Christmas Presents

Handmade gifts are the best... but there is a catch in making them. Sometimes they turn out so well that you would really prefer to keep them.

This is a salad fork and scoop from plum wood.

This is a coffee spoon with hook from lilac wood (this time I sharpened the knives really well, so the carving was no problem).

And finally, everything together for scale.
Tomorrow I will let them go.

Peach Spoons and Other Things

I've carved several things since the summer but I always forgot to take pictures. These are two peach spoons for commission.

The spoon below was originally also a part of the commission, but I liked it too much and decided to keep it.

 

I got a small plum branch from a colleague who is learning to carve and so I carved this little spoon from it (design by Spångossen):