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I had hoped that the guy would have been dressed/assembled today, sadly though a complete failure for any clothes to materialise have meant that this hasn’t happened. I have however, completed my part of the group project though and spent a few hours last night (on top of the many hours construction time) finishing off the treacherous [...]
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This seems to be becoming an annual event for me, doing the guy’s head for the local playgroup that sees the fellow deposited in the local shop where he’s required to raise funds for the little kiddie-winkles activities, not that it bothers me at all. On the contrary it’s a good re-introduction to using paper [...]
Ah yes, finally! This has, without doubt, been the single most time consuming carving I’ve done, normally I keep track of the time taken in order to assign some sort of meaningful price to the object, however, as the hours ticked by and began to appraoch 20 hours of blister inducing carving I decided to [...]
Continue reading about Larry “two faces” Larch – Wood Carving
This is the first larger carving I have completed using my new gouges, they have essentially allowed me to abandon the set of craft knives I had been using and at the same time has also eliminated the fear I had of breaking the rather flimsy knives. The gouges have certainly made life a lot [...]
I spent ages referring to these as “things that you stick in your plant pot, you know, as decoration” so thanks to Jolene for finally setting me straight and appointing the title “plant poke”, at least when we’re trying to sell them at the craft fayre we’ll be able to put a name to them [...]
This is the last piece carved from wood sourced from the NW Highlands, Scotland, when we were on holiday there earlier in the year. It was good to get something a bit different my usual efforts in Elm and Alder, and whilst I think the Cherry’s nice I think I’d like to do some more [...]
During our recent holidayup to the NW highlands I picked up few pieces of wood that took my fancy, a piece cherry, a piece of elm and a piece of yew – I wasn’t sure what I was doing with them when I lifted them in the wood-turning centre, although there was obviously something about [...]
Firstly, there are now felt brooches in the shop. Each one of these is entirely handsewn by me and available for a bargain price. I made my first Inchies this week too and am excited by the results. The first set is for the A, B, C, D, E, F Inchie swap on ATCsforall and [...]
It’s probably going to be at least a few days until I’ve finished anything to upload so instead I thought I’d give you a wee taster of what’s to come. The first is essentially a larger and more complex version of ‘Gravalash’ from my previous post; I expect this to take a few weeks to complete given [...]
Continue reading about Papier mache sculptures – work in process
Veronica is a plushie that Jolene made way back when she was just getting into crafting in a more substantial way, discarding patterns and trying things out for herself. I’m pretty sure she was based on something Jolene saw on-line somewhere, although what or where is now long forgotten. For a while I was [...]
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