Stupid question - but one to which I do not know the answer!

[Robert]

like all of the newbie mistakes - which I would rather much like to bypass as I don't have the money to go wasting mugs or ink!

Ah, but you have to make all the mistakes in the beginning. Only by wasting several boxes of mugs and looking at a deficit in your bank balance do you get that sense of "achievement" when it all works right!

Maybe so, but I would like to see the deficit in the bank balance to be as minimal as possible
I have so far used only 4 mugs. The 4th is satisfactory and posted earlier in the post. Most of the mistakes I have already avoided through use of this forum which is by far much cheaper than a few boxes of mugs...my satisfaction and sense of achievement will not be the deficit in the bank balance, but rather the credit in there. That's not to say though that my 5th mug will turn out the same. I'm sure I have many many more lessons to learn

[JSR]

like all of the newbie mistakes - which I would rather much like to bypass as I don't have the money to go wasting mugs or ink!

Ah, but you have to make all the mistakes in the beginning. Only by wasting several boxes of mugs and looking at a deficit in your bank balance do you get that sense of "achievement" when it all works right!

Maybe so, but I would like to see the deficit in the bank balance to be as minimal as possible
I have so far used only 4 mugs. The 4th is satisfactory and posted earlier in the post. Most of the mistakes I have already avoided through use of this forum which is by far much cheaper than a few boxes of mugs...my satisfaction and sense of achievement will not be the deficit in the bank balance, but rather the credit in there. That's not to say though that my 5th mug will turn out the same. I'm sure I have many many more lessons to learn

Ah, I still remember my first month. There were no forums like this back in those days and I had no help with even the simplest of things. I must have worked through a whole box of mugs trying to work out why the colours wouldn't come out even remotely right.

Them were the days...

LOL!

[Robert]

I can see how you would have that sense of achievement after that - but I bet you have never been so frustrated as then. There's nothing worse when you have an issue, google it, and nothing comes up.

[JSR]

I can see how you would have that sense of achievement after that - but I bet you have never been so frustrated as then. There's nothing worse when you have an issue, google it, and nothing comes up.

That's true. You know nothing can be as bad as that, so you tend not to get too wound up when things don't immediately go right.