Yew

Hi all,
Hope you had a cracking Christmas. Mine was quiet and peaceful and, as usual, it shot by like a rat up a drain pipe. Every year s the same, I imagine that I'm going to have loads of free time for doing a bit of woodworking and some drawing but it never happens. Somehow the time just seems to get frittered away.

Before Christmas I managed few bits of wood turning that I did for presents, including 9 pens and the items below.

This was a small wood lidded box that I turned as an extra for my granddaughter.

This was a spinning top and base made for my grandson.
 For my wife I made a few things including thees pieces of fruit.

And a pen turned from a piece of yew.

They are all very nice and I really enjoyed turning them but I didn't have any time left over for drawing and painting. Ha well shouldn't moan, it's great to be creative no matter what the medium and I'm looking forward to 2017.