Craft Сorner

[Olga Bondareva]

Lesley, when I look into any mirror I think to myself "This wrinkles are caused by smiles i give to all I love and sympathize!"
Any frame can spoil the beauty of the world in the eyes...

[KentGardener]

I love the flock of naked carved birds Olga.   

[partisangardener]

Looking nice the owls in the bowl John. Your Galanthus reginae olgae are doing fine. I was afraid the place I put them might be too soggy.  (They didn't show up like most others.) So I dug int the place where the label was to remove them to a better site I just made. They were just below the surface. At least 6 and some looked like flowering . I moved them immediately to a raised bed. I hope they didn't realise it.

I like the  fish most, the birds are quite good too, the butterflies look amazing,  a talented man. I never tried carving.
Dear Olga you shouldn't have started with a dragon as  first thing, usually people start to walk before they run.
But  it the right spirit. I like your ambitions, that's the right spirit. You get nowhere without trying, I hope to see your work here too quite soon.

[Maggi Young]

Those little owls (perhaps even  Little Owls?!!) are very cute.

Ian used to make carved birds but they tended to be more stylised than those of  the Czech gentleman.


 Olga : stick with making the dragon... after all, no-one has really seen a dragon, so who can say yours is wrong!!

[salamander]

Hello,
my sister has knitted this cute octopus:
Yours, Olaf

[partisangardener]

With a dragon no one is able to say, what could be wrong. The only problem, you must satisfy yourself, the hardest thing for my opinion. Don't be too cruel to yourself. Its the soul of the dragon which wants to come into this world through you.

[partisangardener]

Cute little octopus, nice fellow 

[salamander]

Hello Olga,
nice to have such a creative thread here. Your embroidery reminds me what my mother made in the past.
Hi Axel, your video is incredible. See you here or at www.garten-pur.de !
Yours, Olaf

[Tim Ingram]

When I worked in Tasmania some 30 years ago I returned with a small turned bowl with lid made from Huon pine. This wood grows incredibly slowly and can be worked to very fine detail. Even now when I open it it has a wonderful scent which reminds me of the amazing landscapes that these trees grow in. Wood is a marvellous material to work with...

[Lesley Cox]

What a lovely and interesting thread this is turning out to be. So many different talents from so many people. I don't do any of these kinds of things but would like to show you (but I don't have access) some of the superb carving done by the Maori people of New Zealand, anything from tiny decorations to go round the neck, to whole ships and whares (houses, meeting houses). Then there is the amazing tattooing with which the Maoris decorate their bodies. Evey part of the design is significant and tells of the person's or the tribe's history and ancestry. One man who comes to my market every week is literally tattooed from head to foot and is stopped dozens of times each day by people, especially tourists, wanting to take his photograph.

[Olga Bondareva]

Axel, Maggi
Yes I was too self-confident thinking I can do it easily.  I have to start from ladybird. 

Instead I've made a gift for myself.

[Olga Bondareva]

Lesley
It would be very interesting to see!

[Lina Hesseling]

Olga, what a nice diary. You are a woman with many talents!

Lina.

[KentGardener]

A few years ago I did an art and design course (one evening a week for a couple of years) and ended up with City and Guilds certificate in decorative glass work.  A few of the sample pieces I made and still have here.

[Lesley Cox]

These are really nice John and every one unique so the more to be treasured.

I see a dianthus there but where are the snowdrops?

Olga, your diary is very lovely and special, something for children and grandchildren to appreciate in years to come. You will only write nice things in it.