Snippety Gibbet

Last fall, I saved a chunk of spalted cherry that vaguely looked like a knife. Today I finished shaping it up. I guess you could call it a “spreader” or “cheese knife.” >  > 

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/03/first-carving-of-year-spalter-cherry.html

 Here are some of the drawings I have done since the last batch I shared.

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-drawing-day-2.html

 PYSANKY FOR TODAY This is the basic design for pysanky that I am working on right now. It is based off a design of Lorrie Popow’s . I think she uses ostrich eggs, which are much larger than ...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/02/pysanky-for-today.html

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/02/pen-and-ink-this-week.html

 I’ve been working on my yearly pysanky production. Only 2 out of 6 eggs came to a horrific end so far. (Fell off a table or work stand.) I’ll get better photos later, but here’s what...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/02/pysanky-time.html

 Looking through my photos just now, I found a photo of the wreath that I made before Christmas. I had been wanting to make one out of a bike wheel for a long time. My wheel gave up the ghost la...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/02/bike-wheel-wreath.html

 A friend of mine posted on Facebook, drawings she was doing for a challenge. The goal is to do a drawing every day this year. I thought this was a great way to motivate myself to draw, so I joi...

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 SANTA’S WORKSHOP PAPERCUTTING Here it is January 19, and I haven’t gotten around to posting my Christmas card design from 2023.  Oops. It’s always such an ordeal for me trying t...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/01/scherenschnitte-christmas-cards.html

  VALENTINE’S DAY CARD This week I got all inspired to reopen an Etsy shop. I made a valentine design; cut it out; sewed it; and photographed it. When I went to upload it to my long ignored...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/01/etsy-or-no-etsy-cat-and-mouse-valentine.html

 I wrote this back in August, but I guess I forgot to publish it! So, imagine yourself reading this in the summer. It was finally nice enough to sit on the porch today and carve.  I had stuck...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2024/01/chip-carved-cherry-spoon-in-progress.html

SYCAMORE SPOON AND SCOOP WITH CHIP CARVING  I WANTED TO MAIL THESE TO A FRIEND WEEKS AGO BUT I COULDN’T GET MYSELF TO BOX THEM UNTIL JUST NOW. HOPEFULLY, I WILL MAKE IT TO THE POST OFFICE THI...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2023/06/sycamore-spoon-and-scoop-with-chip.html

Vacation memory from Bulls Island, SC. Lots of alligators there!

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2023/05/scherenschnitte-vacation-memory.html

  I was riding hills today on my road bike and came home to snip a paper cutting of that. I found this on my desk from last November. At the time I was working on rejuvenating my mountain bik...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2023/05/mountain-biking-again.html

This is for a scavenger hunt I am doing.  

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2023/01/scavhunt-winnie-pooh.html

 ANNUAL SCHERENSCHNITTE CHRISTMAS CARDS Oh, boy. I suck at taking pictures of white art work. Sheesh. But here are my paper cut Christmas cards this year. I first decided that I wanted to hav...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2022/12/my-christmas-scherenschnitte-cards-for.html

These are some of my hand carved spoons that I gave to a friend the other day. I gave her a bunch because I can never ever ever choose a spoon for someone that is the same they would have chose...

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 I'm starting to get back into a couple of things I haven't done in a while. Snipping and mountain biking. Both things require that I put in some practice time to get back into the groove, but t...

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 CHIP CARVING ON SPOONS This is the time of year when I pull out the carving tools.  Last year, I carved a bunch of spoons with the intention to chip carve them this year. Nice idea, but boy...

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PYSANKY FROM MUNICH AND BRATISLAVA  During my trip to Europe I picked up two pysanky eggs. (Why, oh why, did I only pick up two??????).  This first one, I bought at a lovely market in Mu...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2022/04/pysanky-from-munich-and-bratislava.html

 I just got back from Europe a couple of days ago. (My first trip over there!) We spent a couple of days in Budapest, which was a beautiful country with flavors of art that really touched my...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2022/04/hungarian-egg-display.html

I have probably only gotten around to making 5 pysanky this year and only have photographed one. But here it is. 

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2022/03/pysanky.html

 SCHERENSCHNITTE SELF PORTRAIT I had created a design for my TeachersPayTeachers logo a few years ago, but didn’t really like it as a logo.  As a design, however, I did like most of...

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 SCHERENSCHNITTE - PAPER FLOWER BOUQUET This is the paper cutting from the drawing I showed the other day. I think I need a little more height in the middle, but it is okay.  What I need...

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2022/02/scherenschnitte-second-3d-flower-bouquet.html

 SCHERENSCHNITTE - 3D - FLOWER BOUQUET #2 I liked the idea of the 3D bouquet, so I continued working with that theme. Here's the line drawing I am going to work with today.

https://snippetygibbet.blogspot.com/2022/01/Scherenschnitte-design-flower-bouquet2.html

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