Some new weedpots

The farmers market season has already begun. Most weekends will find me at Antigonish on Saturday morning between 8am and noon. I just started a twitter feed, so you can get more uptodate information of my whereabouts at twitter.com/SeafoamWoodturn.

This week I made some weedpots. Some are quite unusual, having natural edges and the like. The large ones are Black Ash, the ones with the bark still on are Striped Maple.

Fall 2008 markets

I have a quite heavy schedule this fall season for your Christmas shopping pleasure. I have three venues in Nova Scotia, and one in New Brunswick - Antigonish Farmers' Market, Moncton Market, Festive Craft Market (NSAC Truro), Sunnyside Mall Craft Market (Bedford).

October 11 - Antigonish
October 18 - Moncton
October 25 - Antigonish
November 1 - Moncton
November 2 - Sunnyside Mall
November 8 - Antigonish
November 9 - Sunnyside Mall
November 15/16 - Truro
November 22 - Antigonish
November 23 - Sunnyside Mall
November 29 - Moncton
November 30 - Sunnyside Mall
December 6 - Antigonish
December 7 - Sunnyside Mall
December 13 - Moncton
December 14 - Sunnyside Mall
December 20 - Antigonish
December 21 - Sunnyside Mall

Market schedule

Here is my schedule for the markets I will be at for the next eight weeks:

June 14 - Moncton
June 21 - Antigonish
June 28 - Antigonish
July 5 - Moncton
July 12 - Antigonish
July 19 - Moncton
July 26 - Moncton
August 2 - Antigonish

Moncton Market is open from 7am to 2pm, and Antigonish Farmer's Market from 8am to noon. After August, the plan is that I will be rotating alternate weekends. I have teamed up with Mary from Fibrepalooza so that between us, we can commit to take a space at these markets on a regular basis. This makes it easier for the market managers to assign a permanent spot for us, while we get to go to different locations.

Pictou Weekend Market opens for the summer on 21 June and you can visit my booth there on Saturday and Sunday from 10am till 5pm.

An audio-visual presentation

I just love free stuff online. Don't you? Here is a neat little service that made it easy for me to create an audio-visual presentation of some of my work. Enjoy!



The service is called Animoto, and the music is Coquetry by McKenzie Stubbert.

The latest crop of dibbers

Many people believe that I spend hours working at the lathe, but the reality is that woodturning is more like gardening. Here is the latest crop of garden dibbers emerging from a bin full of wood shavings.


I'm just about to go and harvest this crop and treat them with linseed oil, then they will be ready to go to market.