Christmas Ornament Exchange 2025

The recipient of my ornament is going to have to wait a little longer. Was supposed to be delivered today, but checked tracking and it just left Chicago. Spent three days there and was quoted "weather delays". Guess the bad weather prevented the box from travelling from the receiving side of the warehouse to the departure side...
 
Mike Hill said:
Here is my unofficial, unauthorized, and unsanctioned entry. My exchange partner, in his 1st or 2nd post on WB, stated that he loved pistachios, so voila, I was gonna do an ornament either out of pistachio wood or using pistachio shells. Well, I could not find pistachio wood in the size I wanted, so I opted for the shells, but ran out of time to do it and the other ornament. So, I finally got around to it, but changed to a WB ornament for the WB family. An ornament highlighting our own special WB elves - all nine of them! No wood was harmed in this juvenile, senseless, frivolous, brown-nosing act!

Marc and Tony
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Paul and Ken
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David and Eric
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Classic!
 
Mike Hill said:
Here is my unofficial, unauthorized, and unsanctioned entry. My exchange partner, in his 1st or 2nd post on WB, stated that he loved pistachios, so voila, I was gonna do an ornament either out of pistachio wood or using pistachio shells. Well, I could not find pistachio wood in the size I wanted, so I opted for the shells, but ran out of time to do it and the other ornament. So, I finally got around to it, but changed to a WB ornament for the WB family. An ornament highlighting our own special WB elves - all nine of them! No wood was harmed in this juvenile, senseless, frivolous, brown-nosing act!

Marc and Tony
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Paul and Ken
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David and Eric
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Greg and Matt
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Barry and Greg again
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The Tony is spot on … good job
 
Mike Hill said:
Here is my unofficial, unauthorized, and unsanctioned entry. My exchange partner, in his 1st or 2nd post on WB, stated that he loved pistachios, so voila, I was gonna do an ornament either out of pistachio wood or using pistachio shells. Well, I could not find pistachio wood in the size I wanted, so I opted for the shells, but ran out of time to do it and the other ornament. So, I finally got around to it, but changed to a WB ornament for the WB family. An ornament highlighting our own special WB elves - all nine of them! No wood was harmed in this juvenile, senseless, frivolous, brown-nosing act!

Marc and Tony
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Paul and Ken
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David and Eric
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Greg and Matt
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Barry and Greg again
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Well done tribute to the nuts that run this place!
 
trc65 said:
The recipient of my ornament is going to have to wait a little longer. Was supposed to be delivered today, but checked tracking and it just left Chicago. Spent three days there and was quoted "weather delays". Guess the bad weather prevented the box from travelling from the receiving side of the warehouse to the departure side...
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That's sad! The crazy thing is that I was in Chicago on Wednesday & Thursday of this week and the weather was chilly but I didn't think it was bad at all. We went from O'Hare to the Lombard area and back. Traffic moved along nicely.
 
I have only just now managed to put my ornament in the mail -- and I feel bad about that, but, well, it's been a busy month both for woodworking and for my official job. I apologize to @woodman6415 for being late, but the ornament should still get there by Christmas Eve. It's an intarsia, which I don't make often, and I'm second-guessing myself a little bit. . . but I hope it's OK.

@JonathanH, I got your box a week ago, but didn't feel I had the right to open it until I was done with my own ornament. So I'm going to unbox it after I finish cooking dinner. . .
 
Glad that it arrived. I was starting to wonder if it had.
@Cloud of Sawdust Farms

December has been awfully busy for a lot of us. My work and travel schedule has been heavy. When you add in the Christmas get togethers & woodworking gifts the time just got away from me. Next week we'll be out of town all week but visiting family, not working. I'm looking forward to the downtime.
 
Gdurfey said:
Amazingly, my dad did a little carving in retirement. He really enjoyed it but I never knew where it came from. He did encourage an uncle of mine and he became a wonderful bird carver and painter.

I heard it a bit differently Jonathon, I heard it as you carve away everything but the figure. Bit same thing, I just had a pile of whiling shreds at my feet. I never saw the creature.
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as close as i ever came to carving, is some distant relative with the same last name as mine.

his youtube channel should be inspirational to wood carvers

 
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Mike Hill said:
Here is my unofficial, unauthorized, and unsanctioned entry. My exchange partner, in his 1st or 2nd post on WB, stated that he loved pistachios, so voila, I was gonna do an ornament either out of pistachio wood or using pistachio shells. Well, I could not find pistachio wood in the size I wanted, so I opted for the shells, but ran out of time to do it and the other ornament. So, I finally got around to it, but changed to a WB ornament for the WB family. An ornament highlighting our own special WB elves - all nine of them! No wood was harmed in this juvenile, senseless, frivolous, brown-nosing act!

Marc and Tony
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Paul and Ken
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David and Eric
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Greg and Matt
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Barry and Greg again
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oh my gerd!!! That is so fantastically awesome!!!!
 
Very nice ornaments Tony! I really like your take on the snowman ornament. It's a neat way to "dress" up and ordinary hanging snowman.
 
JonathanH said:
Glad that it arrived. I was starting to wonder if it had.
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I opened the box yesterday and was greeted by a mango hollowform topped with Gaboon ebony finials. Thank you! This is indeed a snazzy ornament. I'm with @2feathers Creative Making here -- this overshoots my own abilities by a country mile. One of these days I need to learn woodturning. . .

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