[Woodcarver] What's your woodcarving related New Year's resolution?

[Donna Menke]

That is a good question, Joe. I have made the same resolutions every year, but most of them end up not getting done. The seated nude is still a pile of reference photos, some drawings and a hefty chunk of butternut. I really want to get at her, but it needs to be in a space of time when there is nothing else pressing- and I'm not there. 
I sometimes go months without carving or any woodworking at all- that is bad. It is depressing to not make something- not to make a cake that will be eaten, or to clean a floor  that will just get dirty again, but to make something permanent with our own two hands- it just doesn't get any better than that.

Make something- you will feel better for it. 
Donna Menke
http://www.woodworks-by-donna.com 
Author: The Ultimate Band Saw Box Book



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> From: Joe Dillett <jdillett at thecarvingshop.net>

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> Hi fellow carvers,

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> What are your woodcarving related New Year's resolutions?

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> Last year I closed the business, resolving to work less and have more 

> fun. That worked out so well I'm making the same resolution again. I'm still 

> carving. I'm currently working on some large church carvings but at a much 

> slower pace. They just broke ground in November and won't be ready for them for 

> awhile. 

>  

> I plan to continue teaching disabled veterans here in my shop and at Camp 

> Pendleton.

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> We're also making new plans. My wife and I are putting together a small 

> woodcarving museum that we hope to have open around September 2009.

>  

> We're also organizing GOW 2009 (Gathering Of Woodcarvers) for the week of 

> September 28, 2009.

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> What are your plans, goals, dreams for the new year?

> 

> Joe Dillett

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