may 2 - may 9, 2009 workshop, with instuctors Greg Allen and Mike McDonough pictures are from the workshop and also from the following months
WELCOME TO CRUZINCOBGLOBAL! Check out the photo album of our latest workshop in Utuado, Puerto Rico building a cottage for Alexa & Naldo! Puerto Rico February 2024: students sculpted the Continue Reading →
This pony bead corn cob craft is made with chenille stems and is simple enough for everyone in the family to complete.
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Image 6 of 29 from gallery of COBS Year-Round Micro Cabins / Colorado Building Workshop. Photograph by Jesse Kuroiwa
Day seven started out earlier than usual as we were ending the day a little earlier and we were loosing a couple of people who had to head home because of distance and work. We were still very much behind schedule. With Andrew being ill much of the week we had not completed as much
Image 10 of 29 from gallery of COBS Year-Round Micro Cabins / Colorado Building Workshop. Photograph by Jesse Kuroiwa
Image 29 of 29 from gallery of COBS Year-Round Micro Cabins / Colorado Building Workshop. Floor Plan X
Image 5 of 29 from gallery of COBS Year-Round Micro Cabins / Colorado Building Workshop. Photograph by Jesse Kuroiwa
Image 20 of 29 from gallery of COBS Year-Round Micro Cabins / Colorado Building Workshop. Morphology
Completed in 2016 in Leadville, United States. Images by Jesse Kuroiwa. In 2016 the Colorado Outward Bound School (COBS), a not-for-profit organization focusing on outdoor education, continued their partnership with (name...
Image 17 of 29 from gallery of COBS Year-Round Micro Cabins / Colorado Building Workshop. Photograph by Jesse Kuroiwa
Image 24 of 29 from gallery of COBS Year-Round Micro Cabins / Colorado Building Workshop. Floor Plan B
Looking for a gluten-free tabbouleh recipe? This tabbouleh without bulgur wheat is made with millet instead, but tastes just as delicious.
Day seven started out earlier than usual as we were ending the day a little earlier and we were loosing a couple of people who had to head home because of distance and work. We were still very much behind schedule. With Andrew being ill much of the week we had not completed as much
After only about a year and a half of intense learning in natural building, I decided to teach a workshop! Thanks to Tammy's encouragement in Bandon, Oregon, I just finished a very successful 5 days of tadelakt and lime plaster teaching :) If you missed my original posting and are wondering what Tadelakt is... click here! The finished tadelakt shower. Great job on the workshop, team! The first day was a one-day "Introduction to Tadelakt" workshop. It began with a thorough presentation and overview of tadelakt and lime plaster and then everyone applied a tadelakt finish to a "cobject." Participants burnishing their tadelakt cobjects The cobjects, color samples, and stones Finished tadelakt cobjects! Prior to the one-day workshop, my assistant Alexandra Nathan and I did a lot of preparation to get ready and make sure everything would go well... First we made samples of different lime plasters to use as our substrate and our tadelakt plaster. We varied the amount of sand and lime in each to find a good amount of strength, drying, and shine. Then we tested all the pigments that Tammy has purchased to see what colors we were most interested in. We added to and roughed up the earthen plaster (or brown coat) that had been applied over the cob and eventually applied the lime plaster substrate. We also had chosen some colors that we liked for the shower, so we added some "bubbles" to the interior of the bathhouse to test out the tadelakt. Substrate and Tadelakt Lime Plaster Samples w/ cat prints! Scratched up Earthen Plaster Alex and I with Pigment Samples Applying the Lime Plaster Substrate Completed Substrate Alex applying Lime Plaster for Tadelakt Bubbles Finished Tadelakt "Bubbles" (the white substrate will be covered up later when the cob walls are plastered) next to the many glass window bubbles Pouring the tadelakt pigment into the lime plaster. Such a pretty color! ooohhh... loving that mix :) working with one of the workshop participants on lime plaster troweling Applying the second layer of lime plaster for the tadelakt The dry burnishing on the first day always goes into the night. We finished at 11 pm! Amazing! We got 8 people in there burnishing! I "supervised" :) Here, I was repairing a little ding in the tadelakt. Good demo opportunity! What a GREAT team! Thanks for an awesome workshop! This is darker than it will ultimately dry, but it'll stay mottled. Isn't is gorgeous? LOVE the variation! Burnishing away... in the clouds? :) We all LOVE tadelakt! This amazing crew finished the very last of the burnishing This is the largest of the stones that we used to burnish the tadelakt. Most are much smaller! Tammy came up with a great invention! A handle on that tiny stone! As we were leaving, the tiny "microfissures" were just starting to appear. You can see them, but can't feel them. They are so beautiful! But that's not all! We also were able to lime plaster and burnish the bottom of the exterior of the shower building! We gave these sea creatures a lime plaster update! and Linda did a demonstration of her burnished fresco technique! What an action packed and wonderful experience. I can't wait to do it again! Let me know if you know of a place to host another...
There's another revolution brewing in the Colombian capital, this time in the kitchen. Peter Frank Edwards captures Bogotá's top restaurants in this photo gallery.
Completed in 2016 in Leadville, United States. Images by Jesse Kuroiwa. In 2016 the Colorado Outward Bound School (COBS), a not-for-profit organization focusing on outdoor education, continued their partnership with (name...
