You are obviously not my target audience

@@StephFuses I’m sure anyone who doesn’t like your videos isn’t your targeted audience. I’ve investigated other videos related to similar topics and they’re decent in my opinion. You talk a lot instead of showing process and results which is the main thing I’m here for.

I have not, but my friend Linda of @ramprateart has, and she's used white as a background. It makes the blue pop and look beautiful!

I tried it on clear and on white. Worked great and I used next to nothing from the baggie. It definitely will last a long time! Is there a way to add photos here?

I go to 1485 or thereabouts. My kiln is such a mess, it's 50 degrees too hot, takes forever to get to full fuse temp, so I officially go to 1390 on my display, which is 1440, because it'll take 4 hours to go between 1225 and 1390, even at 400-600 per hour. In my small kiln though, it's 1485, which is more of a proper fuse.

I've never used copper sulfate, but I can look into it. As to fatter hearts, pile on the clear! I make nnice fat hearts all the time. You can run a wire through, I recommend looking for nichrome wire, or high temp wire on Amazon and picking it up in a roll, not in the little hooks. It'll take some trial and error to get it right, but I'm sure you'll get it!

turns out so pretty!

somewhere I have the tiny baggie of dust too!

Thanks!!

I'm glad the video that was linked helped!

Is your chalk coloured? It could be the binders keeping the chalk together burning off

I have not done a video on this.. yet!

I love this idea!

Yeah, it was a confidence vampire, you're absoutely right. But, I did another show a few weks later, and saw $167, so that made up for it!

I made them! I got my inspiration and know how from this video by @Camryn's Cute Creations, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/isxhldqovtjGpok.html And then I went to vistaprint, found the tags I liked, and used Canva to make them. then I haD vistaprint make them

Thanks, they're fabulous

I really should have done that, you're right. I have the brain of a squirrel some days. What I talked about bringing, I ended up mostly not bringing too. But, I can show you what the booth looked like. At this link (which is cued up for the right time), there's about 20 seconds of photos of the booth itself, with everyting I brought. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbN8n8Z0r8fHmY0.htmlsi=aQjVJCwGDP8U2gcI&t=46

Found them! Back of my other car!

And in Oregon, we appreciate good weather, so no one wanted to be inside.

Hoping next year is better. I'm going to do a show in August too!

@@StephFuses I will pray that all goes great for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Excellent advice!

That's a great idea! I'll try that first

I'm so glad! I try to be entertaining, but I'm also just being myself.

I took some excedrin, drank a ton of water, and took a nap after filming that, and felt a lot better. Then I had some dinner and watched Fallout, and felt much better. I actually live out of OC in the Redland area, and out of there, even. How's fusing going for you?

I can't give my mom too many, she fuses too! But all my friend have glass, and I'm running out of space, lol. I sell online, but only a few pieces, because glass is just so dang hard to photograph.

@@StephFuses Do you find craft fairs and markets worth your time?

I didn't even think about telling you while I was there!

Yes! time to get them into use!

Any time!

glad you like it!

All my kilns are paragons. 2 are fiber (14" and 16", use household current) and the smallest, a vitrigraph kiln, is brick. You can use whatever brand of kiln you can get your hands on, but I highly recommend anything with a digital controller. It will keep you from tearing your hair out babysitting the entire fusing cycle.

The ones I made I don't know. I do want to make a couple mobiles, and I'm thinking about taking the ones that are about 5", and putting a layer of glass in them, and then slumping them into bowls. and a few I want to fuse a pane of 2mm clear to the back of, and then make suncatchers with.

the 9 heart mold comes from Firelite Forms, it's mold #7055. www.fireliteforms.com/product/7055

never ever!

Right now the molds aren't widely available, Glass and Stone is making as many as they can, but they're a small place. They release batches of about 100 at a time. If you go to glassandstone.art/ and scroll to the bottom, you can sign up for their newsletter. They post about 24 hours in advance when they're going to be selling molds. I recommend also creating an account on the website and setting your address and billing info, so when you do get an option to buy, you add to cart, click check out, and you're done. They're selling out in about 2-3 minutes right now.

I hope so too!

I've used the chalk 3 times so far and been fine. I do know eventually it will crumble, but it depends on the heat you're taking it to, how you treat it, how humid your workspace is, etc.

I have one of those! I used a vice. But it's buried on my table at the moment