Small Plate with Lady Bugs and Leaves #1 (Free Shipping)

Small plate hand painted with lady bugs and leaves. Doubles well as a sushi plate, tapas plate, or dessert plate. Details: ~ Apx. 8.5 inches long, 5 inches wide, about half inch tall. ~ Clear glaze inside / bottom and outside sides are sanded silky smooth. ~ Food, dishwasher, and microwave safe ~ Porcelain clay My process: Small plates! I love these plates because I can use them for everything in the house. I use them to warm stuff in the oven, for butter when entertaining and for serving dessert. I make these from a slab and them press them into foam using a retangular glass dish I found at a yard sale to get the shape and slight scalopping inside the plate. I carefully move them from the foam to a drywall drying board, then when leather hard, I trim the and round the sides. Once the plate is bone dry, I sponge it clean inside and out then paint lady bugs and leaves on the inside and bottom side of the plate. Then it goes into the kiln for its first firing. A clear glaze finishes the