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auntyalias: because if you are I'm just going to jump into the orchids with both feet. But if you're still unclear about canes we'll do a chevron flip and a bullseye to lace cane first.

stargazer_sbpcg: yes with SIII, Premo, Fimo Soft, and Kato

stargazer_sbpcg: i havent done a chevron flip before...

auntyalias: ok then I'll show you what I'm going to be pulling from ...the mini food cane stash

jude: There was something there and then it disappeared!

jude: This is the way NJ stores her canes.

stargazer_sbpcg: neato! color cooridinated too!

auntyalias: The fruit and vegegable side is better for flowers

auntyalias: the meat and bread side just makes gruesome orchids

auntyalias: eeeek

icare4bunnies: better than my boxes

jude: Yes, looks like they are color sorted.

icare4bunnies: I have to dig

auntyalias: for those who don't know ...this cane storage is made with free Priority boxes from the post office

icare4bunnies: lol

auntyalias: priority envelopes covered with foil is the zig zag partitions

icare4bunnies: good job

stargazer_sbpcg: i used to keep my canes in zip-loc baggies...

icare4bunnies: me too

icare4bunnies: or in wax paper

kmrhodes: so Nj you make lots of canes and then just store them?

stargazer_sbpcg: yikes! i did that too...

auntyalias: Now with orchids you can use petals that are of different colors and patterns and add them together and get away with it

icare4bunnies: so do you wrap them before you slip them into their zig zags?

auntyalias: so let's take a couple of canes here and do some orchid moves with them

stargazer_sbpcg: wahoo!

jude: The work table with some clay.

bonsaikathy: I love the way you have done the partitions, it's a great idea

icare4bunnies: incoming stem!

bonsaikathy: is it tin foail bent in a zig zag

icare4bunnies: is the yellow the center?

jude: Looks like a bullseye cane and a green rope. Can't see what the other is.

auntyalias: Using the Papaya skin lace cane and the Papaya inside we're going to make an orchid by slicing three from one and two from the other

auntyalias: for the 5 petals. The stalk there and the LIP of the orchid will be fussed with later

jude: These are small canes it looks like.

jude: She is taking some slices.

jude: Two slices from the papaya cane.

icare4bunnies: stretching

jude: Now, using her thumbs and fingers she is pinching around the edges of the cane, flattening it.

jude: Stretching it into a petal shape at the same time.

jude: It's almost a tear drop shape.

jude: Now she's doing the other slice.

jude: Same way, using thumbs and fingers and pinching all around the edge.

jude: this flattens it and makes it easier to stretch, too.

jude: she has the other cane now. Can't tell what...

icare4bunnies: creasing

jude: She's using a clay shaper tool, I think.

jude: Pencil?

icare4bunnies: heart shape

kmrhodes: #2 cone clay shaper

auntyalias: brb, door

jude: Yes, she is making a heart shape from this piece of clay.

stargazer_sbpcg: she's going to the door to see who's there... hee-hee

icare4bunnies: should have put "gone claying"

dahs512: Give me a sec to save some of the shots

icare4bunnies: on her door

auntyalias: ok, let me know when you're ready Denise

auntyalias: I'm making this cane into a heart and after I slice off three pieces, with one being thicker than the other two I'll press them flat, see what happens

jude: I can see what she did now. She took another cane and shaped it into a heart. Pinched one side to be the bottom and put a crease in the top.

jude: Now she is bending the papaya petals.

auntyalias: Like tearing paper edge

jude: Shaping them, rolled them slightly so they are bent up at the edges.

jude: Yes, the tearing paper trick.

stargazer_sbpcg: wavy...

jude: It thins the edges and makes them look more natural, too.

dahs512: ok ready for more

auntyalias: we'll be doing that paper tear move a lot with these orchids. Is Denise ready?

dahs512: yes

dahs512: i even got a couple while i was saving

auntyalias: so three slices of the heart shaped lace cane with one being bigger than the rest and then press

jude: Okie, getting some slices of the lace, heart-shaped, cane.

jude: One large and two smaller.

jude: They are going to be put through the pasta machine.

icare4bunnies: it's a dragonfly!

jude: She lays them all into an almost dragonfly shape, with the green rope down the center.

jude: butterfly?

icare4bunnies: more of a dragonfly

icare4bunnies: the papaya slices on the bottom

jude: the lace cane slices are at the top with the papaya slices below.

icare4bunnies: then one big one on top

jude: the large lace cane slice goes at the top like an angel on a Christmas tree.

auntyalias: LOL

auntyalias: I love you Aunt Jude

jude:

auntyalias: ok we have 6 of the 7 bits we need for an orchid

jude: With wings outspread. Hehehehe

auntyalias: now for the LIP

jude: Now, don't you give us any lip!

