MaryHardingJewelry Bead Blog

Maryhardingjewelry bead blog is about making ceramic beads and other jewelry components out of clay and sometimes about how to use them in jewelry.

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

The Jewelry

I don't think that I really fell in love with pit firing until I strung my first bracelet with pit fired beads from that original fi...

Friday, February 24, 2006

How They Turned Out

The picture on the right is how the beads that were wrapped with thin copper wire turned out. They have faint shadows of lines and some ni...

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The Ice

Overnight the rain fell and turned to ice that glazed the trees, the roads, and our long driveway making it hard to walk up to the sawdus...

Sunday, January 29, 2006

The Fire

Here is the can in which the saw dust firings have been done this month. The white ball on the top is a porcelain bead that will work its w...

Bead Preparation

Today, at about 3:00 PM I began to light the fire for a new sawdust firing. It is a cold day, despite being warm for January. It is about 2...

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Above is a picture of some beads that were fired either in the pit or in a can with sawdust. The range of grays, blacks and inbetween shad...

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Pit Firing

Sally Hartman and I did our first pit firing last summer in a great spot by the river that runs through my farm. We used hay, straw. shre...

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