I think with some newspaper and plastic in your tub and an old 5 gallon plastic bucket. It really doesn't have to be that messy for a single project but I would pull the concrete out of the bag to put it in the bucket outside the door or patio or such until you add a little water and blend. The dust from the concrete until the water is added is my least favorite part.

Make sure your Manager is gone for the day................
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This is another brand new one with a 16 inch wire fan blade cover used at part of the armature... Still is setting and will need to be covered in a large trash bag and misted daily for a couple days

This one is my favorite. I like big pots. That is a piece that could stand alone even without a plant.

Thank you so much for doing this and the detailed directions.

You're on a roll, David!! And I think it's no longer an uphill climb. How incredibly beautiful.

I wish I lived close enough to visit your place, but by the time I got down there you'd probably have a room full of these draped pots and be scurrying on to one more new adventure.

Will you continue to combine your miniature scenes with these new pots? The combo would be most unique.

Greg, you have a space problem and I have a bit of a size problem (me) with no help anywhere around. But there hasn't been a mountain I couldn't climb yet, so I'll have it all figured out soon enough. It will be drier here during the latter part of summer, and that will bring much better working conditions for this area, I think. We're still having those sneaky freaky evening electrical storms that often include hail. I do have a good place to work on them, a great place, but it isn't sheltered. Guess I could look at it as 'hail - textured' cement pots.

At any rate, you have taken this idea and run with it, David. You are my inspiration. Yesterday I found a wire hanging pot holder in a circular shape. I got two of them and removed the chain that hangs them. They will be my armatures and might work with the rope I mentioned for that particular style. The fan cover worked well for you. Matching minds.

Greg,
You might try to get a section of a roof gutter..either from a DIY store or look at some installers who may have some junk pieces lying around they will give you.....also...try a plastic laundry basket for your oblong shape.

Plastic trash cans, lots of sizes and shapes, too.

Ooh, David...most interesting one yet for planting purposes... I love it!

Wowsa David so cool!!! Yep I agree with Sharon, Cinta and Bev - amazing and either empty or planted its going to look great!!!
Bill - great idea!!! I will try that! Also I was thinking even a piece of pipe that I could hang a towel over would make for something interesting!!! (we do have a fenced in side yard that has overgrown and the manager never goes over there - so...possibilities! haha But I can guarantee mine WILL NOT look anything as professional as Davids!! haha I'll be lucky and happy if mine even retain some shape

You will be surprised at what you will come up with Greg. The results will surprise you. These pots kind of create themselves once flopped.

Their strength is still surprising me...
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Thanks Bev. Hope you give this process a try someday. You will want more then one if you ever do the first!

Greg...you'll do very well...it takes the heart to lead the spirit to lead to success...it seems like you have the heart and spirit already!

And its FACT!

Bill you sure are philosophical - I love it!!! These threads can be so entertaining not just for info but also for the way people write (like @sharon) even though someone writes the simplest comments, they read very deeply!
I have never worked with cement, so that is also a "fear" but I have worked with chicken wire, and have wanted to blend these 2 mediums, just haven't done that yet! The cloth seems an easy transition to begin to work in cement!!! And of course people doing this at around the same time is a motivator - and seeing David's results is humbling but also motivating hugs to all my ATPers!!!

I have used chicken wire, thanks for reminding me, Greg . .. . and it's a great armature for some things, but the weight of the towels and the cement 'gravy' would just smush it, I'd think. And it would drip through the holes. Oh but ...... using the buckets or pots or whatever for the skeleton is just the best! And it might be even better if that bucket or pot stayed inside just for the support it provides.

So I just sat through another rainstorm. Heavyyy rain storm all decked out in wind and thunder and lightning. I was so glad I had waited because I thought it was going to knock the wind outta my daylilies. Turned day into night for about an hour. It would have done damage to a drying pot, even if it had been covered because with it came flying things -- limbs, sticks, my garden glove, a flying aluminum pan from the neighbors.

This is why I'm waiting for nature to settle down, you'd think KY was on the coast the way we are getting these blasted storms this year. About an hour ago . . . and now the sun is brightly shining .... Happy Summer!

What a beautiful garden Sharon!

Can you find the now well drying Sansevieria pot in this one?


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Here are some new ones I'm working on...

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The Sansevieria pot and older ones are now allowed in the Sun. You can see how pale they are getting. The 14 pound pot just lost 2 pounds! Once they dehydrate the do lose weight.........until planted!


These are still being hosed daily unless it rains while they mature...

I am really liking the look of these a lot and they are much lighter then regular hypertufa!

Reminds me of coral, David. I love the first picture, but then I love your new ones as well.
Yes we are on a roll!

Thanks about my garden, that's just a tiny corner that I was watching because there are so many daylily buds there. Thankfully there was no lasting damage and most of them just bounced right back up. I was facing West and that's the direction the storm was coming from. I am also planning a pot to go in that far right corner, something sort of spiked so it will fit well into the daylily bed, but will rise higher than. Make sense?

I love this. Cinta, thank you. And I love what Greg said. We are all having a really good time.

Oh, I'm glad they are losing weight as they dry. This is getting better and better and every one you make just inspires me more, David. Thank you!

David - Thanks for putting this link in the other forum. I have a ton of old drapery & upholstery fabrics......
Just what I need - another hobby...................but I sure could use some interesting planters.

You can do it Jean!

See ya' Wednesday? You can see my new ones in person!

"In person? On Wednesday?"
I am so jealous.

Wonder how fast I could drive a thousand miles.
If I bypass Atlanta . . . . mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Luckily, David is just about 2 hrs south of me. And there is a great quilt shop in the town so a doubly good reason to go down. If you think his yard looks good in photos, you should see it in person. So much to see & absorb!!!!!