Cat's Eye Carving

Christmas at Taurus Crafts.

I am incredibly excited about my first Christmas at Taurus Crafts. I have lots of  interesting new gifts that I have been busy making in between completing my commissions.

I have some Welsh slate coasters, pretty Chinese slate hearts-I can carve initials on these from £5 , candle sticks and obviously my firm favourites Gargoyles, Grotesques and foliage carvings. Prices start from £5.

My order book is fast filling up and I am trying to keep up so that there is space for last minute commissions, but please do not leave it too late to commission me.

For the difficult person in your life, why not buy them an hours carving class and then if they enjoy themselves they can come back for more! visit my page for more info.

There will be about 18 extra craftsmen and women to spend this weekend and next weekend, 3rd & 4th and the 10th & 11th December for the Christmas Craft fairs. visit http://www.tauruscrafts.co.uk/  for more information.

There is a real buzz around the place as everyone adorns their workshops with lights and wonderful green foliage. There is the smell of Christmas trees, pine and hopefully sausages cooking!!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and I hope to see some of you at my workshop!

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Christmas Presents.

I look forward to receiving your orders, but please be sure to get them to me as soon as possible in order to avoid disappointment.

I have some more slate tumbling at the moment for some new pendants and will be making some more candlesticks.

If you have any ideas for things that you would like to see please to get in touch via my contact page .

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Commissions

I decided to move into the workshop next to the one I was in. This will make me more visible at Taurus Crafts!

However it has meant that I have had to put all my commissions on hold for a few days!
Once I have got resettled I will be able to crack on and make up the time!

At the moment I am working on a pair of Acorns in cups and an Acorn cup on it’s own.
I am carving Forest of Dean Sandstone, which is very hard, but the finish will be lovely-I will post photos as soon as they are complete!

I hope you will be able to come and visit my new look workshop which has a more obvious shop area and working area!

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Having a shuffle!!

This weekend, the 8th and 9th oct, I will be having a shuffle around and moving next door to my current workshop-better light and position!

As a result, I will be open and offering 10% off all sales and commissions over £50 taken over the weekend!!

There is also Sausage Saturday with a Perry making demonstration, delicious hot food and local produce for sale. Sunday it is Kite flying and making-come along for a great weekend!
Visit http://www.tauruscrafts.co.uk/ for more information!

From next week my opening hours are changing. I will be open Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm.

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Carving a Green Man

Well Here is a short post on carving a simple Green man.

I have used my favourite stone, Tetbury limestone from Veizeys Quarry.

I cut it into an octagon and then drew on the design!

As you can see from the photos, I have gone all around the outside of the leaves and then cut down, cut the depth for the eyes and then repeated the process untill I can start to add finesse to the forms!

This took about 6hrs, it is 7.5×7.5×3 inches and could be mounted onto or built into a wall. It costs £125.

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