Let Christmas planning begin! or so my task calendar tells me. It’s August and time again to make my paper toys – our holiday ornaments announcing Hoss family gift giving assignments. And regardless of how our festivities may differ this year – who knows what our world will look like when December rolls around – this self-appointed task, important for love and family and normalcy must persist I decided. So I got down to work.
On this year’s toy brother Richard’s wonderful wood carvings are highlighted, his creative avocation since leaving the corporate world some years before. I put a call out to our family for photos of his work and everyone complied, sending their best images of carvings in their collection, gifts given to them by Richard over the years.
Here are a few.
I planned to use them all, or as many as I could at once for each ornament, to give each recipient a representative sample of Richard’s work.
A box within a box got the job done.
10 perfect sides for artwork display – six on the little inside ribboned cube and four more on its outer companion.
Happy holidays everyone, before we know it.