Carved from a piece of a several hundred years old chestnut beam taken out of the annex of our rebuild, the density of the wood makes it more like carving stone than wood, yet is warm to the touch when holding it.

8 by 2 by 3 cm.

Each one is totally unique, the one pictured is sold. fifty euros each.

Carved into live edged chestnut, pretty in pink with a shimmering sparkle given with the water colors the flowers are painted with, a mineral oil overlay protects and enhances the natural color of the wood as well as enriching the carvings colors.

This particular one is 11 cm tall and has a bonus maple leaf carved onto the other side and is free standing.

Aizawa Shouta, aka Eraserhead, slouching in a chibi/minion inspired carving, carved into live edged chestnut, free standing, 13 cm tall.

Carved into a piece of reclaimed chestnut wood, the five points of the star weave around a circle of protection.

In muted black and silver but can be carved to order and painted any color you like, either with magic or lovely fictional character relationships in mind.

28 by 19 cm.

Spring and new life returning, Sakura are a timeless beauty showcasing the ephemeral nature of life, these though will not fade as the seasons change. Carved into reclaimed wood, the beauty of old timbers are overlaid with the deeply carved branch, each flowers petals are a perfect red blushed pink.

Sakura Branch two is 20 by 55 cm and still has the old dovetail joints carved into the ends from its first life as a drawer.

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Solid eucalyptus wood, well over a hundred years old, is what I used to create this pocket fidget.  Its smoothe sattiny feel warms quickly in the hand and the smell is the calming spicyness of the wood itself. 

Can also be used as a fan pull.

This is the best one for making ink. It's not native to the U.K., it was introduced from the Middle East in the nineteenth century, although it was well known in this country in the medieval period. It would have been traded, along with Aleppo galls, throughout the Mediterranean. The marble oak gall wasp (Andricus kollari), like most gall wasps, has a really strange lifecycle. An asexual female (pictured below, right) hatches from the round marble gall on an English oak tree in late summer. It flies off to find a Turkey oak tree, where it will lay its eggs on the buds. These eggs hatch sexual wasps, both male and female, in the spring, and they mate. When the female is ready to lay her fertilised eggs, she finds an English oak and lays an individual egg on the branch. When the larva hatches, it produces a chemical that induces the oak to grow a shell around the area, and thereby encasing the gall grub in a safe, woody nest. When the gall has grown to adulthood, the asexual female chews its way out, leaving behind a tell-tale escape hole.
And while our oak galls have been harvested in Portugal, the lifecycle remains, as far as I know, the same.

We not only harvest the galls from an area of old growth farming, rich in insect life and very low in environmental toxins, we also keep the galls in a sheltered safe place for a year, just in case any late wasps hatch.

It might seem a bit odd but the data on when to safely collect is too hazy for my liking, and our ever changing climate is making what data there is even more inacurate so, just to be safe, we set them aside for a nice long time, just to be sure the lovely ladies have the best chance to escape the gall.

Not all wasps manage it, so occasionally there will be a pristine gall but mostly what we find have clearly defined holes in them.

We sell whole galls, although by the tie the post is done with them they will probably be rather cracked and broken.

We'll send you 20 galls in a mix of sizes, mostly on the large end of the size spectrum.