Idea Bag

[Buffalo Bif]

As I whittle along there's always a list of things I'd like to whittle, when I come to the end of a project it's time to choose the next. That's not always easy, in part because the entire list is interesting to me, and in part because I typically keep the list in my head and can never access the whole thing at any given moment.

So now I write all my future projects on little slips of paper, and keep them in a lunch bag. When it's time to pick a new project, (and I don't have any urgent requests)somebody in the house reaches into the bag and pulls out a slip. The rule is I'll whittle that project no matter what. Last slip was 'Another Chess Piece', so I did the knights. I did the bishops a while back, that slip went back in the bag with the hope that someday I'll finish the set.

Its fun. I'm looking forwar to the day someone pulls out a slip I did not write....

[BrandantR]

Hey Brian, that's a great idea. Like you, I have kept a list in my head of future projects. I don't think I'll play the carving project lottery like you, but I think if I wrote them down, I just might remember all of the ideas that have come to mind. Thanks for sharing.

[Eddy-Smiles]

Brian... God bless you! You've got more patience than I have! I couldn't wait that long to finish a project!

[Kadiddle]

Sounds like evry drawing is a winner. Great idea!
Carve On,
Kadiddle

[kdispoto]

I don't own a bag big enough

[Buffalo Bif]

LOL Ken, on the bigger bag thought.
Eddy, I guess I'm in no real hurry on the chess set because I haven't figured out what to do on the pawns yet- half the set, no design.

[Robson Valley]

I keep all my musings in a proper 6" x 9" sketch book +/- watercolor notes. I'm into book #5.
Did promise myself that I'd never tear out a page and that I'd use both sides. Flipping back through the pages, I'm amazed at the "cross-pollination" ideas for one thing which apply to another. Father came to visit on his way to winter holidays, I caught him razor-blading out the pages he liked; took them home and had them framed.

I like the grab-bag idea. Maybe you need an ornately carved box instead?

[Buffalo Bif]

'Ornately carved whittling lottery idea box' just went in the bag, thanks RV. I have a spiral for sketches too, one for whittlings and one for knives, neither is full tho. Many things in the idea bag have no sketches, some never will.

[Dileon]

I bought a blank book from Borders, and I write down all my ideas and sketches. I have a few books that have great ideas still to made from twenty years or more.

[Jim Hiser]

Great Idea Brian, I'll have to try that one, maybe get some of the pages from my sketch book into carvings.
Jim