Sunday, 7 July 2013

Just Whittlin'

I have been a really bad blogger of late.   Whilst I've been reading all the blogs I follow, I haven't been posting.   I think the oomph went again but I've been keeping up to date with all your wonderful work and I don't think I'm even going to try to catch up with comments - I'm so far behind, suffice to say, I'm back and enjoying all your splendid progress.
 
I have been doing some mini work but it's been in a sort of half-hearted fashion - a wee bit here and a wee bit there but nothing has grabbed my attention recently.    That was until the middle of last week.   I was looking through a National Trust book on conservation and which had some lovely pictures of the interiors of some properties - upstairs and downstairs.  
 
I wont say yet what it was that caught my attention to the point where I thought it could make a great mini scene - suffice to say the spark was ignited!
 
While the other half has been watching tennis (me, I'd sooner watch paint dry!) I've been up in my little hobby room whittling away.    I've never whittled before and I must say, it's quite an enjoyable pastime.
 
In case it's not patently obvious, I've created three cows' legs.   I may only need two but you never know when you might need a third cow's leg as back up!
 
 
 
I was motivated to create these legs myself by the exceptionally clever wood workers in blogland.   Without their inspiration, I'd probably have bought two plastic cows and cut their legs off so thank you for sharing your skills - I would never have done this otherwise..