Announcing New Projects for 2025

It is already March.  I plan to work on two main projects this year.  I have been working on them for a while, but I wanted to get a little bit of a head start on them.  As always, I wonder, "Am I going to be able to pull this off.  I have ideas, but sometimes I wonder if I have the talent to do them.  It is really just a means of procrastination.  I just have to get over that first reluctance to get started.  Now that I have committed to the projects for better or worse they are underway.

In 2013 I made a small carousel.  The animals were only two or three inches, and the entire piece was only a few inches tall.  It had only a few animals on it and no horses.  It was not motorized.  You could rotate the piece by hand.  I liked it because it did not take up a lot of space.  I disliked it because the rotating mechanism was a little noisy. Overall, I felt I could have done better.

This year I am going to build a larger carousel.  It will be about four times the size of the previous carousel.  This is going to be a long-term project.  I expect it will take up most of the year.

My other project for 2025 will be another pumpkin.  This year I want to make a Green Man pumpkin.  In case you are wondering what a Green Man might be, he is an anthropomorphic representation of the spirit of vegetation.  Generally, a Green Man is painted as being green and surrounded by leaves, fruits, and vegetables.  I plan to have the Green Man face on a pumpkin, surrounded by autumn leaves and nuts.  

The projects will run concurrently.  Some days I will blogging on one, some days the others.  Being able to switch between the projects will keep me from becoming frustrated when I hit those down days when I get tired of working a project and just want to walk away from it for a while.  

Anyway, I am working on the first carousel horse.  Next week's blog post will show the construction of the first horse from the beginning.