Walnut Wonder

I love these slices of walnut heartwood/sapwood pieces I purchased recently. Did you know that the dark part of walnut wood is called the heartwood and the outside layer of white sapwood? Well now you know. All trees have a soft layer of sapwood on the outside of a dense middle of heartwood or hardwood. I have learned so much from a local retiree gentleman. Now that he is retired he requests grant money to go up into small airplanes and map Missouri farms near creeks and rivers. He knows that with some older farms the equipment used to plow the fields has grown bigger and bigger over the years. So when farmers are turning at corners of their fields they are actually loosing some of their land to overgrowth. He takes his findings to the land owners and helps them to utilize the land, clear it up and helps them to use that land to grow walnut trees. I think this is really interesting. So when they need to "fall" a tree he takes that wood home and cuts it up. Kiln dries some of it. Time dries the rest. This is our source for specialty wood. He is trying hard to convince me to switch from poplar to maple for my toys. We will see.

So with these slices my imagination gets to go crazy. I know that birthday's are the reason why many of you purchase things from my shop. I love being part of that! So I made this. It's a stage. For a child or children to act out plays and such with little wooden animals, gnomes or little things that they have made. I will be listing this one in the shop tomorrow if the weather perks up. I love the little wool mushrooms growing out of the bark! I love the vines for stage curtains. I love the grapevine curtain holders. I love the smoothness of the walnut wood and it's glow. I love making things like this! When I was a little girl I would have been overjoyed to receive this. Squeals!!

Happy Saturday!

Comments

[Brooke]

I adore this and have had to hold myself back from buying it :) We love our treehouse from you. The wood is amazing and your ability to create with it even more amazing. I perhaps love it more then Sierra as she is a bit young yet and I am sure doesn't appreciate it like me :) This will make someone very happy. If only shipping to Canada wasn't so blooming expensive!!!

[Lorilee]

Thank you Kristine! You always say the nicest things... *blush*

[kristine]

how cool is that?! forget about the kids, i want one for myself!!

very nice. :)