#carved wood box

[vintagehomecollection]

Antiques at Home, 1989

[merrymorningofmay]

new craft alert!!!

and it's the green knight again!!!

"but mari, why does the bride have a moustache" – my conservative dad upon seeing the sketch for this out of context

close-ups and ramblings below!!

so there are. layers to this. if it reminds you of a wedding, you're correct! if it reminds you of tarot cards, you're also correct!

i also accidentally Did a Gender to Gawain by placing him on the right, which in heraldry is the wife's side, but that only adds to all the gender the poem does to him, really

what's that!! a pentacle that is also a flower!! inside an axe??? aka the only design that wasn't pulled from romanesque bas-reliefs/that one ancient celtic sculpture/an anglo-saxon brooch that reminded me of the seasons wheel in the movie. i'm kinda proud of it ngl

and to round up the "green consuming and corrupting" theme, dried botanicals in resin in the lid!

[mastomysowner]

Jewel box: Rat on cheese

[fulldenimjackett]

as someone who was both a boy scout and a girl scout as a kid, girl scouts was such a scam

[desimonewayland]

Alexandre Noll (1890-1970)

Ebony box, circa 1950

Bonhams

[pastafossa]

I'm going to be really sad about losing a bunch of my art supplies/pieces so if that's not your thing, feel free to scroll by.

Nothing like going out to the garage to get some wood for your upcoming projects only to find there had been a leak, water pooled on the floor beneath the boxes in your work area, and had ruined a bunch of the wood you'd been painstakingly collecting for carving for years.

The irony: most of the wood that was ok? Common basswood that's easily replaced. It was mostly my rarer woods that were ruined.

Cherry, maple, walnut, cedar, buckeye. Woods with beautiful grains. Precious butternut that's going extinct. Gifts from my wood carving teacher and mystery wood castoffs from other woodworkers who didn't need them. Odd shapes and pieces I had plans for. Gone. Everything in this pic, from what's inside the box to what's in the can (some of which can't be seen) had to be tossed due to mold from the water damage. You can't put a price on this wood emotionally. I literally just want to cry. Fucking years, some of them already partly carved and I just hadn't had time to finish them since moving here.

The only silver lining I can think of is that I have another box of wood in the house, with some rarer woods in it. But this still really, really hurts.

[sp00ntaneous]

'Outside the Box' wooden spoon carved in Sapele wood.

[faithandarisadventures]

Intersections by Anila Quayyum Agha June 23, 2024 Peabody Essex Museum Salem, Massachusetts

[lunar-fey]

DGAKGDJDHDNDE MY MOM FOUND AND GOT ME A SAILOR MOON MUSIC BOX !???? 🥺

[july-19th-club]

got the draw weight of the painted bow from my dad (55lb!! good lord too rich for my blood) and he was immediately like oh i think your brother has an old compound somewhere . and i was like no i don't want to shoot compound. he's like but it's easier to draw. not the Pointtttttt nobody gets it i dont care how long it takes me to work up to even 40lbs i care about looking cool with an implement

[intertexts-moving]

OHH MY GODD FOUND A BOX OF TRINKETS IN STORAGE..

[merrymorningofmay]

aaaand it is done!! a wee john uskglass themed box, inspired by that one wall carving that appeared in the show for like 3 seconds

[countess-of-edessa]

the way people jump to the defense of video games whenever someone is like "what a stupid hobby to spend more than the barest amount of time killing effort on" really just reinforces to me that video games is objectively one of stupidest things to waste your life on

[handsometabbyc]

Hand carved duck box on my doorside shelf, because I thought the pun in Spanish was funny ('El pato del zapato' aka the shoe duck)

[darabeatha]

       He has brought you a gift to build together !

[treasuresnorway]