at a time. That way I can stay fresh with my throwing too. Glazing always takes forever. I thought about getting dipping glazes to make it go faster, but not ready to just pick one or two colors.
Love your videos, especially the glaze combos you use. I really like the mugs with deep sienna speckle. I don't know what type kilns you have, but L&L kilns have a temp program for each zone. You can adjust the temps to fire hotter in that zone. Other kilns may have the same. Might I ask who the manufacturers the speckled clay you use. I really like it.
Hey! Thank you so much!! I think the problem is too much air was getting in the top so we plugged the holes. I have a glaze kiln going now and I can’t wait to open it!! Will post soon! I use Laguna speckled buff - it’s gorgeous! I like to expose the raw clay so I sand the pieces down after the glaze firing with diamond core sanders. Makes them feel smooth to the touch. Thanks again!!
@@barbarac4138 I put none food safe glazes on planters. There is PC-64 Aventurine glaze that is non-food safe and there is also the PC 65-Black Aventurine that is labeled as food safe on the bottle, but anyway I am trying to find a combo for Black Aventurine for my planters that needed to be glazed, thanks.
It’s so funny you should ask that! I was noticing that the 266 felt way smoother than the sio2! And they look almost identical in raw form at a cone 5. At a cone 6 the sio2 really is black instead of dark brown. But I do burnish my pieces when I trim them too which could make them smoother after the firing. And I burnish with my metal rib while spinning on the wheel during the trimming stage.
Hey honey!!! I just started watching but it looks like your cones are straight up instead of leaning?? Just be sure to test for vitrification on the pieces that didn’t hit your clays top temp. So the top shelf definitely didn’t get vitrified so instead of testing them by putting water in them just refire whatever you had on the top. If you put water in a pot that isn’t vitrified it will have water in the clay for a very very long time so I would just fire them again. Use cookies. I live that planter. I’m ordering the black aventurine today!!
What does that mean? I’m so uneducated with cones lol. Are they supposed to be made leaning? I just ordered the self supporting ones too. Thank u for helping me! I was devastated at the top shelf cone pack 😭😂😩. And I have another load to put in so I don’t know if I should fire to a 7 instead of a 6. Also my kiln has holes on the top lid and at the bottom to allow the environvent to work. U know the fan? It said to put holes in the top and bottom. I think that might be adding cool air 🤷🏻♀️
Oh honey I’m so sorry I know how gut wrenching that can be. So vitrification is reallllly important for anything you will be putting food or water in. The clay has to vitrify meaning it will no longer absorb any water. If the clay doesn’t get hot enough it will absorb moisture and leak. If it gets to the temp the clay is supposed to go to it will seal itself and not allow any water to absorb into it. Just fyi I am so damn tired right now it’s ridiculous. Let me finish this when I wake up a litttle. I have been up so late the past few days. Sorry.
@@thehappyhomesteadnh yeah the vent holes was my thought too, which if the cones are right underneath could maybe cause them not to read. However, I think sometimes people turn off the vent for the highest segments of your fire schedule. I know we turn off the vent around 1400 on the up side and then not back on until similar temp on the cooling side. I believe digital fire maybe had suggested this. Seems to work for our “drop and soak schedules” Cheers, Jay
@@jaynorthwoods SO HELPFUL!!!! thank you so much!! I will try this or should I plug the top holes altogether? I’m such a set it and forget type of person 😂😂😂😂
@@lindaking8035 so that’s satin patina from the bottom up to about the top of the handle. And then soft white by spectrum on top to where the satin patina meets the soft white, with a slight overlap. That’s it! Can you believe it? I LOVE these
