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My tray set is used for food, specifically milk and cookies. You can drink out of the "milk carton" with a straw because I put a hole in the lid. I came up with my idea because I remembered that once, I saw a cup that had a hole in it to put your cookies but I didn't want to copy their idea so I just made a cookie plate. I had the idea of the milk carton after I made the cookie plate. I wanted it to be completely functioning as a cup and it worked out pretty well. I started by rolling a slab of clay and placed it over a styrofoam plate. I smoothed it out with a sponge and used the back of a ribbon tool to make the holes for "chocolate chips." While that was firing, I rolled clay to cut and make the cup of the milk carton. I cut rectangles to make the sides and a square to make the bottom. I slipped and scored to put them together then started the lid. I made a square and triangles to make the lid and then slipped and scored those together. I carved the word "milk" in the lid and on the side of the cup with the back of a ribbon tool. I used a needle tool to carve the outline of a cow that I printed out. I fired that and started painting the cookie plate. I painted it brown and the chocolate chips a darker brown. When it came out of the kiln, the chocolate chips weren't dark enough and I had to add black to them and fire them again, painted more black. I painted the milk carton inside blue, and I did the outline of the cow in black underglaze but I got underglaze all over the rest of the carton and it got dark underglaze on it. My friend said that it looked cool and rustic so I decided to keep going because I knew it would be hard to get rid of it. I painted the words milk blue and glaze fired it.
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