Winning Santa carving

[Don by the lake]

Mark Akers,
Congratulations Mark. That is a very good carving! I love your style.

Don

[groozier]

Mark,
Congratulations on the winning carving.I had voted for it as the peoples choice.
groozier aka Lance Brooks

[Mark N. Akers]

Thank you Don and Lance appreciate your kind words.

[makenchips]

Way to go Mark. Your Santa is a real winner. Then again I like all your carvings. Will you be at the Dayton show? Would like to meet the man behind such great carvings.

[Mark N. Akers]

Makenchips:
Won't be at Dayton this year,but really looking forward to being their next year,thanks y'all for the kind words.

[woodtrapper]

Mark, I would just like to say congradulations.I only got to meet you for a breef moment last year in Tennesse along with Blake and Mitch.Forest(tnartist) and I got to see some of your work there along with other great carvers.I am realling looking foward to seeing more of your work.
Davy

[Callynne]

Congratulations Mark, great carving!! You must be on cloud nine! You deserve to be! Deborah</IMG>

[Fred Zavadil]

Congratulations Mark,
I love your Santa - I was one of those voting for him, glad to see him win.
Fred

[chpster90bu]

Mark, I just saw that you won the Santa contest!! How thrilled you must be and it is certainly deserved. He's just wonderful! I saw him originally in Carving Magazine and the one thing I admire about your Santas, besides the superb carving skill, is the expressions you achieve on those faces.....they have a gentle, sensitive quality about them that is just fabulous. I was thrilled to meet you last week, Mark, and congratulations on all that you've achieved! Well deserved!! Bonnie