Back to Sculpting!

Had a very busy week, had to go to Portland for work.  On Friday I had breakfast in Portland, lunch in Plain City, Ut. and then dinner in West Yellowstone!  Back home now and started sculpting some Santa's last night, I will post some WIP of the Santa's tommorrow.

New Items in my Etsy Shop

Just listed a bunch of new itmes in my ETSY shop, go check them out!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/countryhollow

Sculpted Halloween Gourds

Here's a few Halloween Gourds that I sculpted this weekend.  They will all be at the Kottage Kupboard show next week at Weber County Fairgrounds, Ogden Utah.

Stanley Idaho Show

If you have never been to Stanley Idaho, up in the Sawtooth mountains, you would not beleive how beautiful it is.  The below picture is one of the views I had out of the front of my booth.

This show was the first show for the new grid work display.  The grid work is so much better than my old wood display especially with the wind that kicked up every afternoon in Idaho.

I am now done with all of my summer items, got to get busy on Halloween.  I will try to post a bunch of Halloween pictures for you to see. 
Again, if you see anything you would like to buy just send me an email at thecountryhollow@msn.com.

Some new items finished for Stanley, Idaho show.

 I had this old sifter down the basement and decided to paint this great Zebra face on it.  I have a great big oil can that I am putting another Zebra on but it is not quite done yet.

This bowl is made out of a carved gourd.  I cut out the top of the gourd and then cut out places here and there between some of the leafs.  It is painted with several different shades of green, with yellow, gold, and mauve highlights.

 This is another carved gourd bowl that I just finished.  I painted two rows of daisey on it.

This is a very unique vintage teapot that I painted a dragonfly with cattails on.  It is based in ivory with several shades of orange and browns in the sunset.  The cattails and dragonfly body are all black, the wings are a very pale yellow with black details.
All of these items will be in Stanley, Idaho this Friday and Saturday for the Mountain Mama's show.

All Natural Gourd Birdhouses

 These three birdhouse are each made out of two gourds, their body is one gourd and their roofs are a separate gourd, the roofs are wired on.  Their shingles and around the entrance are toasted gourd seeds.  Their perch and the stick that the hanging wire is attached to are twisty willows.  These are all natural except for the coating of polyethylene on the outside to protect it from the weather.

 This birdhouse is all one gourd but finished in the same fashion as the three double gourds.

These two birdhouse are small gourds with the roofs made out of torn apart pinecones.

All of these birdhouses will be in Lamoille Nv. this weekend for a show that I am doing.

Sculpted Gourd Frog

This is a great Gourd Frog that I hand sculpted using air dry clay and a real gourd.

Her body is a old wood candle stick, her arms are posable.  Her hands are also sculpted, in one she is holding a sculpted bee and the other has a sculpted flower.  I made a ribbon rose to put on her head and added a piece of vintage jewerly for the center.  I also added a piece of vintage jewerly on the tie at the back of her dress.  Her collar is a piece of wired ribbon that I ruffled, the same ribbon is around her waist and the flower on her head is made out of the same ribbon.  This a a one of a kind original piece of art.  She will be going down to my booth at the Kottage Kupboard, Weber County Fairgrounds this afternoon, this show ends on Saturday, May 7th at 4:00.  The next chance to visit my booth will be in Lamoille, Nv. on June 26th and then Stanley, Id. on July 16th and 17th.