[Cob] Hello and introduction

[Jill Hogan]

The first one will be cob as it is the medium I am most sure of, but 
ultimately hope to do wattle and daub, adobe, etc maybe even a bottle 
house. This is play time. A friend does amazing mosaics so maybe a 
"Gaudi" house.

On 2011/09/07 09:29 PM, Dorothy Cordochorea wrote:
> Your miniature village sounds like a fun project, Jill.  Are you 
> making it out of cob?
> --Dorothy
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Jill Hogan <jill.hogan at mat.org.za 
> <mailto:jill.hogan at mat.org.za>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Andy and the list
>     Here at MAT we are about to start building a minature village.It
>     started with me looking at minature villages all over the world,
>     and then on youth day we built a little cottage with potters clay
>     and a group of the youth. They had such fun that they wanted to
>     know when we are going to build the next one, and that kicked the
>     project off. We are aiming to build the first one on heritage day
>     24th Sept. This is play time will keep you up to date with what is
>     happening. It is fun time.
>     Second question looking for cobbers in Victoria Australia, know any
>     Jill Hogan
>
>
>     On 2011/09/07 08:34 PM, Andrew Purke wrote:
>
>
>         Greetings all
>
>         My name is Andy and I’ve been lurking on this list for some
>         time now gathering information for my upcoming cob projects.
>
>         I’ll be ready to start building in the spring, starting
>         small with a tool shed and working my way up to an art studio
>         (about 200 square
>         feet). Already built a cob oven that worked out great.
>
>         The soil here is poor for growing but loaded with clay so
>         cob seems a good choice of material.
>
>         I have the following books to get me started:
>
>         The Hand Sculpted House
>
>         Building with Cob
>
>         The Cobbers Companion
>
>         And Becky Bee’s book
>
>         But could use some advice from experienced cobbers.
>
>         Just wanted to introduce myself before jumping in with
>         questions so as not to seem rude.
>
>         Thanks in advance
>
>         Andy
>
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>     *Jill Hogan*
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*Jill Hogan*
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PO Box 365
McGregor
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