Give or take, about $500 - $600 new. I’d recommend an electric kiln with an 11 1/4" x 9" interior or bigger. Good for most medium-small sized dinnerware and stuff. It’s the size I use most often.
Used kilns are cheaper, and should work fine as well. Cress, Olympic and Paragon and good brands. (I favor Cress.)
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Once heard a great quote about this… “God only made a few perfect heads and on the rest he put hair.”
Yeah, but you don’t understand. I’m really, really smug about it. We’re talking total prick here.
So, do you have a t-shirt or something? Smugness of this magnitute deserves some recognition.
That’s great! Now if only “God only made a few perfect backs/asses and on the rest he put hair” applied to me as well.
But alas, Atreyu, she’s married. And as I’m in the same city (Tallahassee) as She of the Off-Limits Cute-ness, I can feel your pain even more poignantly. 
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BTW, Jetgirl, did you do the drawings that are on your website?
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Back to the tOPic… Smug…
I can play the piano – also having stuck with it from grade school (kudos to you, Luka) – and majored in it, among other things, in college.
FSU beat up on UF on the football field a week and a half ago – still feeling somewhat smug about that. Bragging rights in Tallahassee this year over those of the Gator-ly persuasion…
And I can dance rather well, and have a good lead – in all sorts of partner dances (West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Cha-Cha, Two-Step, Hustle, etc. – swing, ballroom, country, various…)
Well, unless your father is a dentist, and he did your braces when you were in junior high, and since your brother followed in his footsteps, you won’t have the need for dental insurance for a long time.
(by “your”, I of course mean “my”).
First, let me start out with a hearty Go Noles!
Yes, I did draw all the pictures on my site (the ones in the album, at least)
And I’d say that the ability to dance well is definitely cause for smugness.
I took cotillion for 4 years and I’m pretty happy with the results.
Damn. I’m really not an arrogant cocky wanker, but I’m sure beginning to sound like it, thinking of all the things I could possible be smug about!
Okay. I’ll cancel it out with something I am definitely not smug about: I’m quite incredibly horrid at math. There. I’ve said it.
Now you can resume with your grinning and guffawing.
::curtseys::
Carry on!
Cool. Lots of crafty people around. The thing is I’m only 20 (which is why I said my age group) I know pretty much no one who has done any of that since home economics in junior high who is my age.
22 here. I know of exactly one other person my age (or close) that even knows how to sew! (I married him, btw!)
I’m an old fogey of 28
Well, I’m good at math, but I’m totally inept when it comes to sewing… even a button…
Perhaps we need a thread for “Things you couldn’t possibly even begin to feel smug about”.
(BTW, I like the drawings, especially the one with the filename “wolfdraw”)
I’m smug about my ability to pick hobbies up and do things as I go along. I always adapt recipes, design things myself, and I also sew (I’m 25). I used to show horses, so I sewed most of my show clothes. Major smugness when someone complimented my outfit and asked where I bought it.
I’m also a bit smug in that I think I have a good sense of style, but maybe everyone’s just lying to me.
Well, my very first thread and it went to two pages. Now I really have something to feel smug about! 
I used to be smug about the fact that I was one of those people whom everybody asked teir weird questions to and I always had the right answers. My smugness left when I came here, but people I know still ask me all of their questions and The Straight Dope just helps me answer more of them.
I also know how to sew,hand sew of course,Crochet,knit,cross-stitch, and plastic canvas.
I am thirteen years old, and I work hard in Advanced Communications (basically advanced English and Reading).
I am known as MissDictionary by my classmates, because I can write, spell and speak at a college level. I read the Lord of the Rings in one week.
I know I’m bragging, but isn’t that what feeling smug is all about?
SideLight: If anybody was involved in the Witchblade message boards, I was on there. I dropped off suddenly, because the whole thing snowballed and I just didn’t care. Anyway, I posted as MissDictionary. Just thought you’d like to know.
I was like that at your age too, believe it or not, alot of people hated me for some reason so I never got to brag. IThinkNot, are you in a gifted program at your school?
Flowerchild:
Yes. There’s Advanced Math, too, but I believe that hemisphere of my brain was destroyed to some extent as a child.
By the way, my Message Board Name comes from a joke I heard in Advanced Comm. Ready? Here we go:
So Renee DesCartes walks into a bar.
He orders a beer.
He drinks it.
The bartender says, “Would you like another, sir?”
Renee DesCartes responds, “I think not.”
And he promptly disappears!
HA! I just LOVE that!
I have no debt.
I just got 96 percentile and 200 points on my PSATs. I also got a letter from Drake university that said “we are impressed by your exceptional abilities” or some such thing.
I’m a sophomore in an inner city public high school, too. I’m smug about going to a good school like that, instead of the awful all-girls’ Catholic school I went to last year.