I have nearly finished carving the first shell. I received the glued up wood for the second shell this afternoon and am going to get my strong young son, Joshua, to help me rough out the wood for this one – so I can give my right arm a rest. I am expecting that it will take about 2 days less to carve the second one. A lot of the time spent on the first one was figuring out depths, shapes, sizes, etc. Once I have that, I can just duplicate it. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? It actually can be more difficult to match them exactly. I may be laboring on labor day in order to get these finished by next weekend. Isn’t that what labor day is for??? To work? As self-employed, it usually means that…
My wonderful and very patient husband, Stephen, and I are going to actually have a break this weekend. We both work for ourselves, and our days go from about 7:00 am until 10 or 11 pm. We sort of breeze by each other every once in a while and say “HI”, then go on with our day.
I hope everyone has a wonderful and relaxing Labor Day weekend.