Since I haven’t added a new post on the site in a few months AND since one of my New Year’s resolutions was to add at least a post a month I figured it was time.

I was tempted to title this ‘Owl-pocalypse’ due to this:

Recognize anything familiar? Those Owls maybe? Those are ours, and the catalog they were featured in was Pendleton Home Catalog. So thanks to Pendleton we spent the period from August 2011 to, well, now, making owls. And more owls.

And our Owls aren’t just popular with Pendleton’s clients. The new items we designed for Lancaster Market are out now, and guess what? More Owls!

We worked hard to make sure our owl designs are different from our hand-crafted owls. If you look close, you’ll see that our hand-carved owls have hand-blown crystal eyes, and are much larger than our mass produced, cast owls. Our hand-crafted owls also come in many different paint patterns based on the different species of Owls. We’ve always branded our hand carved pieces, but now we add a special logo sticker to the backs of every piece just to make sure there’s no confusion about where an item of ours originated.

We’ve got a few other Owl related news as well. The images below are of our newest Owl creations- Flying Owls. These are based on a famous Native American pictograph/petroglyph inscribed on a rock in Colorado.

These were fun to make. They have hand-carved faces; carved deep for more personality, with the aforementioned crystal eyes and wings hand cut from tin salvaged from an old barn here on the farm. The two pictured are a Snowy Owl and a Barn Owl, but they could (and probably will) be painted in every species imaginable.

Since I’m on a roll with the web stuff today I’ve also updated our 2012 show schedule here. Keep an eye on it as we may add or drop some fall shows depending what our loyal customers order from Pendleton’s 2012 Home Catalog, which will feature some exclusive items we’ve designed just for them. Check in periodically for details.
Jac