I was asked by a friend of mine to make some whiskey glasses for her 9th anniversary. I've recently learned that the gift for 9th anniversary is pottery, who knew (and how did I miss this for my 9th anniversary?!). I ended up glazing them the night after we took Boris to the vet. I remember very little of that night, but I really needed to do something to not be a puddle on the floor. So I glazed. In retrospect, making something with clay would have been less risky. Almost everything came out ok, but the anniversay present did not. I ended up with bleeding hearts. Since I was on a time crunch I didn't have time to remake from scratch. I was just going to send the two that worked, but then I had an idea - luster!

I've never done a luster firing before, but I had a pile of pottery that wasn't popping. I picked some out and tried my hand at luster and decals. Overall pleased with the results and I learned not to over apply white gold.

Bleeding hearts	With mother of pearl and white gold luster
With mother of pearl and white gold luster	With mother of pearl and white gold luster
Mother of Pearl	Sanbao decal
White Gold	White Gold and Sanbao decal
Sanbao decal	Mother of pearl
White Gold	Sanbao decal
Sanbao decal	Mother of Pearl
Sanbao decal	Sanbao decal and Mother of Pearl on the rose stamp