HomesteaderWife's Crafting & Sawmilling Adventures

[baymule]

Do you have any slaughter places near you? You could buy the cow heads with horns and decorate the skulls.

 

[CrealCritter]

I think that bent measuring spoon might be a candle snuffer. Just a guess

 

[baymule]

Maybe you should raise Jacob Sheep. Their hides are black and white-all spotty and wooly soft, and their skulls would have those 4 horns. You could decorate the skulls and probably get more for the skull than you could get for the live sheep. Tan the hides and make sheepskin rugs. Just throwing that out there.

 

[baymule]

These!

Spotty lambs 2020

7 days, 20 lambs, 0 sleep Everyone is doing well at around a week old though! Ten rams and ten ewes. I have a handful more that I bought late that will be lambing next month but this is most of them. Forgive the cell phone pictures, I figured blurry pictures were better than no pictures. I live...

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[flowerbug]

@flowerbug - I’ve actually got some sawmills pieces that were uneven trim offs I saved specifically for my first attempts at spoon making. I have a wood carving set on the Christmas wish list LOL!
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stirrers can be flat and are much easier, not much carving involved. spoons are a step up. when i was contemplating woodworking and furniture restoration as a hobby i always thought about doing bowls, spoons and stirrers as the basics that everyone likes and can use and don't have to take a huge amount of time (ok, well bowls can be a time sink too)...

we have some stirrers here that are great, most of them are at least 30yrs old, we use them almost every time we cook. the wooden spoons we have are decorative only. i've never used one. i'm not sure why, probably just habit...