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Preface

My biggest hope is that you have as much fun carving these characters as I had coming up with them.

I am so excited to share these projects with you! My one and only inspiration for everything is my three-year-old little girl. She has more imagination and character in her pinky finger than anyone I’ve ever met—which makes life pretty darn fun. She lives in a world of magic and fairies, talking animals, and all things cartoons … and to be quite honest, I’d much rather live in a world with talking animals and magic than one without. My goal with these projects is to capture that magic and wonder in a small space.

I tried to design carves that would be fun and new, and hopefully have a little something that everyone would enjoy. My hope is that as you go through the book and take on these projects, you can find ways to change them and make them your own. Carving books and patterns should be viewed as blueprints and guidelines, rather than hard-andfast rules. The wonderful thing about art, in all its forms, is that no two people produce the same thing—even from the same pattern. We all have our own artistic fingerprint, and that is worth celebrating.

St. George, Utah