Sixth Annual Secret Santa Ornament C&T

Hope everyone is ready for another Challenge & Trade.  Your new challenge is to turn a Christmas Ornament.  Aah, but not just any Christmas ornament.  It’s similar to last year’s Ornament C&T, but it must be made from at least

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different pieces of wood or other material in any configuration. Whether laminated, segmented, mortise/tenon joint, or whatever.  And it must have some sort of hollow center, such as, inside out, hollowed or a shell.  You don't have to be an expert to participate, just give it your best effort.

If you want to do multiple trades, they don't have to be different, just label pictures as "#1 Inside Out" and "#2 Bird House".

We will open the gallery, 2014 Secret Santa C&T, by Sunday, November 23.  When you post your picture, send me a PM with your address.  Pictures must be posted and PM sent by 9am PST Sunday, November 30.  I will figure the round robin assignments using Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or and PM the results later that day.  Like last year, we want everyone to get these before Christmas, so all packages need to be postmarked by Saturday, December 6.  Have it packed and ready to go!

As was implied by the Subject Line, this will be a Mystery Round Robin style trade.  Everyone who participates will be assigned another member to surprise with their Ornament. Everyone needs to post here when they ship, but don’t mention to whom or where you are sending it, and again when they receive their ornament.  Don't forget to send a Thank You to your partner.

Please sign up here if you plan to participate, the more, the merrier and say how many trades you want to do.  But remember, if your picture is not posted, and you haven't PM'ed your mailing address to me, by 9am PST Sunday, November 30, you will not be assigned a trade.  Also indicate in your PM whether you are willing to pay the additional postage to trade with our Canadian and overseas members.

OK!  You have more than 3 weeks to do this.  Let's get out there and turn some ornaments!  If you are not sure you can handle this, go out to your shop and try some different ideas.  It may surprise you how easy these are.  Look at the galleries from previous years for ideas.
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We have had up to 16 members participate previous years.  Let’s see if we can eclipse that number.  We have a lot more members now.

“We dare you!”

For those members who are new and wonder what a C&T might be, here is our explanation.

C&T stands for Challenge & Trade.  We define the parameters of a challenge for you to perform.  After completion, you post a picture in the new C&T area of the Gallery.  Participants will receive a PM with name and address of the member they are to send the completed item.  They will receive one from the same person if we are doing partners, or a different person if we do a Round Robin trade.  If we are doing partners and have an odd number complete the challenge, we end up with the 3 final members in a Round Robin.  Sometimes like this one, we do a Mystery Round Robin where nobody knows whose piece they will receive until they get it.

Time to get busy and see if I can make some ideas become turnings.

I am in.

I think my shop will be up and going by then, so count me in.

Now let's see those Secret Santa ornaments

I'm nearly done.  We have a power outage today.  Had to back burner the finish for the moment.

Prototypes in to quality assurance for review --  Progress is being made.

Quality assurance has made improvements in design and released it for production.

Hunting for the __ity__ camera   
Now who to blame for this ????