Well, baby bear (otherwise known as my new kiln) is chugging away on her maiden firing.  Empty kiln today, just so I can get an idea of the time frame I’m looking at, but then tomorrow she’ll have some company. 

Since she’s parked right next to my big kiln down in the garage, I thought I’d post a side by side comparison.

Now you can understand why it takes so long between firings.  The dimensions of the large kiln are 23″ across by 28.5″ deep.    Baby kiln is 8″x8″x6.5″.   Here’s another comparison photo for you:

Keep in mind that that kiln shelf is about 10″ off the floor of the kiln.  How may pendants do you think it would fire????

I’m tickled that I can actually fire today.  I’ve been having some “issues” with electronic equipment lately.  You notice that the picture quality above isn’t great??  My camera took a short fall on Christmas, but it was enough so that it won’t power on.  I borrowed a camera from my mother, but it doesn’t seem to have macro.  I’ll have to fumble along using my handycam for pictures, so the quality will suffer.  Sigh… My laptop also seems to be quite sluggish as well, so that will need some tlc too. 

Well, I’m off to track the temp in the kiln.  Be good, and go Pats!