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...from Laura Dunkle's book: the blue bird of happiness. This one is about 3 cm tall (1.25 inches). The hardest part of this was carving the square stock scrap into an egg shape to be able to start carving the bird.
Piece looks great. Not surprising about the egg,,next to a perfect sphere, an egg is one of the hardest shapes to do well and have it look convincing because of all the constantly changing radius