Box looms that will be available when my shop re-opens

I will have 3 standard box looms and 2 mini's ready for sale in my shop on the 28th.  I also have 1 elephant design standard box loom  and the mini sheep box loom available for sell (you can see this in a prior post).   Here are some pictures before they are assembled.

Mini Angela Porter illustrations comes handmade carry bag and 2 heddles as shown and 3 more pattern heddles are available.

Mini Angela Porter illustrations comes handmade carry bag and 2 heddles as shown and 3 more pattern heddles are available.

Humming Birds standard box loom comes with one heddle, 9 more available heddle patterns are available for this loom.

Steampunk standard box loom comes with one heddle, 9 more available heddle patterns are available for this loom.

Dragon standard box loom comes with one heddle, 9 more available heddle patterns are available for this loom.

How to fix a bad carve

So... I really wanted a carving of this painting I seen on a news program hanging on the back wall.  I do not know who painted him and I've tried like heck to get the information but still do not have it.  I finally found an image of the painting that I could use.  I created a stl file of him.  My first and well it is actually awful and very amateurish to say the least.  But I carved it anyway, and as expected it was a complete failure.  You can barely make out that it's a man as you can see below.

So I sanded and sanded and worked as best I could with this carving and decided to use a dry brush technique on him hoping to salvage him as I wanted him so badly and just am not good enough yet to get a better carve.  Time is hard to come by so this will just have to work for now.  So I started and see hope as you can see below.

Then as with most paintings I've ever done I need to decide when he's done...I think he is but then should I leave the frame around him unfinished hard maple once I take the tape off?

So I take the tape off and sand off some of the stain that got on the frame, (I'll get the rest off later once he's completely dry) and I LOVE it in it's natural state.  The contrast is to me at least, pleasing...so once he is dry I'll get the rest of the stain off the frame and give him a satin or flat finish and place him in his own space in my home...  I'm loving it, just loving it, failure and all!

The end.... :) 

Time to catch up on what I've been up to.

Sometimes I just don't get to blogging like I want so this is just a catch up post on some of the things I've been doing and working on.  :)  Pictures are always better than words I think you might agree. :)  so without further ado...

The tiniest rigid heddle loom I've ever made, so cute

A standard Ski shuttle ( my other ones are super slim for a rigid heddle loom)

Now I have three different warp separators :) 

I'm going to start offering kits year round here are a few I've sold lately

and finally, I received this banner from Vista Print for FREE  yaaaaaaaaaa LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

oh... and of course I had to showcase my shuttles with it ;) .

Happy Weaving ALL!!!!

Some box loom designs from Handywoman

I decided to create a post with all the current designs I do for box looms so customers can take a look at what is available so this post is specifically for that reason.  :)

Two sizes available

The standard box loom designs are:

Playful Cat's

All things Wool

Humming Bird

Exotic Birds

Sketch Cats

Cowgirl

 Ram

Angela Porter the Illustrator designs

Dragon design

Birds and flowers

Elephant Designs

Steam punk

Scotland/Engand

Scribble Sheep (available in large and small versions)

And these are the tiny ones so far, these designs can also go on a larger loom.  The mini box looms come with a bag and two heddles with the option for 3 more pattern heddles.

Colourbox Dragonfly's

Driftwood with birds

Sassy Cheryl Christmas Designs

Colourbox Scribbled Sheep design

I'm working on a new design, humming bird drawing.