I try often to learn something new each year. It does not always go well. My pie baking ended with one pie. Other initiatives fell apart for lots of reasons. But some projects stick. Usually I do variations of what I already like, for example, I want to learn portraits next year. One of this year’s projects was to try and carve something. They are taking over even after I have given half of them away. Or perhaps forced them on people too kind to refuse:) And I find I enjoy this, no screen and working on projects that are completed in a couple of days. So, I am striving for improvements and better painting. But it has been fun. All of these are 1” by 1” by 3“ basswood to start. Several I have had to adjust as the instructor on YouTube might be using a different size but I don’t have a saw and did not want to invest in one if the carving turned out like the pie baking. So with more than 32 projects complete, I am striving for one new one each week until January. Then I might buy a saw.
