Porcelain experiments

So I've been playing with porcelain and glass and these are my creations so far. I'm a little disappointed in how gray the clay turns out. After the bisque fire (the low firing that you do before glazing) they were bright white but once I fired to temp they were all gray. Ok for the little cups but the glass items were suppose to be for pendants but I don't love them. Guess I have to buy more clay to play with. I was experimenting with a cone 6 clay since I don't want to wear out my kiln trying to fire to cone 10.

If that all seems like gibberish talk to you that's ok. Its gibberish to me too but its like speaking the same language as your dishwasher. I want to wash my dishes on pots and pans with a steam dry and jet dry sparkle wash. See... same thing.  All that really matters is how they look when you open the lid. 

The bird cup is inspired by this artist on etsy. Love her stuff.  I couldn't help but do a bird. I think I might be kindred spirits with this woman as she uses bikes and birds in her work also. Now if only she did silverware on the cups. But then where would that leave me and my work.