Jenna and I first met Chris just over a year and a half ago. We met him at Millsite Park. Jenna and I had been walking around and Chris was looking for the perfect stick as he had a request for making a cane similar to his (see this post)
I thought that would be nice to have a custom-made cane for myself, and thought I would start collecting words that might describe me and ask him how much he charged. Chris said he walked in Millsite all of the time. That was the only time that I saw him. I don't even know his last name.
When Roland was playing Friar Tuck in Hi, Ho, Robin Hood, he had stripped one of our wild junipers to make a walking stick for the character. I decided that when he was through with it, I would adjust it to my own needs. I would strip the wood, sand the stick and start a decoupage. I decided to use more photos than words. Instead of multi colors, I hoped to keep them in the same color as the wood. It didn't turn out as I expected, but there you have it:
My custom heirloom walking stick:
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| stripping down the bark |
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| printing pages full of words and pictures |
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