Kiln Wash Recipe? Etc...

Spent some time this weekend etching words onto bowls.  These are for a friend, Sarah who is just wonderful.  I'm discovering that this whole proces just takes well, awhile when a whole kiln is needed to fire some work.  With all that said, I'm preparing for another bisque firing in part so I can put in some EPK to calcify it.  I need to make kiln wash.  Found John Britt's advice about that online yet I didn't have the calcified EPK.  First things first.  Gosh, just realized I don't have alumina hydrate either.  Will get some this Friday when I'm in Charlotte. 

Kiln Wash Recipe

50% alumina hydrate

25% calcined EPK kaolin

25% EPK kaolin

Or is there another kiln wash recipe that you recommend? 

 Meanwhile I almost didn't put up this blurry picture.  There really is a bird (white in the pic) that is holding onto the pole, getting ready to pick up some suet.  That's hot pepper suet; the squirrels are relentless here.  I may have just finally found some suet that the squirrels don't eat, thanks to a good friend.  Lucky me!

 Newest form.  It's a bowl that's a bit deeper than the other ones I've made thus far.  Thrown with 4 lbs. of clay.  Wanted to trim it today yet I have a bad cold and don't feel well.  Work keeps me busy and the additional responsibilities with my boss gone wears out my mind- too much to think about!

So, slowly but surely, as if a tortoise, my shelves are filling up with a second load of pots ready waiting for a bisque firing.  May even make a birdbath out of the bowl mold I made last weekend when my parents visited.  The good news is that I see light at the end of this long haul.  Soon I'll make some test glaze batches.  Kiln wash first.  Thanks for all your comments and encouragement!  It really helps.