craftgrrl | Let's see where this newfound confidence gets me, huh?

Hallo all. Me again. The one who posted about the DragonMoons set and all that. I just wanted to send another cry out to the lot of you for your marvelous spirit and support in this community. I meant what I said in that post...you have made a big difference, at least to me. I'm glad for the chances I've been given to return the favor! I do hope this isn't deemed inappropriate, but a lot of you did say you wanted me to post when I was finally starting to do things officially. Well, my business site isn't up yet, but thanks to the amazing feedback I got on my work, I decided to run a little test and auction off the aforementioned set on e-bay. I kept scaring myself out of going through with it, but last night I read through all the comments to my posts, and that gave me the oomph and the confidence to finally just take the plunge. ::grins:: I won't list my auction link here...I think that's pushing the boundaries a bit...but if you or someone you know might truly be interested, you can find my semi-frenzied linkage in my own LJ. We'll see if the world at large thinks you're right about me. ;-)

So that this isn't all about that...

My splendiferous husband just got me, for my birthday, a kiln and some silver clay from this website. Has anyone here had the chance to work with this stuff? My head is spinning with the possibilities, but the clay really is too expensive to just experiment with. I was wondering what people had tried doing, tried "implanting", what worked, what didn't, etc. For example...some kinds of glass can be "implanted", some can't...I guess it says somewhere that tempered glass can't. But most glass things you find, beads, for example, don't say what manner of glass they are. They just say that they are glass. So do I have to stick beads in there, one by one, and wait to see if they blow up? And...it lists some stones, largely synthetic, that can be fired in the kiln...but is that truly all? And...does the fired silver clay actually bond to any sterling fittings "implanted" in it, or does the clay have to brace/surround the fitting somehow? Lots of questions, and I can't begin seeking my own answers until I get a chance to buy some bricks to make a fire-proof surface...

Thanks in advance to any with advice! I'm so excited about my new toy! I never expected to really be able to work with silver! :-D