Lampworkers

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Kandice Seeber" :

]Speaking of which, if anyone here is using my beads and wants extra business ]cards, I have them and can send them to you - just let me know! :)

yes, please, dear!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Really? Have you actually found an American car? My father has been... complaining... for years about the lack of American cars....

Even the ones with American brand names on them are filled with parts made elsewhere, and it's almost impossible to get American made replacement parts.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

I did it with cracked marbles, bottle glass and seed beads when I was doing ceramics/pottery back in the 1980s. It will depend on the glazes, the clay(s) and the firing temp, as well as how big the glass chunks are. Usually, I used "Duncan Transparent Gloss" low fire glaze, no matter what clay/temp I was using-- used it to "stick" the glass to the bisque ware, and kind of fill in the spaces between glass chunks. Reds generally burn out, sometimes with a kind of scummy blackening, even at "low fire" (cone 06). Seed beads generally only slump at that temp, but melt in pretty well at high fire (stoneware, cone 5-8); bright colors generally burn out by cone 5. Cone 10 is usually too hot and everything just blurs, and most colors burn out. The one stoneware bowl that I filled about an inch high with cracked glass (mix of bottle and marbles) turned out wonderful, despite the big crack in the glass that developed. It all melted down into a solid "pool" about a 1/2" deep-- looked like a tropical sea tide pool. I figure it cracked because either the ceramic temp cool down process was too fast for glass, or just because it wasn't compatible shrink-ratewise with the stoneware (which was "Duncan white stoneware clay", in case you're interested). Putting little chunks on the rim of a bowl, cup, etc. and letting the melt streak down the sides looks good, too. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

What a cool description of how this works. Thanks

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :

]Really? Have you actually found an American car? My father has been... ]complaining... for years about the lack of American cars.... ]Even the ones with American brand names on them are filled with parts made ]elsewhere, and it's almost impossible to get American made replacement ]parts....

i honestly don't know. i haven't had time to look, which is why it is taking me so long to answer. my uncle spent his working life on an assembly line at GM. [now, he's a farmer, and working twice as hard, i think]

i buy cars that say "Ford", or "Chevy", or "GM". and as old as most of my cars were, they probably DID have American made parts.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

As always, "follow the profits" to figure out what's American (and good for America) and what's not. Ford is American because, no matter where the car was made, its profits stay in America. Ditto for the companies that Ford now owns: Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover fairly recently, even Aston Martin. Ford also has a controlling interest (33%) in Mazda. But Honda, Toyota, Subaru, and so on are foreign no matter how many US assembly plants they have, because the profits go to the parent companies overseas, and that's where oversight and control are. At least that's the yardstick I use.

Sorry for opening this can of OT worms. It's one of my hot buttons as you can see!

- Steve R St Louis

You bought a truck? Cool... can you show it to us? What color is it?

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]You bought a truck? Cool... can you show it to us? What color is it?

just - brown. i'll put up a picture as soon as we actually take possession of it.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Oh, well. I was imagining 007 glistening black or fire-engine red.

But brown is a good, sturdy, reliable color :-)...

Deirdre

Good music on long trips is a blissful thing. G. and I always bring lots of options along, and the person who isn't driving gets to pick. Fortunately our tastes are a very good match...

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]the person who isn't driving gets to pick.

i drive - i pick **grin** Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, LOTS of oldies.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

In today's global market, it makes more sense than any other version I've heard. Thanks!

Celine

, they told me they ran their shipments through a couple of cycles in an automatic dishwasher, and did some serious culling before putting the survivors out on display.>

now THAT is ingenious -- and it probably weeds out all the "weak" ones ....

Cheryl of DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass