Four of a Kind with Smurfs

[darkemeralds]

roseambr came over yesterday bearing gifts.





She made extras! Little Smurf plates out of the scraps of glass left from the big ones! Aren't they adorable? (I believe the correct term is sushi plates.) They're perfect little teabag-catching, two-cookie-serving, coffee-cup-bearing saucer-things, and I know I'm going to wish I had another pair of them.

The big plates are wonderful to eat from. The flat part in the center is large enough for real food, but small enough to mimic that tidy sense of eating from a small plate. They sit firmly and stably on the table-top; they're sturdy and heavy and not at all fragile-feeling, and yet they read as objets-d'art.

I'm still working on the design of a display shelf for them.

Comments

[lamentables]

They are awesome in conception and execution.

[darkemeralds]

Thank you. They've exceeded my hopes by a wide margin.

[kis]

They are lovely. They sound practical as well as ornamental. Gorgeous!

[darkemeralds]

Food tastes better from them, decidedly.

I'm extremely pleased.

[chalcopyrite]

Those are so cute and awesome! I love that they're all clearly of a family, but none of them are the same.

[darkemeralds]

Thanks! Yeah, that aspect of the project came out better than I'd hoped. For reasons of both design and cost, I wanted to represent approximately equal square inches of each of the main colors, but I wasn't sure how unified the set would look till I saw them all together.

[karen_jk]

They look like they cost major bucks because they are so elegant and unusual.

[darkemeralds]

They didn't cost me major bucks, but given the cost of supplies that I did pay, plus the time and skill that roseambr put in, and the use of all her tools and studio space, yeah, they'd have to retail for...well, more than they could sell for.

That's the beauty of makin' your own stuff!

[roxy]

*SIGH* They really are crazy beautiful! I'd love to see what kind of ideas you have for a display shelf!

[darkemeralds]

Thanks! (Love your icon!)

The display shelf will be a narrow piece of glass with a stop-rail, also glass, mounted to the wall with those floating-shelf clip things.

Which...will require that I paint the wall behind them and add some lights...which will probably require some electrical work.

These plates are getting really, really expensive. Good thing I'm eating a tuna sandwich off one of 'em right now. Gettin' my money's worth!

[writerscramp]

Ohhh, they turned out beautifully! You (and she) do marvelous work. Just gorgeous!

[darkemeralds]

I'll put something edible on them on the 26th and you can come over and eat!

[cat63]

LOvely. I like the way they're the same design, but with the colours swapped around for each one, so that they're clearly a set, but each one is different.

[darkemeralds]

Thanks! I was pleased with how well that concept worked out in practice. It was a bit of a crap-shoot, really.

[cat63]

It was a bit of a crap-shoot, really.

From what folk have said that's true of pretty much anything you put in a kiln. If it has unseen flaws, or even just feels grumpy it can go horribly wrong.

I'm glad your plates didn't feel grumpy and have turned out so nicely.

[vampirefan]

those plates came out just so beautifully unique! and so cool that your friend made you 2 tiny plates!

the display shelf you describe sounds really beautiful too!

\o/

[darkemeralds]

Come and eat! \o/