This wallet was quite a project! A man contacted me wanting a really special gift for his wife on Christmas morning. She had been very close to her grandmother, who passed away a year ago, so he thought a hand-burned portrait on a leather checkbook cover or wallet would be just the thing! He texted me a couple of different photos to choose from, and we settled on the one below. I then began the search for a vegetable-tanned leather checkbook...
This wooden box was a Christmas gift client project I worked on during the month of November. This is for a teen sister team who have started their own, thriving small thrift-store business and mom and dad wanted to surprise them with a customer drop-box for items. This is the lid of a darling wooden crate for that purpose. The girls have an Instagram profile where they post items for sale. Locals have been dropping off their thrift pieces but,...
Episode 12 - in this live reading from The Golden Telescope – Book One in my Jack and the Magic Hat Maker middle-grade fantasy series, I read Chapters Twenty-One – Auntie Inez and half of Twenty-Two – Realization. In Chapter Twenty-One, we join Desmond Radcliff as he meets Ethan Mac Paidin and his adoptive parents, great uncle Thaddeus and great aunt Astrid O'Brien when they arrive at the airport in Stockholm, Sweden. We listen in as Ethan...
Episode 11 - in this live reading from The Golden Telescope – Book One in my Jack and the Magic Hat Maker middle-grade fantasy series, I read Chapters Nineteen – Transparency and Twenty – Vanished. In Chapter Nineteen, we join Bart and his dad, Bill, as they talk about Bill's connection to Jack's dad, Ross, and the rest of the Mac Paidin family. We learn about how and why Bill moved to Portland, Oregon from Dublin, Ireland and that Sir...
Episode 10 - in this live reading from The Golden Telescope – Book One in my Jack and the Magic Hat Maker middle-grade fantasy series, I read Chapters Seventeen – Confrontation and Eighteen – Rescue. In Chapter Seventeen, we sit in on a heated conversation between Jack and his uncle Earl and aunt Lizzie. We learn that they plan to take him on a trip to Europe in the morning, confirm they are having him followed, and take his cell phone so...
Episode 9 - in this live reading from The Golden Telescope – Book One in my Jack and the Magic Hat Maker middle-grade fantasy series, I read Chapters Fifteen – Hope and Sixteen – Escape. In Chapter Fifteen, we walk along with Arthur Loyal, the Mac Paidin family butler, as he once again visits the upper room in the mansion where he notices a second bright light blinking on the surface of the locator globe. In Chapter Sixteen, we listen in...
Episode 8 - in this live reading from The Golden Telescope – Book One in my Jack and the Magic Hat Maker middle-grade fantasy series, I read Chapters Thirteen – Waterfront Convo and Fourteen – Followed. In Chapter Thirteen, we tag along with Jack as he meets Bart at Portland's Waterfront Park and tells him about the conversation he had with his uncle Earl and aunt Lizzie. He reveals that, apparently, he is not having seizures, but instead,...
