Goodbye Ceramics

Sorry for being MIA for the past two months. I had been so busy with school and extracurriculars that it was ridiculous. These past few weeks, I've finally had some time to chill and relax. I just got back from Pensacola in Florida, and had the most amazing time hanging out with my friends on the beach.

I could pretty much wake up to this everyday.

The sun going down:

I finally finished my Lady Gaga necklaces and this is how one of them turned out:

Here are Henry and Chance modeling my necklaces...lol :

I love how the color of the letters turned out. As for the charms and the big beads, I had to spray paint them because gold glaze has been discontinued for a while due to lead content.

Here's another project that I used spray paint for:

And yes..it is a toilet. A toilet for baby royalty. The concept of the project was to make a functional chair, and the first thing that popped up in my mind was a toilet. I'm weird; I know, but my teacher dug the idea so I stuck to it. 

While taking ceramics, my enemy was the kiln. Anytime I put anything in there, something would always go wrong whether it was the glaze color, cracks that appeared out of no where, etc. The toilet had to be the biggest challenge for me. Everything went wrong after it got put into the kiln, but I managed to salvage it by using a lot of putty and spray paint.

The good news is that I passed the class with an A, and the bad news is that this is my only/last ceramics class :(

Ceramics is definitely a fun class that does require a bit of work, but is fun nonetheless.  I see why dental schools recommend it to pre-dental students; it definitely tests your perceptual ability.

Gaga for Inspiration

How hilarious is that?

I've been quite busy for the past few days catching up with school. I have so many things due next week and it's making me stress out a tad bit. I have 2 tests, 1 presentation, 3 lab reports, and a ceramics project due. 

Talk about overload.

For my third ceramics project, I have decided to make a Lady Gaga inspired necklace. The objective of this project is to make a souvenir.  We are to make six souvenirs, so we can give them to the six people on each of our teams. Now the funny thing about this is that there are two boys in the entire class, and they happen to be on my team. Now, what are they going to do with these Lady Gaga necklaces? Hopefully, I'm thinking they will love it and decide to wear it at least once.

Images: Sodahead, Saida

Why Lady Gaga? I love her crazy sense of fashion; she constantly amazes me with what she wears. I feel like she is one of the few people in our population that can pull off these looks. When I look at her, I feel so inspired to make something. I love the fact that it's her own style and she refuses to change it for anyone (especially with all the controversy she causes with what she wears) The origami-esque dress that she wore (to some event show) has to be one of my favorites. 

Lady Gaga also happens to be on tour in Europe right now, so I felt that it would be most appropriate to make a souvenir dedicated to her.

For the charms, I am making a lightning bolt, a disco stick (microphone), a poker card, and a bow. Each of these items correlates to one of her smash hits, excluding the bow. Can you guess which songs?

The lightning bolt for "Just Dance".

The card for "Pokerface".

And the disco stick for "Love Game".

I really want to make a telephone for her current hit "Telephone", but I'm restricted in time :(

I have to turn this in by Monday afternoon. I still have to make a massive amount of beads and put the finishing touches on the charms. I guess this means I'll be living in the ceramics studio all weekend.

Wish me luck!