I am so excited! I have posted enough on etsy to almost have a full page of listings! I am super proud so myself. Fingers crossed that the listings translate into sales :)

I have continued to work on carving the witch. I have thinned her some more and cut the top of her head off to make room for the hat. I also have worked on carving the hat. I still have a long way to go!

I am also starting to work on some more ornaments for the etsy store. From what I understand, I should start having more ornament sales starting around Thanksgiving. That makes sense. We shall see! :)

Here is what I have done so far on the teenage witch casting a spell. She isn't an experienced spell caster so she is crossing her fingers behind her back. So what spell is she casting? I was thinking it might be interesting to have her trying to change a toad into a prince. I was then going to attach the toad to a rotating section on the base, so you can see results and what she does about it.

I decided to take a break from carving ornaments and pins for my Etsy store. Instead, I am working on carving a pattern of a witch casting a spell. I came up with the pattern myself. So far so good. It is definitely a challenging carving since it is a character in motion. Hopefully, I will have it done in time for Halloween. The hardest part will be gluing on the one arm, but I have done that once before on a different carving and it turned out well. 

Sigh. I didn't sell one carving at the Living History Farms. There was hardly anyone there. In fact, no one sold anything. Oh well. On the bright side, I did get to chat with fellow carvers for 3 hours and make new friends. I also learned a lot from them too! So despite the lack of sales, I feel like I got my moneys worth for my time :) Tim gave me a piece of box elder to carve into something. Box elder has really awesome stripes of color in it so I am racking my brain as to what I could carve that would do it justice.

Getting ready to sell in person, well sort of. I am helping to demonstrate woodcarving at the Living History Farms. Selling is secondary to making people aware of how awesome wood carving is :) Here is a picture of my display so far. I know it is not that spectacular, but hey on a budget and with time constraints, I think I did darn well. I ran out of ribbon last night, so that is why three ornaments are on the floor. We are making an emergency Michaels run tonight to get more red ribbon!

I have two listings up on Etsy! It is a lot of fun posting things to Etsy, but taking good photos is really difficult. I am not happy with the photos for one of my listings. I guess I will just have to keep experimenting until I get it right :) I am hoping to add more items in the next couple of days.