Charity Glass

OK-so I couldn't sleep last night regardless of how hard I tried. Agh. I knew I had to cut and fire a 16" by 16" platter for Congregation Beth Shalom today. I donated last year and the piece I made sold for 425.00-all of it going to build their new temple. I scaled back the wildness of the piece this year, hoping it will go with more decor.

So the glass DID NOT WANT TO COOPERATE! @#$*!%! I hate it when that happens. I was having trouble cutting the large french vanilla pieces. The second half of that glass split on the diagonal for no good reason, rendering it useless. That's how I ended up using the wavy edge glass that occurs when the glass is produced. I think it is better than what I originally had planned so we will see.

It's firing as we speak-will take about 18 hours in the kiln and then I will form it into it's platter shape on the second firing. These pics are of it pre fired and raw. The colors will change. I used tranparents for the colorful stripe down the missle and opaque french vanilla for the main body of the platter.