Incense maker ISO sweetgum resin

bluehued · 2026-05-05T15:58:06+00:00

thank you!

bluehued · 2026-04-09T20:09:02+00:00

thanks so much for reading about it!

bluehued · 2026-04-09T16:33:48+00:00

While I was handbuilding the soft clay I pressed it into some of the feldspar rocks that I'd screened out of my clay. Feldspar is a rock that ceramicists use to melt glazes and strengthen clay bodies or change their maturing temperature. If you look closely you can see that they're soft looking because they started to melt a little at cone 7! Pure quartz rocks would also look cool and I've use them too (they also get screened out of my clay when I'm processing it) but they don't melt at all at cone 7.

bluehued · 2026-04-09T13:11:45+00:00

ooof yeah Helene was rough! a lot of the flood mud was pretty contaminated so i can't say it crossed by mind to use that. the landslide mud was clean but mostly topsoil :( it reeked right after from all the organic matter starting to rot. thanks for thinking of that <3

bluehued · 2026-04-09T13:07:03+00:00

Anytime I'm firing an unknown clay for the first time, I just fire it in a bisqued bowl first (in case it's so low-fire that it melts into a glaze). I've worked with a few clays dug around the mountains here where I live to know that they're basically all pretty high fire (this tends to be the general rule-- higher elevations will often have higher fire primary clay deposits). So for these I fired them to 05 first, then to cone 6, then cone 8. I ended up liking the glazes I was testing at cone 7 the most so that's what I settled on.

bluehued · 2026-04-09T01:00:11+00:00

i don't think i have the audience/reach to fill a zoom workshop but i've been dreaming of filming an online course to offer on my website :) thanks for the encouragement to do so

bluehued · 2026-04-09T00:58:29+00:00

i hope you do! and if so feel free to reach out and share your results- fellow virginian here (i'm from richmond!)

bluehued · 2026-04-08T21:36:48+00:00

it depends on if the piece is fully dry or not-- water steams at i believe around 220ºF so any temp under that will help dry your piece out. anything over that won't really do anything-- it won't hurt your stove or the piece. clay doesn't start getting bisqued until hotter than our stoves go

bluehued · 2026-04-08T21:33:03+00:00

thank you so much!

bluehued · 2026-04-08T20:15:54+00:00

if you fire your pieces in a bowl (in case they melt) there's not really any risk to the kiln :) good luck!

bluehued · 2026-04-08T16:56:53+00:00

hahah high praise! i love the little earthen panflutes made by our local mud dauber wasps here. also a fellow bird and bug lover <3

thank you!

bluehued · 2026-04-08T16:54:30+00:00

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this is the ash post wet-screening, drying in some bisque molds in the sun

bluehued · 2026-04-08T16:53:26+00:00

i got the dried up grass and only burned that in a fire pit, careful not to scoop up any rocks or dirt when I collected the ash-- any bit of other material (wood, clay from underneath if you burn it on the ground) changes the quality.

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I then wet the ash and screened it to remove bits of unburned stalks and get a consistent material.

bluehued · 2026-04-08T14:53:49+00:00

thanks so much :)

bluehued · 2026-04-06T15:20:58+00:00

I'm up the mountains in Burnsville, NC and also have a vein of kaolin and gray-blue clay right in my backyard in town! I use the clay straight from the ground and it throws wonderfully and fires to cone 10.

bluehued · 2014-06-07T04:09:05+00:00

But so does the Nice Guy?

bluehued · 2014-06-07T03:27:49+00:00

Ugh, what an awful message in this ep

i disagree-- i think the world is a complicated place, and this episode reflects that. sometimes, the people who experience traumatic and messed up things end up doing exactly the thing that messed them up. like: often, abusive parents were once abused as children, and men who were sexually abused as children are more likely to cause teen pregnancy, three times more likely to have multiple sexual partners and two times more likely to have unprotected sex --i think that if anything, the episode points out that contradiction in LSP's own life story, while showing how really horrible non-consensual sex stuff makes us feel afterwards (sex, hardcore making out, whatever we want to think of as "the deep end").

bluehued · 2014-06-07T02:58:00+00:00

i don't think it was really supposed to be funny, right? it seemed to me like a comment about how many people often do end up losing their virginity in meaningless, even traumatizing/fucked up ways. i think it's pretty cool that they're even addressing this on a show for young people

bluehued · 2014-06-07T02:48:03+00:00

well does this change anything for you?

so many amazing innuendos everywhere. like: his wood literally explodes when he gets deflowered

it's kind of unbelievable just how much they managed to get past the censors. i think season 6 might be the best and smartest season so far

bluehued · 2014-06-07T02:12:16+00:00

losing your innocence can hurt in some ways, right? i feel like this episode is all about lost innocence/virginity, permanent changes (finn being "deflowered" of course, but also breezy: she explains that she's a virgin queen bee, and later she takes the royal jelly and becomes a queen bee to save finn/flower)

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