Apple Rose Cottage copy of

How exciting, my nightlights are for sale in this charming little place in Gold Hill, Oregon. Barbara, the wonderful owner of Apple Rose Cottage has an "etsy gallery" room where members of the Rogue Valley etsy group can offer their wares. Check out her facebook page at Apple Rose Cottage.  Stop by if you are in the area, but allow lots of time, she has so much fun stuff!

This is my collection there so far:

Night light number 2 - the flame

Several warm colors of ink blended into Translucent Pardo Art Clay.  A large teardrop Fat Daddio's cookie cutter was used for the shape.  I just bent it slightly after cutting it out to give it a slight wave.

I'm happy with the results.

Here is how the back looks/works:

My first night light looked like a dog

Not that I don't like dogs, but geez! It wasn't suppose to look like a dachshund!

I was pretty happy with how it came out, but I couldn't get over the dog thing.  Plus the extruded clay was  wonky, I kept getting finger nail marks on it, so I decided to use a little tool and dimple it.  And there were some minor gaps again between the framing strips and the translucent.  But I did like the combination of jungle and celery again! 

So I took it apart.  I was a little disheartened at how easily it came apart.  I had cured the flat pieces first and then put them together with the framing strips to cure again.  I did have trouble getting the the strips to stick to the cured flat pieces.  A new engineering problem.  

So when I reworked the design, I put it together using liquid translucent to bind the pieces.  Worked like a charm.  

Lesson learned: Uncured clay adheres fine to uncured clay.  Uncured clay to cured clay? not so much.