[Ashbys]

Kathy .

GRATS !!!!!! !

Great frist show for you .

Garry

[Canopener]

Yup; the show was pretty darn good. It may not be the biggest show, but there is definitely some high quality work being shown, nice crowd and friendly vendors. I enjoyed it.
Kathy did us proud. Even though I missed seeing her in person, [I seem to have a problem with my days of the week] I recognized 3 of her pieces right away. They were very colorful reliefs of flowers, the 2 seconds and one first. Sorry I missed the other 2 blue ribbons.
I talked to Lori for a short while about her story concerning her cat, some spiders, a glue trap and trying to get the cat out of a tree with the glue trap stuck to its behind. If you are owned by cats, you know how funny this is. Anyhow, she is a nice lady.
They also had a whittling contest and I was really impressed by how much carving can be accomplished in one hour by seven guys; 4 pros, 3 regular guys but ahead of the herd. The pros were Dave Stetson, Skylar Johnson, Jon Nelson and Gil Drake the knife and tool maker. I promptly bought some more tools from Drake, hoping for a little luck to rub off; but I think a class or 2 with Dave Stetson might be more realistic to help my carving.
Lots of fun and learned a bunch, see ya next year!
Jim

[Baldy]

Hi to all of you who make this show. I was there on Friday at the front desk when you checked in your carvings. Had the flu which was getting worse as the day wore on. I didn't make it on either Sat. or Sun. so didn't get to see or recognize anyones carvings except Nedra.
Next year I think we should have a sign in sheet for WCI members and we would at least know who we were talking to.
As a favor to me and all of those who did not get to the show. How about it, if you all put some pictures of your entries on this line and let the rest of us see them. Also let's see what the ribbon winning carvings looked like?
Dick Berg- Baldy

[Mottles]

Hi Baldy, hey a WCI sign in sheet, how cool. Also, we can wear our WCI pins BobD is considering having made up. By the looks of the response I think it's going to happen.
Here are some images I took from the show. This was the Novice Catagory, my three blue ribbons knocked me out of the Novice catagory for next year. So I have to move up to Intermediate catagory. Yikkes! Oh on the last image the Wizard with the Blue hat is mine. The note that the judge left for me said 'if the eyes would have been even, it would have been a blue ribbon. In the second image the painted relief is mine.

Jim, sorry we didn't go on the same days, but there is always next year!

Thank you, Ash it was a fun show and a good boost for me. LOL