That figures. I think I did it correctly but I used the address of a different online album than the one that was suggested. Do I have to create an album at Shutterfly.com or did I just do something wrong?

Let's see!
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BTW, that is fantastic!

What did you use as a mold release on your face? and did it hurt? BB (*o*)

Well I'll be darned. Loren, how did you make it work? I've got about 8 more I'd like to post.

For mold release, I simply use old motor oil drained from my truck saved in an empty laundry detergent bottle. I brush it on thin with a cheap paintbrush & save the brush.

Lemme try this again.
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Love your totem! Keep 'em coming! ;D

MMW

Wait a minute... you can SEE the picture??? All I can see when I look at the post is the address. No picture.

If they're showing up, I'll go ahead and post the rest of them.

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You need to use a different code and different brackets. Try the following, but omitting the underlines, which I've added so that the code will show in the post, and adding the web address in the appropriate place. (I used to know how to code it to show, but I've forgotten.) Be sure to put in the quotation marks.

<_img src="the%20web%20address%20goes%20here" _>

Hope this helps.

Susan

Yes, that's right, GardenChicken is right ...
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Sorry, It seems every other site has something different, I forget which is what and what is which. If you don't have it exactly correct, it just won't work. Make sure you don't have any spaces in there either, and keep trying ... you'll GET IT!
Can't wait to see ALL your photos, they are very interesting.

Great carving job, love the totem and the face. I like the lines of them, the totems have a very ancient look.
Cindy

Hippy, that is FANTASTIC carving you are doing there! I am sooooo impressed!

Marly

Thank you all for your wonderful comments. I've now tried four different combinations of code, but since none of them worked when I previewed the message, I didn't bother posting them. Will play with it more later. It's time to make dinner.

Too Cool!

Is there a link to your image station gallery?
I would love to hear about your carving technique and tufa recipe..detail...details.

davo

Hi Davo. I always use a standard 1:1:1 mix of sand,portland, and peat moss. I thoroughly mix all of them dry before adding water. I've read that many people make a very dry mix & then pack it on whatever they're using as a mold by hand (using gloves of course). I've never used that method. I mix it up exactly as if I were mixing up a batch of concrete & then shovel/pour it into the mold. I take most of my projects out of the mold after 24 hours.
The faces you've seen so far were all poured into a 5 gal. spackle bucket.
I find pictures of things I'd like to make online or in catalogs and always have them on hand as a point of reference. I first use an awl to lightly scratch an outline of what I'd like to do. Then I have at it using old wood chisels, working on one area at a time (cheek/eye/eyebrow for example) until it begins to look like what it's supposed to. I never try to take off large chunks at a time. Just thin shavings, exactly as if you were working with wood. Then I move on to the other eye area, then the nose, mouth, etc. until everything is recognizable. Now I start to fine tune the roughed out features, a little here, a little there. Every 10 to 15 minutes I rinse it off with a hose. This not only removes the waste and keeps the project moist, but gives you a chance to step back and look at it from a distance. Sometimes you see things from 5 or 6 feet away that aren't apparent when up close and personal with a chisel in your hand. Here's the link to my album.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sony imagestation

Great faces. Do you start your carving as soon as you uncast them (24 hours). If not how long do you wait before starting to carve.

I'd love to have that face in my garden. He looks so happy it makes you smile inside and out :)

Diana

Yes Dellare, as soon as they come out of the mold, I go to work on them.

A castle tower

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SUCESS!!! (picture me leaning back in my office chair, both arms raised in the air, bellowing "Yeeaahhh!")

Thank you very much Alisande for taking the time to email this computer illiterate exactly what to type! If I knew how to use this keyboard like I know my way around playin' in the mud this wouldn't have been a problem in the first place... Here's a different castle. The ogre inside is the Old hippy himself.

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What the heck happened to that one? Must've run it thru a hot water cycle! (smacking head against wall) Oh jeez, I copied the addy of the thumbnail. DOH!

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A grindstone

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Sorry to bear the bad news but the photos are not coming through. Only the one of you shows up at all and you're right it is tiny.
spiderwoman

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I'm seeing them. Sometimes I get the dreaded red x, but a right click/show picture several times brings them out.

At times I really HATE computers!!!!

OH, I took the liberty of copying your links to my photobucket album and am posting your pics for you below. You photo site may have a limit as to how much viewing of your pics can be done at any given time. That might be why some pics come through some times.

Marly

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Amazing carving! Thank you for posting your wonderful creations. How did you make your lantern? How did you make your castle towers? Explain! Explain!

If you can stand another bit of online photo advice: Make sure you're in the community portion of your online album when you copy the url to paste a link into a post. Right now, when I click on the link for your album it won't let me in.

Deb

OldHippy, your carvings are AMAZING! We require details now.

Alisande, your totem is GREAT! Did you carve it? We require details from you as well.

Thanks! :)

You're the best. I don't know what's going on, that's for sure. Sometimes they show, more often than not, they don't.

I'm really bushed right now. Tomorrow, I'll dust off the digital camera & try to post pics of the mold I made for the square tower and answer some of the questions. Just poured the last of four castle walls this morning as part of a large (approx. 6' sq.) castle with walls between the towers on each corner. I plan to fill the center with topsoil for a raised bed & transplant some of my Cannas into it.

Thanks again Marly for taking the time to post my pics for me. (picture Wayne & Garth on their knees, bowing repeatedly while chanting "We're not worthy.")