stargazer_sbpcg: lol

auntyalias: which could be big or small or pouched or looking like a female spider waiting for a trist

kmrhodes: lady bug

dahs512: lol

jude: NJ places a red thingy, just at the base of the big slice, at the top of the green rope.

jude: Ah, yes...it's a red lace cane.

dahs512: got it

auntyalias: good work, Denise, thanks

jude: Red thingy is the technical term for it, however.

auntyalias: ok that's a simple lace cane with white center and red surround on the bullseye

jude: Is that a slice off the red lace cane?

auntyalias: yuppers

dahs512: yea

jude: You just took a fat slice?

jude: Okie.

auntyalias: and I'm thinking I'll add it with something else just to be freaky

icare4bunnies: lol the picture goes dim when nj types

jude: you can't leave well enough alone, huh? Exciting!

kmrhodes: looks like an eye cane

dahs512: looks like any iris

icare4bunnies: alien eye

stargazer_sbpcg: looks like an eyeball 'iris'...

jude: She is going to add a blue thingy. Lace cane with a bullseye in it.

jude: Eyeball cane, yes, could be!

auntyalias: yup, it's from the Folded Cane trick

auntyalias: and I think we can do easier eyeballs with the folded cane trick

kmrhodes: thats a new demo, huh?

auntyalias: let's cut a bit of this and take that lace cane and cut a couple of slices and turn the red lace cane into little bowls

auntyalias: stick them in the center of that green stuff there

auntyalias: and make an interesting LIP

jude: Okie, the red disappeared and then the whole picture went wonky.

jude: There it is...slicing the red cane.

jude: Very small red slices.

jude: she is using her clay shaping tool into the center, pushing it into the center to form a small bowl.

dahs512: need more light, NJ

honeyrivers left the room

jude: Using her fingers now to shape the bowl better.

jude: How to build a better bowl, huh? Good!

dahs512: I'm cussing at your camera NJ

stargazer_sbpcg: it worked!

jude: She is now doing the same with the other red cane slice.

jude: using her clay shaper to form a small bowl.

jude: Then using her fingers to smooth out the bowl.

jude: Make it look nice.

jude: Okie, two red bowls.

jude: Look like eyes staring at me.

jude: Oh...looks like the eyeball cane. Looks like a kiwi, sorta.

auntyalias: Now how did I get that slice to do that?

auntyalias: Anyone?

stargazer_sbpcg: mobius?

kmrhodes left the room

icare4bunnies: you looked at it funny

jude: It's magic!

dahs512: stretching the edge

jude: Using the tearing trick?

jude: It's like a fortune cookie.

auntyalias: when you slice the cane

auntyalias: don't slice it straight

auntyalias: slice it so it's a wedge of cane

auntyalias: with more clay at the top and less clay at the bottom of a heart shape

auntyalias: press going first from the point

icare4bunnies: kinda dark

auntyalias: then press sideways for each side of the heart

auntyalias: narrowing the rollers with each press

auntyalias: then paper tear the edges

jude: Oh, neat.

auntyalias: now let's put those red bits on the bend of that LIP

auntyalias: Now we're ready to put the seven bits together into one orchid, are we ready?

jude: Okie, she's picked up the small red bowls and placed them on the eyeball slice she just described.

dahs512: can't see

jude: Ready!

dahs512: #$%#$%

icare4bunnies: I think my problem is that I never really looked at an iris closely

auntyalias: Denise are you cursing?

auntyalias: LOL

dahs512: yes

icare4bunnies: dark

jude: Such language!

jude: We are back to the original six shapes (dragonfly).

dahs512: i need a well lite pic of the lip

jude: NJ has the green rope and the red-bowled eyeball cane.

jude: Is placing the green rope on the front with the top of the rope just touching the red bowls.

jude: shaping the petal and pressing it underneath to the rope.

jude: Can't see what she's doing. I think she's adding the other petals, one at a time.

jude: Yes, she is.

jude: The papaya petals are being pressed into the back just below the first.

icare4bunnies: I have to go now, catch you all later

jude: The other petals are added the same way, each in turn, pressed into the back.

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jude: Each overlaps slightly the one next to it and they are placed in the same area as they were laid out in the dragonfly.

jude: She also slightly bent, moved cajoled each into position and formed them more neatly into a petal shape.

auntyalias: There

dahs512: got it

stargazer_sbpcg: Wahoo!!!

auntyalias: now we could pull those three top petals and ruffle their edges

jude: Neat!

auntyalias: 7 bits

auntyalias: and it's an orchid

jude: That is really great.

auntyalias: any flower petal shape or color or pattern can be used

stargazer_sbpcg: very beauteous!!

auntyalias: and Easy Breezy

auntyalias: I'll take questions now

dahs512: I'm gonna go save pics

auntyalias: ok, I'll save log

jude: The red things...when you put them on the petal...I can't see clearly which way you placed them. Bowl side up or down?

