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Happy New Year to one and all. Here we are just a few days ago looking happy and optimistic for the year ahead. When we left you we’d finished our last craft fair of the year. After this we went into something of an inspiration meltdown and there we have remained for the past month. [...]
It’s been a wee while since I finished these off and I’m afraid they’ve been lying around gathering dust until I managed to find some time to take some photo’s of them. As ever, each Poke has been created using a combination of power-carving, hand-carving, sanding, pyrography and oiling to protect the wood from the [...]
A Prince among wood sprites? Surely he must be! Look he has a crown on!? I’ve put in place a self-imposed ban on making these sprites as they seem to be quickly taking over the house! Until I start making more again I’m just going to drip feed the existing ones to you! Available to [...]
I have blogged about these before, so won’t bore you with the details again. I have been trying to get some decent individual shots of them though and having struggled with lighting and props I finally managed to get some pictures for the shop, I’m rather please with them so I thought I might as [...]
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As promised, here’s a quick how to for making your own wooden crochet hook. These are easy to make but you will probably need to practice before the shape is akin to a mass manufactured crochet hook. I know I need to practice more on the shape. The thing is, these work regardless of how [...]
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Suffering from lack of crafting activity for the past week, I decided to whip up this crochet hook this afternoon from a piece of dowel. Later in the week I’ll show you how to make your own…but for now, it’s time for tea!
Skot is another artist found through DeviantArt where he goes by the name Lord Hoki, living on Austrailia’s East Coast Skot works in a variety of media creating a range of drawn, painted and sculpted objects. Much of his DeviantArt account is taken up with his Hoki range of work such as those pictured below: [...]
I spent an hour or two this week ogling at Joel Henriques’ blog and artwork. I was particularly struck by the simplicity and beauty of these wood and wire toys: So inspired was I, that I had a go at making my own wire bird…I think it’s ok for a first attempt. I’m pondering a [...]
Jolene and I spent a couple of hours last night collaborating on this Christmas Wreath for the front door last night, we’re fairly pleased with the end result even if I did get pricked so many times by the pine needles that my hands broke out in a mild allergic reaction that made it look [...]
This will probably be the final batch of plant pokes until after Christmas as ‘other priorities’ take over … also, the workshop gets hellish cold at this time of year due to gaping gaps under the doors and roof which may as well not be there when the cold winter gales get going! Click image [...]
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