Winners!

 The ornaments winners are; Val, Gemma's person, Jessica, Phyllis P and Sonja.  Congratulations!  It was fun to hear about all of your favorite Christmas Movies!   I will be getting the ornaments in the mail to you soon!  Gemma's person and Jessica  please email me with your mailing address. captainconnie2001atyahoodotcom  

The ornament will be revealed on the blog as soon as most of them have been received! 

Far Guy and I had a quiet day yesterday...I cleaned out the junk drawer in the kitchen for the highlight of my day.  It was a mess.  

The Art Gallery where we took the mini classes last Saturday. 

Far Side

Winners 2020 Ornament

 The winners for the ornament are the gals with these comments! Congratulations!! 

Bev 

Fargo has a 32 foot artificial tree.  11 pallets are used to store the parts.  There is a cone shaped metal frame that 'tree parts' are attached to.  To my knowledge, it has never blown over.  I'm not aware of an official Christmas tree being erected in West Fargo, although the Park Department does decorate several real trees with colored lights.

p.s.  Would love to win this year's woodcarved ornament

Henny Penny

Thank you for the second chance to enter. I wanted to look back anyway and see what happened to the tree. It was so pretty. Too bad it got blown over. Betsy mentioned in a post that you asked about others having trees in their town. I meant to drive through town on the way home this evening and forgot all about it. I think there is one in front of the courthouse. We've sure had enough wind lately to blow 

one over.

Bonnie

We live in a very small town but we do have a Christmas tree and a lighting ceremony each year. The wind has never blown it over and hopefully it won't because it is a live tree - still in the ground!

Your town's tree is beautiful and hopefully will be put back up and strongly secured so it won't blow over again! We put a wide, heavy base on our indoor tree each year since we have cats. ; )

Kathy

Our town does not have a Christmas tree. We live on a lake in northern MN and our neighbor decorated their outside pine tree with lights this year. It looks real nice.

Thank you for the chance (once again) to win one of your wood carved ornaments.

Bev and Henny Penny I have your address.  Bonnie and Kathy please send your snail mail address to me  captainconnie2001atyahoodotcom  I will mail ornaments in a few days! 

Thank you everyone for sharing the Christmas trees in your areas. 

Sadly the tree on Main Street could not be saved...however someone donated a smaller tree and The Grinch left a decorated branch one night...when I get to town I will take photos. 

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Here is the woodcarving process this year for the 2020 ornament.  I struggled with this ornament and the painting of them...I tried several different techniques...I finally found one I could live with. 

Far Guy cut the basic shapes out of Basswood

Then they were carved

Then I wood burned the names and the year.

And painted and painted note my fancy peanut butter jar holder!

Some different colors...I tried to keep track of what colors so in larger families everyone got a different color...I believe the final count was 95 ornaments.

Here is our ornament! 

We have next years design all worked out and the pieces are cut out and waiting to be woodcarved...IF we get bored this winter...although we like to do this project outside when it is nice and warm! 

Far Side

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Christmas Ornament 2018

It is time to reveal the ornament that we woodcarved for 2018.  We had no idea what we were going to carve, a fellow carver (Sheila) and her sister came up with an idea and I expanded on it.

The blocks of wood were cut and Far Guy used the wood lathe to round out some of the parts…it saved some hand carving.

Then they were hand carved, top and the bottom part with the face and the scarf. Far Guy drilled a small hole in the top and we attached an eye hook…it gives you something to hold onto and it will hang on my fancy smancy wood carving holder ( A piece of wood with nails that is screwed to the top of a large peanut butter jar. ) I tried to paint ten at a time.

Gesso was applied

I learned how to paint plaid on the Internet. FYI painting plaids will eventually drive you almost nuts.

Faces and snow and trees

Then I lightly sanded the whole thing…put a dark wash over the whole thing and washed most of it off.  Then they dried for a few days…noses came next…they are toothpicks painted orange.  The entire ornament was sealed and names were added.  Glitter was added to the tops of the trees and satin like embroidery floss attached to the eye hooks.

Chance has two snowmen ornaments this year…his was the first carving I finished before I learned how to paint proper plaids.  I made him another.

It was a time consuming project with so many steps to its creation.

Now for some winners!  Congratulations!  I enjoyed all your answers and drew some names.

Marilyn in Massachusetts sends out about 9 cards.

Pauline Pershing in Ohio sends 65+ cards

Val Ewing in Wisconsin sends 20-30 cards.

Linda Reeder in Washington sends 70 cards.

I have Marilyn’s address.  Pauline , Val and Linda contact me by email please. captainconnie2001atyahoodotcom so I can get your ornaments ready to mail! I will mail on Wednesday or Thursday.