Kiln Fired Glass: The Results

My butter dish from yesterday's post has now been fired and my soap dish is finished too -
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I drew on some scratchy black outlines to mimic the pen I used in the original doodled design.

The red glass also got darker after the 2nd and 3rd firings.

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I love how from different angles, the dark lines and red shapes stop matching up properly.

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As promised - with finest butter! I did have to cut it in half as my dish couldn't be made big enough to hold a whole half pound of butter.

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For the soap dish, we used a layer of Vanilla for the background colour as a test run with white was too blue and cold. The blue speckles you see are made from light turquoise frit (heat up some glass really hot and drop it into cold water - it crumbles to make frit) which has had a layer of colourless reactive glass laid over the top - this is what gives the darker browny purple edges to the melted frit droplets.

I think it's just gorgeous the way it transforms!

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Here we have a bar of Dove soap modelling the dish - this is my favourite soap and also the reason the frit was arranged in an oval.

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Project completed.

I now have two beautiful and fully functional glass dishes to customise my room in unniversity halls!

-sb