In more ways than one!

First I’d like to apologize for our website being down over the weekend. It is part of a clerical issue we’re having with our current web hosting company, and revolves around the finer points of what the term ‘unlimited’ means. We’re back up and running now, but for a time there the site was turned off on their end. It wouldn’t have happened at all if they had simply emailed us to let us know it was possible, but for some reason they didn’t. We’ve had our site parked with them since the early to mid ’90′s with nary a problem, so I guess one issue in 15+ years is forgivable.

But that’s not why you, faithful customer and reader are here, is it? You want pictures! Well, after our marathon of four shows in three weeks (I’m including the show in Glenmoore PA at Up Home in that count, since we did contribute inventory to it!) we’ve got a large amount of *stuff* to get through before we can do a full update. But for now I’ll entice you with this:

This lovely crustacean was crafted especially for City Folk and our first Friday show there. In the first image it’s difficult to see the scale – is it small? Tabletop sized perhaps, just bigger than the real thing? Or is it Hollywood disaster-movie Will Smith sized? In the second image you can see Tricia’s hand on the wall. Yikes! That won’t fit into any crab trap I ever used. It’s not Fay Wray on the Empire State builidng huge, but it’s big enough. Or if you’re into the numbers, the Blue Crab topped out at 48″ wide and 35″ high. And 5″ deep, if you really must know. It is carved from white cedar, with the legs carved separately from the body – just in case I ever need to ship it somewhere (God forbid!). Each segment on the legs is carved individually, then pinned together with steel pins. This particular piece came out as close to our sketch as any piece we’ve ever done – probably due to the number of delicious specimens I’ve had the privilege to study first hand, in detail, at various newspaper covered picnic tables over the years.

There you have the quick update of the day. I’ll be back (didn’t someone say that in another Hollywood summer disaster movie?) with more images from our City Folk show in a few days. Thanks for the patience!

Jac