This piece my son called "chips and dip". It is bur oak finished with tung oil. It was turned green over about a month, stored in chips(wood) between turning sessions. I did not get a chance to measure it, but it is about 11" by 3".
Hello Jen writing again. This piece is an Open form turning and was made for Our Dear Pastor and His Precious Wife, whom we are so blessed to not only have in the role of Pastor and his wife in our lives, but as our Precious brother and sister in Christ, and dear friends!!
Pastor is doing my son Chad’s wedding on June 6th, Oh what an amazing evening it was watching my son up there practicing for his wedding in the morning.
Oh how time goes by so fast, I remember the very day he was born, it hardly seems like 22 years ago, and all children are such a miracle and gift from the Lord, Chad’s life has been an extra special miracle to me, as he was born 14 ½ weeks premature and spent the first 3 months of his life in the NICU, and came very close to death several times, but I gave him to the Lord from birth, and God chose to allow him to live here with me, and seeing the amazing young man he has grown to be is so awesome and such a blessing.
You may be wondering what all this has to do with wood working, but I so look at the beautiful things my dear husband makes out of trees that the Lord has growing all over the place,and I think of the Bible verse, in Psalms 1:3 how the Lord says … “and he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season.” Even after we think a tree is gone, out of it can still come beauty.
I pray that like a tree my son continues to grow deep roots in the Lord, and that no matter what storms may come his way because of those deep roots he will survive. And that like a tree he bare much beautiful fruit.
May you have a wonderful blessed weekend.
Ken again, is't it great the way she puts some heart in my blogs. Thanks Jen
