Something About Nothing

Woohoo! The alphabet is done! Individually the letters are pretty cool, but the real test is in how they work together. Okay, that is better than I thought they would be, but I do feel the need to create a few more letters. I think I need a few more lower case vowels. But can I say how much I love the word "zombie." And maybe some other letters in lower case. I'm loving everything with that tangled "b." I need an entire alphabet like that. But maybe I wouldn't love it as much? Hmmm  I think I need a break from letters for a minute.  Time to carve a pattern or something. Any suggestions?

I have a big mess of rubber scraps building up from this months challenge. It will get cleaned up eventually. In the meantime, more letters! If you have an Instagram account, you really should be following #carvedecember. There are so many great carvings being done! Did you know you can follow hashtags on Instagram. I think it's a great feature being able to follow people AND hashtags. 

My friend, Anneliese , gave me a sweet little gift to help with my font challenge. It's over 400 pages of font yumminess! And it's egged on my challenge - very tough to stop, especially when I should be cleaning my studio! At this rate, I better come up some words to carve to complete Carve December. Any suggestions? Anyone? *tap tap* Bueller?

Eleven down, only Fifteen to go! Did I mention I am impatient? Maybe I need to do more than three a day? Speaking of impatience, I wanted to see what the letters looked like in words.  Fun sentence, huh? I think I need to do more lowercase letters. Hmmm. . . 

More alphabet. What a surprise!  Don't worry, only a few more days and the entire alphabet will be done.

After messing up the B, and not liking the second one I carved, I tried it again and carved a lower case b I really liked for Day 3 of Carve December.  When I saw the post I decided I wasn't going to be happy posting one letter a day, so I carved three for Day 4. This will get me through the alphabet faster, which is good because I'm a bit impatient! This will allow me to carve actual words too before the month is up. Woohoo! The blocks of Eco Karve I'm using are 2" square but the letters are often smaller. Many of them are 1" wide and almost 2" tall. I'm pretty happy with things so far. Fingers crossed for the rest of the alphabet.

I'm challenging myself to get better at carving words and letters during Carve December. I feel like my word carving is terrible. I see so many flaws which I don't like. I always try to adopt the "hand of the artist" philosophy when it comes to my carving but I am having a difficult time when it comes to my word stamps. I feel I need to practice more, and perhaps be a little more forgiving to myself. We'll see which philosophy wins out at the end of December. I will post the stamps on my blog, and there may be extra stamps I will post only on my blog, however there may be some delays to posting here, so if you would like to see the stamps as I create them follow me on Instagram or my Facebook page . That was an odd way to say, follow me here on the blog, Instagram and Facebook! I started out carving a lower case "b" for Day 2 of Carve December. I was really liking what I made, and then I messed up part of it and started carving away more and more unti...

And so it begins! Another year of Carve December , as well as the 31 Day Blogging Challenge !  I'm doing my best to keep up without going crazy. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer has created a list of prompts for this year's Carve December. I'm not sure I will follow the prompts exactly, but I was excited to get started and so I carved a repeating heart design I am calling "Hearts Everywhere," in honor of my dear friend who passed away recently. She was always finding hearts in everything. I am calling this my Day 0 carve. I need to make this in to a fabric on Spoonflower. During Carve December I want to become better at carving letters and words, so I am creating an alphabet which will be made up of different fonts. I have been doodling different fonts in my notebook. Looking at this page makes me realize how similar they look! If you have any fonts you think I should try out, please leave a comment for me! I may not carve my multi-font a...