africian mask

[JSimpson]

Where is the african mask tutorial? What did I miss? The last I heard we were moving in our new trailer would be back. Que pasa?

[toycarver]

I was wondering the same thing. Hope everything is going o.k. with the move.

[Marci MN]

I was wondering the same thing, I've been waiting to see her come back and finish since this is the first time I'm really watching on how to do relief carving. Maybe we should shake some M & M bags to entise her back?

Marcia

[paolo59]

Me too !!!!!!

I spent 2 Hours last night searching the tutorial everywhere, when at last I found this thread.

[Irish]

I asked BobD to move the African Mask tutorial into the Moderator's section of the board for now. It's quite safe and secure where it is and will be there as soon as I can return to carving.

When I started this thread I thought I had enough time to complete it before several major commitments came up on the calendar ... I was wrong by several weeks.

As soon as I can I will return to carving and at that time ask BobD to return the Mask thread to the main forum.

My apologizes that everyone here got caught in my error.

Susan Irish

[Irish]

So ... your African Mask is somewhere in a cardboard box under a cardboard box which is in one of the stacks of cardboards boxes ..... my knives might be in the same cardboard box but I'm not sure because I haven't seen my work/carving table in two weeks because of the cardboard boxes. I am working from a fold down TV table off the couch ... AHHH!

When this is done I am having a yard sale that specializes in getting rid of cardboard boxes - sigh!

The photo of the woods is where the new home now sits, we lost 25 mature oak trees. One of them had a stump that the back hoe operator, Larry, estimated around 4 ton.

The corner of the new home is four feet from my back door and four feet higher from the old ground level. The photo of the bulldozer was taken from my back door and I had to zoom out to get more than just the tracks.

Yes, we live in a trailor and I have heard every Trailor Trash joke there is. That trailor got us our land paid for free and clear, our son raised and through college.

Now we are once again in debt. But at least it is for an Upwardly Mooo-Bile Home

Susan

[Marci MN]

So THATS what you've been up too. WOW. I too live in a mobile home and your upgrade is in my dreams some day too. Beautiful land you have there Irish.

Ok.. I'll wait patiently and make more popcorn for this intermission.. Thanks for the update on the Mask.

Marcia

[Irish]

It had better be a BIG bowl of popcorn, Marci, as this project looks to be at least 2-3 more weeks work. Then there are all the cardboard boxes to root through.

Today's entertainment seems to be plumbing the well house and septic tank.

Susan

[Irish]

Marci,

Mike and I have been using an excellent mobile home contractor for about five years to keep our old home going. We had wanted to move up above Gettysbury, PA, there's an area there named Orrttanna that is just outside the Micheau State Park. Beautiful mountain land.

Because of our property's location, just outside the Baltimore-Washington corridor, our land alone is equal in value to the same size or larger lot with a log home there ... not a bad deal But with this recession our land just has sat on the market.

Even as we looked in PA we had told our mobile home contractor that if he came across a good deal on a double to please keep us in mind. So about three months ago he called to say the Aberdeen Testing Grounds above Baltimore was closing down it's on-base housing. Their entire mobile home park had to be moved out. We got a real steal on this one! 1905 square feet, three bedrooms, you could hold a dance in the kitchen and a party of 20 in the main bath with at least 10 in the garden tub. Marci! It has wood floors in the rec room and a fireplace!!!!

I have warned Mike that I am getting him a collar with a bell on it so that I don't lose him in all this new space.

So, we are staying put for awhile which in its own way is wonderful as I won't have to leave the land that I have grown to love over the last 32 years.

Susan

[Marci MN]

Oh Irish it all sounds so lovely!! I'd purchase it just for the tub... LOL One of our neighbors purchased a doublewide..they put in a solid slab of cement under the whole thing. She said after a winter of water pipe problems in -30* she wasnt going to deal with that again.. hence the cement. LOL


I'm in a 16 x 80 with a large porch on it. But with 100 acres next to the lake and a mile long driveway I dont feel so 'stuffed' from a mobile home. LOL

Whats nice is that you dont have to haul all your boxes so far... Amazing how you find out what you really dont need after seeing those boxes still full of things you havent seen in a year.... big old garage sale time. When we moved here we had three households in boxes.

I'll just go buy another box of microwave popcorn.. No hurry. Take your time and enjoy your new mansion!