Firstly hello, I haven't been here for a while, life has been hectic. I'm looking forward to catching up again.

A couple of questions has anyone tried the new sterling silver clay, how does it fair? Who sells it?

I'm playing with copper clay this week and I want to make my own headpins, I want to add the copper wire before firing, will it be ok and withstand the firing process?

While I'm on the subject of clay I'm making some ceramic clay bits n pieces, I use nichrome wire but don't particularly like the look, is there another wire I could use that would withstand firing to 1200C
thanks