Playing with Fire

Belated Christmas craft post!  The girls and I set some ornaments on fire!  I saw this on Pinterest from It's Always Autumn.  I followed her directions and supplies list, so if you have questions about how it was done, go there.  If you want to come over and make some more with us, just let me know and we'll set some more things on fire together.  It will be fun. We will singe our eyebrows.

The ornaments have to be glazed porcelain.  I inadvertently bought unglazed ones and the alcohol ink just got absorbed right into them (if I ever do marbling again, I think I'll try to marble those unglazed ornaments.   Until then they've joined the Craft Room Abyss.). We made stars, rounds, and baubles.  I can't think of another description for the third shape.  Bauble.  You know what I mean?

Here they are putting the drip drops of color onto the ornaments.

The directions seemed to suggest that we should only do two colors.  I tried to tell the girls that, but, as you can see in the above photo, they went for full color saturation.  (That's the bauble shape I was telling you about!). Luckily we only had six colors.

Then we squirted them with alcohol, stepped back, and I lit them on fire.  

It was really fun.  We made an initial batch of 12, I think, but some broke so I had to order some more.  Then we tried it again and invited the neighbors over to set things on fire with us.   I would not recommend using the tin foil directly on the table as I did above.  Use a lipped baking tray.  That's smarter.  I didn't ruin the table or anything, but the alcohol should be more contained.

Each one was so unique.  Can you believe that there were no tears shed while actually doing this craft?  It was amazing.  One of us always ends up crying when crafting together.  The tears came later when I asked them to sign their names on the back.

For the signing, we used a Sharpie, but not a regular one.  This Sharpie is maybe oil based.  I can't remember and I can never keep track of where I hide this pen so I can't find it to tell you.  Anyway, in the end all of the ornaments were signed by the children themselves.  I added the year.

Sometimes the backs were just as pretty as the fronts.

And how do they look like on the tree?  They look glorious on the tree: