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Wow.. time flies and another year has passed by. Though I didn't accomplish a great deal of carving, I did some. Took one class from Trudy carving my 1st bottle stopper. Carved a bark house for my land lady's 89th birthday gift. Put my 1st face in bark with the little Santa. Finished a Jon Nelson Santa for my sister, and 2 boxes I'd purchased from Sheila Hunter. My experiment with them was using the nail polish they paint decorations on finger nails with to color them. Also carved my 1st spoon for a wedding gift. I used Dave Stetsons little no eye Santa in bark and put a tree behind it.. and painted the bark for a donation for the free clinic. I have several things started and have decided to complete them before starting any new projects. I have only eyes and buttons to put on a Shiply sea captain - a row of wheat to put on a butternut vase and a biker dude that began as a cowboy 2 yrs ago! I also have a large piece of bark started. So much to do.. so little time. I really need to buy a lotery ticket and WIN.. so I could just carve instead of going to a job each day. All I need to do is remember to purchase a ticket next time I'm in MT. Happy New Year Carvers. I hope it's a great year for all of us.
Jan. 20th 2006 was a day that changed my ability to carve for years. I snapped a wrist cartlidge moving furniture and then medical practice spent another 2 years messing things up and trying to fix them. It's so nice to be able to say that I believe carving will once again always be a part of life. Once I had the pain under control and some ability back, there was still a long way to go to regain my imagination. Last year I carved this house - (60hrs as I was just beginning to carve with any regularity again so VERY slow) for the free clinic auction. It sold for only $60. When others found out, they said they would have paid much more and I could have donated the money itself. After that lesson, I carved 3 smaller houses for another fund raiser. The great part is all the houses went to folks that know me. I like that.. knowing things I carved made at least a bit of a difference and are hanging where they're loved.
I guess the good news is I'd been busy... messing with flowers - until the warm weather left in Nov. - and camping :1st trip of the year is Easter - last is Halloween - and carving for Christmas gifts - Doane in the summer and MO for a wedding in the fall. Took a class with the group doing a cottonwood bark tree house (it's not done but NEXT UP) Took another class with Bill & Trudy to carve a cowboy - that dang nerve and the barometer don't alway let me carve when I'd like to... thus.. the cowboy - (who's turned into a biker with a do-rag because I couldn't get the hat to look like what it needed to be in my mind's eye) is waiting for attention. I have a Kaleidoscope 4/6 ths done - and it has a base too.. a Santa that only needs fur and hair and painted.. a bark house that only needs detailed & one last tree I've not seen yet that will hold a swing - (for Colette who purchased the 4 for her kids years ago). No new projects.. untill I complete what I've begun. It will be OK if I work on more than one of them during a given time period... just NO NEW PROJECTS... that's the only resolution I made.. and it was emmm last weekend after I finished that 2nd walking stick! Happy New Year Carvers!
"there" was a no carving zone.. or limited carving.. but now.. I think I'm back again. I managed to finish Keith's cowboy for Dad - though it required an amputation (center of back to top of shoulder down the front to just into the pocket and still in the pocket around to the center back) The arm I had to rid him of looked like an empty sleeve. I just couldn't live with it.. non carvers of course said "it doesn't look that bad" to me however, it looked like what Trudy would call "designer fire wood". It was perfect for my dad too as he has an artificial shoulder, both hips and one knee - the other knee is fused and I took it to him the night before he went in for 7 hrs of surgery on his back while they fused 3-4 & 5 and whittled on 2 and 6. That was Dec. 10th. I then finished up a bark house I'd started in Gillette WY with Trudy and Veronica in Oct. and another small one I'd started over Labor Day weekend and given them away... Oh ya.. and there was another I did before I finished the cowboy... and it too had a planned home. Then I managed to get one knocked out in 2 wks for a free clinic auction the 6th and I will have at least one more ready for a fund raiser next weekend. I'm kind of sick of bark at the minute with the 2 donations having time restrictions. I was VERY pleased with the last one. It had my best tree yet.. (I've only tried 3.) My imagination is having a hard time kicking in this week. Last week my grandmother turned 100 and with family and party plans, there was no time to begin and it's hard to rush relaxing.. so imagining can happen. I'll go hang out with Trudy and Mel tomorrow afternoon.. they'll help it get kicked in!
BULLY IN THE BLOCK Cottonwood bark, a most social wood, It beckons "Please come carve me, For I hold within a secret gift Your heart and knife can carve free." While bully basswood, just a plain, hard block Makes a beginner want to quit. It challenges in its' harder wood way "Ya wanna make somethin’ of it?" Where cottonwood enjoys release Of the treasure hidden within, Basswood fights me all the way, Leaving blisters as proof on my skin. But a carver I intend to be, So I'll fight the bully bass. I'll take its' challenge. I'll change its' shape. Well........ At least for this one class! Vicki Taylor - Fall 2005
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Done!
Posted On 05/07/2008 20:18:06
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Well, that task's done! Shoot it only 2 hours. Matt said " be sure to put a picture in your profile. Folks like to see who you are." So, for 2 hours I messed with my webcam tring to get a pic that would not scare anyone and show my favorite bark carved item - the water wheel. Now it's 9 and my stomache is talking to me.. FEED ME!.. I'm joining the site in hopes that it along with Trudy and the gang will help me regain my passion for carving.
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