This will be the fourth design based on the same layout. Can you see it?

In #ChipCarving the design is always about balance between light and shadow. Im not always sure a design will work well when I start. I'm going to clean this up a little and put on the finish.

These are getting more creative as I go. A flakey piece of wood made me recarve and change the design, for the better I think. I carved Side-A on this one today! Only 6-1/2 more sides to go in order to complete this set! #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

The Finale! I know I've shared all of these in progress, but when I put them all together, my mind explodes! Six double-sided stars that all started with eight divisions of a circle. #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

Fertig! #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

This B-side has only three-facet chips. #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

I tried it, and it's a nice combo of positive and negative space. I tried a new centerpiece design. Those four-facet chips always give me trouble. I'll have to do more of those. This center was complicated so it was slow. #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

It kind of amazes me that my own two hands can create unlimited variety. Yet I imagine real snowflakes crystalizing from water and temperature into something unique. If I were to copy nature, my musings have barely touched forming the formless, infinitely. #ChipCarving #WoodCarving #Nature

I completed this two-sided #ChipCarving ornament today. #WoodCarving

One decision about how to carve the triangles, will set a course to a new design. In #ChipCarving, geometric designs take shape one chip at a time, one after another in a orderly manner, dictated by the first decision.

Final #ChipCarving of 2025. I finished this double-sided rosette star last night. 2026 can now bring more brightly shining stars to life! Happy New Year! #WoodCarving

Our first snow! The Toulouse geese don't care. They've been through this drill before. #barnyard #FarmLife

A new double-sided chip-carved-star ornament, or 'rosette.' This one is based on eight equal divisions of a circle. The spiral elements of the second side were based on a design from mychipcarving.com. I previously used this on the cross I carved also. #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

Someone playing my musical spoons at the Driftless Folk Fesival! In my spare time, I still chip away at my unfinished projects. #WoodCarving #SpoonCarving #MusicalInstruments

Another bird finished. This one is carved from the invasive honeysuckle that I helped to remove from a local nature center.

Two custom-made basswood spoons, hand carved with the letter A. Two more comforting-love birds, one from white pine and the other from butternut. All four are finished with walnut oil. #WoodCarving #ChipCarving completed today!

The cross I carved won Best of Show in July

I've been busy with work, woodcarving, clowning, farm chores, teaching classes, canoeing, and other stuff. Under pressure, I have produced some of my best work though! New #ChipCarving work

Five Toulouse goslings hatched out. it's fun to see them grow!

Sixteen #ChipCarving designs in progress, all based on six equal divisions of a circle.

My brother showed me this Picaso picture I created for him many years ago. I copied Picaso's peace dove sketch and signature, burned the lines and painted it with acrylic paint. This piece of pine had a natural horizon line. Doesn't have to be fancy to be cool. #Pyrography

Progress before I created more unfinished projects! Haha. #WoodCarving #ChipCarving

I did a demonstration on how to use a compass and ruler to divide up circles to make your own chip carving designs. All five of these rosettes started out with six equal divisions of a circle. It's easy to learn and creates great variation by dividing up the interiors. #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

I wrapped up all my Spring classes. Now I sigh and breathe. This Spring, I taught three Pysanky workshops, three chip carving classes, led a kids articulated fish puppet workshop and used them in a Mayday parade, and attended a forty-hour Naturalist volunteer course. Plus, diving a schoolbus daily.

Greenwood-bird carving, phase one: Rough out the blank from a log, using axe, knife and saw. Phase two: use one knife to round and shape the bird. #WoodCarving These Buckthorn birds are especially cool to me, because I am carving these from an invasive tree that I helped clear from a local park.

Another successful Pysanky class today! Another seven new Pysanky creators for Ukraine! #Pysanky #PysankyForUkraine May Good prevail over Evil!

Pysanky class success! I had a wonderful time today with these lovely people creating #Pysanky #PysanyForUkraine

I'm preparing the new jars of dye for my pysanky class on Saturday!

The day-before yesterday, I was excited to see the signs of Spring all around me. A pair of swans had returned to the little slough behind my workplace. Also a pair of mallard ducks were there swimming near the swans. Yesterday a snow storm, today it is winter again. #Nature

I finished Pysanka number four from the Ukrainian Design Book 1. And I started another unfinished carving project. (LOL) The Rochester, MN woodcarving show is next weekend so I'd better get some more woodcarvings finished! #ChipCarving #WoodCarving #Pysanky #PysankyForUkraine

I just received the packet of 28 new egg dyes from Ukrainian EggCessories in Canada. And today I received the first goose egg of the season from my Toulouse goose! Now I'm eating the most delicious egg-and-ham sandwich. #Pysanky #PysankyForUkraine

Love prevails over Evil. #Pysanky #PysankyForUkraine

A perfect activity for a blustery-winter-storm day. Pysanky Prayers for Ukraine! #Pysanky #PysankyForUkraine

I'll be working my way through all the Pysanky books and patterns I have, and then I'll find more Here is Pysanka number 2, Ukrainian Design Book 1. I express my gratitude and honor the Teachers who have left such legacies for future generations. #Pysanky #PysankyForUkraine Love prevails over Evil

Im warming up and checking my dyes with my first new Pysanka in quite a while. This one is based on the first design in Ukrainian Design Book 1. #Pysanky #PysankyForUkraine Love prevails over Evil.

The table is staring at me! Or maybe it's waiting for me to drop some food!

Just to be clear, I stand with Ukraine. Scammers and haters, go away.

When I created my Clown Character, I went to the thrift store and scrounged around my house for whatever I could find to make a costume. It was an affordable and fun way to get into the clowning arts. I found these oversized canvas boots with a bulbous toe and painted them. #FebruArty shoes.

I want to be a light in the world, because honestly, that's what brings me joy. I still struggle with other people's self-centered actions that cause others harm, in the guise of doing right. Liars and scammers create suffering. Russia's war in Ukraine is evil in deed. #BlueSkyArtShow

What's my angle for the last day of #JanuArty? Designing my own 'rosette' patterns for chip carving using a compass and ruler. My first chip carving instructor taught me how to do this. I teach this in my classes now. Get a compass and ruler and try it out! #ChipCarving

Here is a special double-edged knife I created as a gift for a friend. I'm waiting for Spring. Basswood, woodburning, watercolor paints, oil. I will create another one. #JanuArty green as the plants that heal us, a bird for the gardens we grow. With love, the seed we sow.

A really talented chip carver to follow! #JanuArty #ChipCarving #WoodCarving

There are many kinds of surface decorations for wood. Besides painting, I present the three forms I use, which modify the wood in some way, rather than cover it up. Chip Carving, Pyrography and Kolrosong... #ChipCarving #Pyrography #Kolrosing #JanuArty

If you want a peaceful, loving way to help people in Ukraine, I highly recommend this amazing organization. Micto Dobra, or City of Goodness, is a women and children's center that provides refuge for abused women, their children, women and children fleeing. They are also an orphanage.

I facilitated a woodcarving workshop all day today, with two neighbors who wanted to carve birds. In addition, I worked a little more on these spoons and an egg. #JanuArty

Hey #JanuArty friends! I'm going out of order for prompts or even off list, because what I'm working on may not fit. Not everything I work on works. Here is a "broken" musical spoons from rotten silver maple.

A sweet-heart #JanuArty (WIPs). I'm making some sweet Valentines-day necklaces. And a little cherry bird and heart charms. More tomorrow! It's the weekend! Woo hoo!

For more inspiration than a single person can handle, a list of lists to follow! Don't forget #JanuArty

Opposing spoons make music. That is, When they are complete, they will. #JanuArty does anybody ever wish for less time?