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Voyageur Festival 2022
Unlike last week’s event in Edmonton, Winnipeg’s Voyageur Festival was cold, windy, and blizzardy. We started carving on Wednesday, carved for 4 full days and into one evening, and were very happy to put the tools down at 5pm on Saturday. The block was an unusual size for Winnipeg (12ft x 10ft x 10ft instead […]
Interconnected (Winnipeg 2008)
Terry was just looking at Twitter when he spotted the following Tweet from Dan Harper of Winnipeg. It appears to include a photo of the piece we did at the Voyageur Festival in Winnipeg in 2008. It was called “Interconnected” and featured two faces in the front. The photograph was used on wine bottles promoting […]
Day 4 – We Finished
We finished in the nick of time. We were carving right up to 4:30pm today. After 68 hours of combined carving (Theressa and Terry full-time and Kara part-time) over 4 days of cold, wind, lots of sun during the first couple days and later on the last day, we put our shovels, chisels, sanders and […]
Day 3 (Valentine’s Day)- It did warm up … eventually
The day started like the previous two, except it was windier. By supper time it had warmed up, but we had already spent about 7 hours in the wind. Today, for something new this week, we went back to the site and worked after supper for a couple of hours. We were able to pound […]
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