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!