Starting a new craft – Woodwork

When I needed to name my blog I was deeply into pottery and anyone who saw me doing that was sure I will always be doing it. Yes, I love pottery. Still do. But I knew myself enough to know that hurdles along the way might end the love affair and I’ll move to a new medium. After all, I’ve done glass: stained glass, fused and slump glass, cast glass, moved to making beads and jewellery and I love working with glass. My blog then was ‘shyglass’. When I moved to clay (and that story is on this blog) the immediate thought was to name it ’shyclay’ but then I remembered the fate of the old ‘shyglass’ page so I decided on ‘Crafts’. This way I wouldn’t need to change my blog name every time I change my current material of choice. Because that is all it is. I still make beautiful things, just in a different medium. Ands it’s fun. So join me on my new trip working with wood.

My first adventure was carving a spoon and my second was building this box which is designed as a paper drawer. I’m working on a shelving unit to be my pottery display. Some of my earlier wood work is told in this blog.