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<\/p>\nMaking more!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Memorial Day weekend here in Vermont is also Spring Open Studio Weekend. Since part of my work is at a museum of wood-carved birds, carving a bird in rubber stamp material was my not-quite-a-demo activity for an hour at the front desk. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Sometimes we do soap carving activities (fun! bubbly clean up!); sometimes we have wood carving \u00a0classes (there’s one June 22); and sometimes we hang out in the workshop and do a proper demo (staff time permitting).<\/p>\n
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I made stamp cards (set of 5 cards, just 1 bird) of the chickadee and barred owl and put them in the Museum gift shop. \u00a0Right away they sold, and the person that purchased them sent me some friendly and useful feedback and suggestions for more birds. That’s where this Great Blue Heron and Rose-breasted Grosbeak came from. There’s a Raven in progress too…\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Making more!\u00a0 Memorial Day weekend here in Vermont is also Spring Open Studio Weekend. Since part of my work is at a museum of wood-carved birds, carving a bird in rubber stamp material was my not-quite-a-demo activity for an hour at the front desk. \u00a0 Sometimes we do soap carving… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-fv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/bird-stamps\/","url_meta":{"origin":961,"position":0},"title":"Bird stamps","author":"Kir","date":"13 May 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Did I post the original birds post-it notes? 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