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The Puget Sound Bonsai Club is doing a winter silhouette show, and I'm thinking of submitting my magnolia, which is in good shape right now and generally has leaves that are to big for summer displays, and flowers to early for the spring show. So I spent some time today taking some pictures and...

For my recent club show I made this stand somewhat last minute to display some smaller trees. It's 24" x 24" x 10". I used 1/4" birch plywood and slightly thicker maple for edges and uprights. I definitely learned some things along the way. In the quest to keep it very minimal and subtle I made...

I've often wondered what folks do with their trees that have suffered an untimely death.... So this is a thread asking folks to show and tell what they do with a dead tree. In my case, I was involved in helping a tree become reincarnated into a poignant exhibit commemorating its life. The...

I'm in a new house and going to be building some new benches soon. In the past I've done the standard board and cinderblock benches. Very functional and affordable, but would like to do something a little more attractive this time. Before I go get the lumber and start sawing, I thought I'd ask...

Saturday i will go to a winter tree presentation anyone who likes is allowed to bring a tree to display there It is being encouraged to be creative and come up with a non traditional display to show your tree I am now googling for unusual display settings but nothing much is there to be...

So I went from this: To this: I've had a lot of large yews sitting too close to the ground (sitting on pieces of 1x1 wood) so after about three years of telling myself "I ought to do something about that," I finally did... Eventually I would like to build a stream going down the slope...

I find that setting up a shohin display is really hard. First, you have to have a lot of trees. Second, they need to be in a variety of styles and containers. AND they need to be a variety of species. AND they need to all be looking good at the same time. AND you need lots of stands. I think...

Excited, Bjorn is gong to now be carrying my Scrolls in his online store! Really cool to pair up with him! http://www.bjorvalabonsaistudio.com/american-kakejiku-scroll-maker-stacy-allen-muse/

Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the processes of extracting knowledge or design information from anything man-made and re-producing it or re-producing anything based on the extracted information. Over the next several days as I have time I will post the individual...