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Originally Posted by TammyJM  Beautiful...you are very talented! Do you still do wood carvings?? |
Thank you. But I just create them. No wood carvings. What we did was to cut things out of wood and then stain and paint them. My hubby would cut them out of wood and I would do the painting when country stuff was popular. We made quilt racks - some with 3-D bows (there is a trick to making them) and other things.
My hubby did some jig saw work and Jimmy Carter has one of his pieces. Jimmy Carter was so impressed with the workmanship my husband did that he wrote a letter to my husband. We have it framed and sealed up now, since we noticed the ink was starting to fade a bit. There is a story with this one - We actually had a handwriter visit our shop and analyzed this letter for us - she said she could tell a lot by the person's handwritting. It was very cool. Jimmy Carter stated that he actually has this piece that my husband made in his own home and not in his museum. Jimmy Carter received what my husband made from one of Jummy Carter's friends as a birthday gift. They have a summer home in the mountains and they were all meeting there to celebrate. This was about 14 years ago now. Wow, how time flies. It was pretty neat though how someone so important took the time to thank and acknowledge my husband's work.