Welcome to the Second 2009 Edition of your Chipping Away Newsletter
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Great Offer for Carving Club Members!
In an effort to both stimulate business and at the same
time show our
appreciation to
Carving Club Members
we are NOW offering Club Members a
10% Discount
on All*
Purchases over $50.00**
You can see the details on our website under "Carving Club Members"
*There are only 7 exceptions out of our 4,000 products see
details on our website.
**Before Taxes and Shipping
We are not sure at this point how long we will be able to continue this program
sso take advantage of it while it lasts.
Father's Day Special ~ 20% Bonus!
Father's Day is June 21st this
year.
Buy Dad a $50.00 Gift Certificate
(ON-LINE ONLY - no phone orders)
and we will add another 20% to show our appreciation for him too!
Heck ...if you want, you can even buy one for yourself!
How does it work? ...well for every $50.00 GC's you purchase,
we will give that GC a value of $60.00.
You pay for a $50.00 GC and we give you a $60.00 GC!
You pay for a $100.00 GC and we give you a $120.00 GC!
This offer is valid only until Father's Day, June 21, 2009
-and on-line only!
New Book!
Here's a great new book by Frank Russell ~ and just in
time for you to consider
if you wish to carve an ornament for our Children's Wish charity project (see
below)
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Learn all the steps necessary to create unique carved wooden Christmas tree
ornaments. 132 clear color photos illustrate every step for a songbird project
and 23 additional patterns. The text includes necessary references for feather
parts, types, groupings, and texturing; eye setting or carving; the tools
required to successfully complete these projects, and instruction for painting
and sealing the completed ornament.
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Click on book cover photo to buy a copy now!
It's that time again!
Children's Wish Foundation & Chipping Away
Need Your
Help
We need Carved Christmas Tree Decorations
Please don't wait til the last
minute ...the kids need YOU now!
Many of you already know that
Chipping Away is a supporter
and does volunteer work for Children's Wish Foundation. One of their
fundraisers is a Christmas Tree Raffle. A number of companies and organizations
sponsor an artificial Christmas Tree, or seasonal adornment which are put on
display in a shopping mall. Volunteers sell raffle tickets and the donor then
puts his ticket slip into the box in front of the tree or adornment he would
like to win. Proceeds from the ticket sales goes to MayCourt (they support
various charity homes for women) and Children's Wish Foundation.
We helped raise $24,000 with our 2008 Christmas Tree Raffle.
Please consider carving a
decoration for our tree! We suggest you start working on your carving right
away as we need to receive them by October 2009. Please put your initials and
your State or Province on your decoration.
The carving can be of a Santa, Snowman, Angel, Christmas Tree, Snow
Sled ...really just about anything with a Seasonal Theme. It can be painted,
stained, or left without a finish at all, the choice is yours. The only
requirement is that the ornament be of appropriate size and weight to be
supported on an artificial Christmas Tree branch ...NOT too big please! If
you could add a
small screw-eye or means of attaching a string that would be great!
Mail your ornament to us - DO NOT send via UPS or FedEx PLEASE.
Christmas Tree Decoration
c/o Chipping Away Inc
808 Courtland Ave East
KKitchener, ON N2E 1Z2 Canada
Fred Zavadil has a new website
this extremely talented professional carver has a
wonderful new website ...we recommend you have a look.
just click here.
Wood Carvers are the Greatest!
The Lancaster County Woodcarvers of PA hopes to schedule a project
night at their club for making Christmas Ornaments for our Children's Wish
project.
But ...here is another of their charitable works as outlined in a letter to Pop
"After 9/11 the club felt a great need to do something for the families of those
who
lost loved ones during the attack. The club members did what they do best,
they carved.
The number of carvings completed was 300; and they were taken up to New York on
Halloween of 2001 and donated to the children. They then went a step
further; the
'word' was put out on the internet. 600 additional carvings were received
from
across the country. These too went to the children of NY.
Each year the Lancaster County Woodcarvers of PA holds a show and 2009 will
their 36th. At each show they have a charity raffle, for many years their
charity was
The Make A Wish Foundation. They have also contributed to The Schreiber
Children's
Rehab Center and this year will be their second time to Support Our American
Recruits.
The SOAR charity collects items that may not be available to the troops and
ships
them to a unit overseas. The charity is headed by a group of women that
have loved ones in the service.
Tony Wispinski's humble beginning!
Tony lives in Smoky Lake, Alberta (approx 60 miles
northeast of Edmonton), and
taught Joyce Buchanan (author of Carving Woodspirits in Tree Bark) how to carve
woodspirits ~ and he just happens to be an old friend of Pops!
His DVD "Bark Carving Made Easy" is very popular and sold exclusively by
Chipping Away.
It was back in 1962 when he bought his first carving tool from Woodwards
Department
Store for $1.49 ...and as they say "the rest is history"!
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tool came with 4 different blades
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Fall 2009 Classes at
Chipping Away
We have 2 excellent classes scheduled
so far!
click here for details
Rick Jensen - 3 Day Class Carving a Magical Tree House
In-The-Round
Rick Jansen, an internationaly recognized author
and award winning carver, has been
carving since his younger days while growing up in North Dakota. Now
living in
Northern Minnesota, Rick has been seriously carving for the past 24 years
and
teaching for 14 years. Come prepared to use your imagination and have a
great time learning a new and distinctive approach to bark carving.
and
Pete LeClair - 3 Day Class Carving a Caricature Bust
Pete, author of three books, Carving Caricature Heads &
Faces, Carving Caricature
Figures from Scratch and Carving Caricature Busts, is a retired Operating
Engineer,
living in Gardner, Massachusetts. He began carving caricatures in 1973.
In 1978 he started teaching carving in the adult education system in the city of
Fitchburg, MA. In 1990 he started showing his caricatures at woodcarving shows
which led to requests to teach seminars throughout North America and Australia.
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Does Your Carving Club have a Competition or Show Coming Up?
Chipping Away is happy to help sponsor your club's show
by providing a coupler of $25 Gift Certificates. Just have your Show Chairman contact Pop!
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