Archive for November, 2020

Bookends

Friday, November 27th, 2020

I have a small selection of bookends available to buy from my shop at the moment. I have a pair that I have drawn ready to carve with a Greenman design and I hope to get them carved before Christmas. [nggallery id=460]

Carving a soldier

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

I started carving the WWI soldier on the new war memorial for Mitcheldean and Abenhall yesterday, I made a short video of me starting to rough out around the outline of the shape. Carving my soldier - YouTube  I made excellent progress today and here are some photos including the photo of ...

Celebrating 15 years in business.

Sunday, November 22nd, 2020

15 years ago I took the plunge and set up Cat's Eye Carving, I left behind a regular income, paid holidays, sick pay and weekends off. I have never worked harder in my life but the satisfaction I get from doing what I do is worth every hardship. My friends, ...

Some new Christmassy things

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

It takes some time before the items I carve or create are ready to go on the shelf but here are the latest things for you to see. The words that I carve are designed directly onto the stone so that it suits the space it is in but it is ...

Go away, don’t go away.

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

I can finally turn my attention to the sculpture that I designed and started back in March. It was a visual feeling from that moment in time. I don't think that I can part with the sculpture but due to a commission being cancelled I have the perfect piece of stone ...