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It pretty much started with birdhouses. Sherri collected rustic ones. Mike thought that he could build them for her. We collaborated on the first ones. We kept the first one and gave the others as gifts. We kept coming up with more ideas. Especially since Sherri kept seeing bear faces in the aspen on our property. That's when we came up with our original aspen bear candleholders and lamps. With just a little touch of the woodburner here and there, other people could see the bears too. And, they seemed to like them.
Aspen bears are now on most of our art. We look for individual pieces of "knarly" aspen and pine that is standing dead or dead on the ground. Most of what we work with comes from South Park in Park County above 10,000 feet. From these, we try to create individual unique items. We work with various types of pines including bristlecone and beetle kill pine.
We are constantly coming up with new ideas to try. These can be a new type of wood item (like our aspen bear birdhouses) or a new way to embellish something (like our stone inlays). It can be something like finishing more of the aspen bear faces or making a new line of candleholders (such as our hobbit houses). We enjoy creating new items.
We started with old barn wood birdhouses. Then made birdhouses to fit over the observation ports on leach fields. We added our aspen bear birdhouses a couple of years ago. This year we added our aspen bear birdfeeders. Our pet diners came when we realized our Lovie girl (rescue puppy) needed to have her food and water up off the floor. We try to have aspen bears on the legs of each diner.
We're not sure what we will try next. Sure is fun to wonder!
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