See, I told You There Is No Downside to Being Related to the Boss

That headline comes from the Mikey of course, because if you asked the product of that gene pool you may not necessarily agree (after all as Gary Brown so eloquently noted in a previous blog comment, the man can't even spell weiner correctly). But it does allow for me to goof around and occasionally create and share some interesting stuff- 
Maximizing a 12x12-
Finally getting Spectrum's Blackberry Cream Opal Art back in stock (sorry Kat) I thought we'd show off this glass and some new/small molds (they are easiest to fit in a small kiln such as Coneart's B3K114). Using a single 12x12, I was able to make four small plates by strategically (I've also been reading Conrad Black) laying out the molds. Below is a photo pictorial of the process... 
Here's the molds and the glass:

The glass cut to the mold size (the only scrap left over were the two pieces on the right):

The plates were then capped in clear and fired with a long bubble squeeze to minimize trapping bubbles which is more prone to happen with OpalArt: 

The pieces were then loaded back into the kiln and slumped to give this final outcome:

Not bad- four plates out of a single sale square!