[Woodcarver] WHOTCHACORV'N????

[Mike Bloomquist]

Just finished a Santa with a snowy owl and rabbits for a local collector.  We have this neat tradition that's developed (like Jan asking "whatchyacarvin'").  Around the beginning of October I get an e-mail or phone call from her wondering how her Santa is coming.  Well, I usually have only a vague reccollection of what we discussed the year before, and she never sets our specifics anyway, so the next few e-mails are gentle reminders to jog my memory.  Then, sometime after Yvonne and I finish our last craft show, my wife and I deliver the Santa, which I make sure it's boxed so her husband can wrap it as her Christmas "surprise".  She always requests that I bring any other Santas I have on hand and usually buys a less expensive one on the spot.  Yvonne and I then get a wonderful tour of her home which is fully decorated for Chritmas, with a minumum of four trees and various gatherings of Santas in deverent eras and styles.  Plastic Santas from the '60s, Santas with animals, an antique cupboard with rows and rows of Santas.  Her Santas from me have their own table now, and they almost outnumber the Harley Davidson series that her son-in-law has been gifting her.  The Display has familiar pieces in it, but the layout is always different from year to year.  This year she had a songbird tree which is my favorite so far.  Dried vines as garland... balls of dried hydrangia.. frosted pinecones... and many. many songbird ornaments, and hand painted birdhouse ornaments.

I sent her your way, Teri, for a Santa book from BH&G.  She had a magazine on her coffee table from a previous year, and Itold her about them not doing the softcover for the magazine stands this year.  I've already taken the risk of sending her to Teri's website before, but I guess she's loyal to the "local boy" <G>.

After that I have three cottonwood woodspirits on there way to Florida.  The client called them "tree whisperers" which I think is too kewl.  ...And now I'm squeezing in a butternut dragon mirror for my older daughter for her new apartment in Brooklyn.


Keep on Carvin', and Merry Christmas
-Mike B.->

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  From: jan oegema 
  To: [Woodcarver] 
  Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 12:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] WHOTCHACORV'N????


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  B>J Wrote in part 
  I am still teaching classes four days a week. This keeps me VERY busy. Currently I have 24 students. We drink copious amounts of strong coffee.
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  Are these students the same each day Bill ? 
  and for how many hours a day ?
  My classes were over on Nov 3 and I did 3 seminars since then 
  Now I am just Fa-----ng-- around doing some corv'n of my own and some orders 
  Wish I could take a class with you and help you empty that coffee pot at the same time 
  Maybe we could arange foe you to come and teach here for a week  or so 
  at the same time you could stop off at the ROUNDUP and see you good (and not so good ) relatives
  Let it sink in and think about it 
  Sounds like a plan EH??
                                      Woodbutcher Jan


  Check out my web site at

  http://members.rogers.com/jancarves

  Also take a look at my picture trail albums

  http://www.picturetrail.com/woodbutcher


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