Saturday, July 9, 2011

Clay





We bought clay at Hobby Lobby for some more craft making. We came home and the boys spent hours (at least 3) creating the cutest things….that’s a picture of Ryan’s little penguin and Tyler’s holding a flower in pot.

They created lots of cute things and when they were done I popped them in the oven to bake. Set the timer (supposed to bake at 250 degrees for at least 45 minutes)...but at about 10 minutes into the baking, Tyler starts shouting that the kitchen is on fire. I ran into the kitchen to find smoke billowing out of the oven. I grabbed an oven mitt, threw open the oven door and this is what I found......a melted mess!!!! See picture above.

I felt soooooo bad!!! I almost cried. You should have seen the look on their faces...they had worked so long and hard on their creations. Take a look again at Tyler’s sweet picture…..see that face…..see how happy and proud he was of his creation for me!!! I melted that flower and that sweet face (I turned it into a very sad face).

We ran to get Jon....he brought in a huge fan…we opened doors and windows to try to blow out the smoke…the picture is not blurry, that’s the smoke in the air. I had to re read the clay package. I couldn’t understand what happened. We did this project last summer and no problems. We’ll after reading the package I learned that I bought the wrong kind of clay…this was play clay, not OVEN BAKE clay. OOOPS.

Needless to say we ate out that night. And headed back to Hobby Lobby the next day to buy the correct clay.

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