A Little Apple Jelly
Halve
Floradora and Graziella gave their apples to Jane, and while she doesn’t have a recipe for Crabapple Jelly per se, she has made many jellies and jams over the years so she decided to wing it. First she cut each crabapple in half…
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Scraphappy – Wood scraps
Bits and pieces
At the beginning of September, I travelled to Oregon, where I carved a dolly from scraps of at least three different kinds of wood – a Head-and-body of possibly Kauri; arms and legs made from cherry dowels; and…
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Floradora Smiles
Before Face
In 2020, one of my lovely wooden-doll-carving friends sent me a dogwood blank to carve since we were prevented from getting together by the pandemic lockdown. I did manage to extract Floradora from the wood, though dogwood is one of the hardest woods I have ever carved. I loved her very much, but I thought she ended up a little serious and remote. So this year, when my carving friends were at last able to meet in person again, I brought Floradora with me, hoping to put a smile on her face and cute her up a little – this is her face before I changed anything…
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