jude: Looks like down to me. Okie.

dahs512: got that one too

jude: Although, orchids have it either way, don't they?

auntyalias: There's so many ways to attract pollinators

jude: Yup.

auntyalias: that's the goal of the LIP to attract something to come in and exchange pollen

auntyalias: now this can be shaped and formed and fussed with more

auntyalias: which I'll do with the upper petals but I wanted all of you to see that it's only 7 bits

auntyalias: any 7 bits as long as you have a stalk, a lip and 5 petals to make an orchid

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jude: Right.

auntyalias: Denise are you ready

auntyalias: I got some pictures of exploded Orchids to share

dahs512: wait

jude: Exploded?

jude: You doing flower abuse?

auntyalias: LOL exactly

auntyalias: in a scrap clay frenzy

jude: Here in CA some of our flowers are protected.

auntyalias: this is going up on PC PolyZine for next month

stargazer_sbpcg: Wahoo!!! (i guess you saw my Feather Cane tute) ???

auntyalias: so are there any questions while I wait for Denise to be ready for the next shot

dahs512: ok, i'm ready

auntyalias: Yuppers Jean we saw your Feather Cane, nifty, use them in an orchid now

stargazer_sbpcg: way cool!!

auntyalias: Thanks Denise, I'd like one pix per example and there's a half a dozen, tell me when you got the shot, ok?

dahs512: k

dahs512: make sure you get it lit well

auntyalias: here's the first one all white

dahs512: k, bot it's not very clear

auntyalias: wait up

jude: Can you maybe scan them instead?

dahs512: or digi cam it?

dahs512: k, but it @#@#s

dahs512: k

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dahs512: nobody is going to be able to see this #%$^

dahs512: i'll be nice now

jude: Promise?

dahs512: yes

jude: Hehehehe

auntyalias: try that

dahs512: k

dahs512: got it

auntyalias: ok Denise?

dahs512: ok

auntyalias: next

dahs512: ok

dahs512: tell me when

dahs512: got it when it was lit

auntyalias: cool

auntyalias: next

dahs512: got it

jude: Looks like some kind of weird machinery there in the background. Medical looking, isn't it?

dahs512: book holder?

auntyalias: ok gang

auntyalias: how would you make those petals

dahs512: got it

auntyalias: what technique do you need to use to get that motly spot effect?

auntyalias: Anyone?

dahs512: a version of the fan fold?

auntyalias: LOL

frogger70301: no idea.

jude: Looks almost like a pansy petal.

dahs512: with distortion

auntyalias: Put an extra petal on Denise's guessing flower

auntyalias: a verson of the fan fold

auntyalias: get a bunch of snakes

dahs512: stab the cane with a credit card

auntyalias: and don't sweat making them all even

auntyalias: the more uneven the better

jude: Stabbing and snakes? Yikes!

auntyalias: roll out a sheet of white

auntyalias: and stack the uneven snakes in a stack and surround with the white

auntyalias: reduce and take the end of the cane, the raggedy end and cut that off and stack it once

auntyalias: a solid bullseye for the tip, but cut into it with a credit card then surround add to the stacked two sections you've already made

auntyalias: reduce and slice

auntyalias: frill the edges with the tearing paper effect

auntyalias: now the lip

auntyalias: that blend wih spots

auntyalias: that's the fan fold with the blend ribbon

auntyalias: there's some blends that I've shown you with the exploding orchids

auntyalias: so a strong purple can be blended in white with a bright yellow tip and you can get away with it

auntyalias: lips that look like frilly lace cuffs on 17C fops done in spots and stripes and you can get away with it

auntyalias: Now this orchid has petals like a Pansy

jude:

auntyalias: and in the center the lip is spotted to look like an inviting lady bug

dahs512: got it

auntyalias: who is saying

auntyalias: copulate with me Big Boy

auntyalias: just to stir up the pollen

dahs512: lol

auntyalias: Got that picture Denise, I love this one

dahs512: yes

auntyalias: thank you

frogger70301: that one is gorgeous!

dahs512: got it

auntyalias: Now I wouldn't think of putting Tongues of Fire lace can with a blended pink and white giant lip

auntyalias: with what looks like a wee fairy sitting at the center

auntyalias: fairy makers head's up

auntyalias: for fantasy figures

auntyalias: we can make the center of the orchid little people

auntyalias: and the petals their arms, or wings and the lip their skirt

auntyalias: there's a lot of potential in orchids to build mini scenes inside of a whacked out orchid

auntyalias: I'm saving the log at this point

auntyalias: potty break for those who need it

jude: I have got to go, but will be back later.

jude: Maybe I will rephrase. I have got to leave, but will be back later.

jude: Great demo! I can't wait to try it!