A long-winded back story to this…….sorry!! 🙂
Back in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s my wife and I were looking for a new hobby to wile away our already full non-working hours!!!!! On researching the courses on offer at our local Adult Education Centre we came across an evening class on wood carving. Unfortunately the course only ran for 2 or 3 terms but it was enough to get us hooked on the hobby, at least for a few years, until we found singing….LOL
Anyway what you see here is some relief carving of part of one of the panels I did depicting our then life interests since our marriage in 1972 until the time of the carving in 1991. I had this idea that ultimately I would use the panels to decorate a frame of some description, possibly a mirror.
Now I’m not always the greatest at putting ideas into practice for myself [although I readily do so for others!!!] so here’s the nice part. My wife, unbeknown to me, collected the finished panels from the box I had stored them in until I got round to doing something with them and arranged with one of her then work colleague’s husband, who was a carpenter, to get the panels mounted on a wooden frame surrounding a mirror and then gave this to me as a birthday gift. Nice touch, eh? I should at this point tell you that the frame, mirror and 4 corner piece mouldings were not my work but those of the carpenter. All the other panels were my my amateur attempts at wielding a variety of wood carving tools on solid blocks of wood although, for the life of me, I can’t remember what sort of wood it is!!!
So there you have it and if you’ve managed to read this far, "Well done!" and you will have the advantage of knowing that the whole of this particular panel depicting my start and finish time serving in the Royal Navy, together with another image of the whole mirror, can be found in the comments below.
Thanks to all who view, comment upon and/or "fave" this image. Your time taken to do that is very much appreciated.
HMM to all in the Macro Monday’s group who’s theme this week is "Handmade". 🙂
