2nd year

Need to get my comissions out of the way so I can really focus on my work.

Really getting in to developing my ideas now.

Huzzah! My modules have finally been sorted out! It’s great that I pay loads of money without any kind of help or funding to be at this extremely well-organised establishment…

Anyway, I now have print-outs of my research images (thankyou daddys work, I couldn’t afford to pay for print-outs at uni) and begun the tedious process of sticking them all in to my sketchbook. Now I can start with the actual idea development. I think I must lock myself in a room to make myself do it. Currently I just have loads of ideas buzzing around in my head which I want to go straight in to the hotshop and make so, obviously, when I get to the hotshop without a drawing/plan I completely forget what Im there to do. I have been making some small shiny teacups lately though. I think my blowing skills are improving slowly. Teacups are actually related to my project, it’s not entirely twatting about whilst thinking about the mad-hatters teaparty.

Jelly baby status: a pain in the bum. Taking ages to hand-polish the ridges out of him. Also the acid-dipping place has closed. Great timing.

Just had a week confined to the house because of food poisoning. I was bored out of my tiny mind, all I did was throw up and sleep… also a few less pleasent things.

Back to uni, and I need to catch up, or start properly.

Coldworking the Jelly baby is hard work, I have named him Jeremy.

Decals are interesting.

I’m testing three different types of cover-coat at the moment, fluxed high-firing, fluxed low-firing and unfluxed.

Just trying to get the covercoat to burn away without distorting the image is the first challenge.

They are having trouble getting the colour prints wihout the final product fading so I am sticking to black images for the moment.

Been doing some interesting tests with decals since we (the uni) got a new decal printer.

Results to follow shortly.

Jelly baby is out!He just needs some polishing up now! :D