#dusky pink

[ai-satin-chic]

Only Wednesday? Pink Wednesday made it slightly more bearable.

[harrietmjones]

Thank you for the tag @lovepollution. 🥰

make a moodboard with…your fav celeb, your fav quote, a cute outfit, your fav drink, your fav color, your fav place, your fav hobby, your fav flowers, and your fav book

(Just wanted to say, that some of these change on the regular but for now, they’re all correct. Totally struggled with fave celeb ngl, so decided on two who make me laugh, together and separately!)

Tagging: @popsworth, @markwatneyandenesemble, @tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine, @escapismqueen, @eliotqueliot, @wonderlandleighleigh, @theycallme-thejackal, @lesliesknopes, @asofterhibou and @bekindreblog and whoever wants a go. ☺️

[delusions-of-glamour]

Dolce & Gabbana rose top-handle bag ♡

[rapunzelita]

Lost Cherry and Rose Prick 

Gorgeous candle names  ♡

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[life-spire]

@Albina White

[frangipanidownunder]

Tagged by @baronessblixen to post nine photos of my pets from my camera roll. Enjoy.

[wannaberaccoon]

[moolric-ceramics]

Tin/chrome pink earthenware glaze

I got a new book recently, Colour in Glazes by Linda Bloomfield and I’m finally getting some glaze recipes to use for earthenware that don’t rely on commercial stains.

This glaze recipe relies on an interesting reaction between tin, chrome and whiting (calcium carbonate). Basically, if tin and chrome are in a glaze, it starts off green, and as you add whiting, it turns pink. For these test tiles I used 10%, 15% and 20% whiting. Obviously even 10% was enough to turn it pink and I have done some more test tiles with far less whiting. 

I’m hoping to get 2 glazes, 1 green and 1 pink, that can be combined together to get nice gradients.

I actually had 2 other variables as well. The recipe just said calcium borate frit, and I had 3 different ones which might have been appropriate. And it also said chrome oxide as the source of chrome, but I only have the tiniest amount of that. I had lots of iron chromate though, so I tried that as well.

Recipe

39      Calcium borate frit (3124, 3271, 4108) 27      Soda feldspar 23      Silica 6        Kaolin 5        Tin oxide  +0.1  Chrome oxide/iron chromate  +       Whiting

Test Grid

I decided the best ones were the 3 in the top picture - AB, AZ and AK. They were the ones with the best surface and the least pitting. Though I think it was the excessive whiting that caused the pitting.

AZ was the one I decided to do further tests with. I also did these tests on stoneware clay, because my earthenware test tiles weren’t ready, but my further tests were done on 3 different types of earthenware clay.