Geez,Rick are you planning a take over with all of that stuff?I do agree with you about city living.My son and I are looking at 15 acres on the bayou.A big difference from the cookie cutter tract home I live in. I can sit at the kitchen table and hand a plate of bisquits to my neighbors in their bedroom.What are you working on. I am inrtigued.

My wife and I are currently working on faces.We have a few molds that we bought.We pour them,sometimes with colour ,and others not.My wife does the painting .We just got into Modern Masters Metal Effects paints(www.modernmastersinc.com)with some interesting results.And,as i said,we put glass eyes into just about all of the masks.
With our own moldmaking on the horizon,we'll expand into such things as logends for the patterns.these could be cafe tabletops,or fontaintops(saw one similar in Napa Valley,home of the ultimate yuppie).And fountains,of course.
But,that's just the beginning.With space and time,we're only limited by our imagination.Congrats on your property looksee.Hope all goes well.So,happy mudding!
Cheers

Rick Grace has at least two 800 numbers.
One for their main office back east and one for their plant in Edmonton.
I can email these to you if you don't have them.

Hey Rick, do you have to rub it in? I mean the Dark Skies! I would love to live under it too, or on a Gulf island even in a cabin and make my living there but my profession is to work with people in the city. I am too old to change it and too young to retire.But don't feel sorry for us, there are worst places to live in than Vancouver! I see the mountains and the water from my living room, have a ravine and creek next to the house, a black bear came to our back yard 3 weeks ago for the bird seed ( cold spring).
I have 80-90 rhododendrons and azaleas,big cedar, fir,pine trees, 16 Japanese Maples, many other shrubs and perennials. Of course the big suppliers are in the industrial part of the city.
By the way, a very big and good store for pottery supply is The Green Barn in Langley, just off from Hwy 1.

My question, do you know a place to buy molds, not mail order in Great Vancouver? I would appriciate your help.

Andrea

Andrea-only one bear?no elk?
Anyway...the molds that I've got are not local;the nearest is Simcoe,Ontario.All that I have are E-Bay,where the variety is good.
I'm going to start making molds in the near future.Spent the bucks on the moldmaking stuff from Fibre-Tek in Burnaby.If there is a local supplier,I wish I knew about it.They keep themselves pretty quiet.
If you do look at E-Bay for the molds,the suggestion I have is look for the heaviest gauge of plastic,if you're looking to do a lot of pieces from your mold.I've got one greenman where the plastic is starting to crack from my use.And I use chunks of foam underneath to cushion them a little,before vibrating them.I'm not a fan,personally,of the molds that you can get at say Michael's,because they aren't very durable.They're a very thin plastic that doesn't support itself well when filled with concrete.You could use sand(I've done it and still do with a couple of my masks that I DID buy from a craft store)for these,but if your intention is to pour every day or so,no way can they stand up to vibration.And,removing the finished piece requirea a LOT more care than with the heavier,E-Bay ones that I've bought.I'll be making Urethane molds with fibreglas backing,and still keeping my eye on E-Bay.There are not enough weird faces out there yet.Guess we should wait to see what TANGO88 has coming on stream,eh?
Cheers from the wilds of Garden Bay-and,yes,there is a Garden Bay on the ocean.

Thanks Rick, that was quick replay! I will look around, it is just hobby, I make things for my garden .I have a big concrete retaining wall ( 20 ft. long 8-3 ft. high) and I loved the purple wall at L&L, will do something to put on ours, green-girl, mirror, etc. Even cheep mold will do to try.
( no elk, just deer, coyote, squirrels and amazing variety of birds)

Andrea

For a mold that might help,look at gostatue on E-Bay.They had quite a few frame molds for mirrors,etc.I'm looking at doing that sort of thing this winter,when I have time.And,you're right,L&L does inspire.
Oh,and as to those nasty city critters.Watch out for those squirrels-I think that they're always watching...just waiting 'til your back is turned,and then...it's too awful to think about!