One carver works on a bear while another begins carving a horse.
A tree for the main room of the cottage has been decorated and a carver begins a project.
A woman carver starts a carving project while a Nisse contemplates lunch.
A Nisse sleeping off a jug of "Sneaky Pete" will wake up to an unhappy wife holding a rolling pin!
A dog, cats, and some mice will all share the cottage.
Two Nisse are busy peeling potatoes to make the Lefse.
Ma Nisse slaves away at the stove making fresh Lefse.
Three Nisse and forest friend Skunk getting ready to move into their new cottage.
Three mischievous Nisse got carried away with their paint brushes...
9/1/2010 - shutters have been installed and base/trees have been stained.
8/7/2010 - base has been built and trees cut.
7/9/2010 - staining the shingles and medallion prototype.
5/17/2010 - installing shingles and preliminary medallion
design.
The 2010 Rochester Woodcarvers Festival of Trees project will be a "Woodcarver's Cottage" with the theme "Carving the Dream".
Chuck Johnson and Gary Berg are making great progress on the project base. The internal framing, siding and shingles are complete and they are applying the final details.
The 2010 Hiawatha Homes Festival of Trees will be celebrating their 25th Anniversary of the event.
To help celebrate the 25th Anniversary, our plan is for the club to carve any type of
tree ornaments that you think appropriate for the event. In the past, we have had a theme of "birds", or "Santas", or "bears" - but this year, anything goes. Carve what you like to carve and we can have a mixture of carving items to fill the tree - celebrating our history with Hiawatha Homes.
The Festival of Trees committee is working with a
carefully prepared list of carving items to be inside and near the cabin. If you have ideas, talk with the committee to see how they will fit into the appearance they have in mind.
It should be another great project! As we have updates, I'll add them to the web site... TomS.