Wood Embroidery

While playing around with some of Nick's boxes, Nadya discovers that you can too embroider on wood.

A plate.. no, a bowl? Or maybe a wall-hanging.

A rather fun wood-turning fellow shared a new of his scrap projects with me a while back, and I'm seeing if I can turn them into something interesting.. Here's a half-finished wood plate/bowl/hanging thingie. Inspiration for this one comes from an art teacher in high school. Dana, after seeing a dead pheasant and hearing me ask if we can somehow remove its (gorgeous) feathers, grinned and said "What the heck, sure!". We skinned the bird, and I still have bits of its preserved pelt. It was an interesting experience.

Boxes, boxes, boxes!

South-west Virginia is full of artists.

Nicola is from the area, and does some wonderful wood-turning.

Nadya's from the area, and does Russian-folk-art-inspired painting.

The result?



It is not a terribly advanced box, but it's a start.


Nadya's also just finished “Born to Run”, which turned out to be an excellent book, something like 8/10. Very upbeat and educational.

Nadya will stop talking in third person now. Yes, she will.