About Me

Hello! I’m Wendy

Chief Carving Officer

This all started in June 2020 at a family reunion in Montana (where I’m originally from). | wanted to whittle a little 3″ bear for fun. I thought it was cute but wanted to try again and do better. Well, after a year of whittling more 3″ bears (that ended up pretty cute), I thought “I wonder if I can go bigger?! I want to challenge myself and see if I can do it!”, so that’s when I asked my husband for a chainsaw for Mother’s Day 2021.

My family was totally against it at first… “MOM! We are not giving you a chainsaw!!! You’ll hurt yourself!” Then Ryan saw all the bandaids on my fingers from the little 3″ bears and thought, “if the chainsaw blade is away from her body, she’d probably do ok”.

That’s when I got my first chainsaw, and now 2 years later in 2023 I have 5 chainsaws and have my own business! I literally have no artistic ability whatsoever, but apparently I can see 4D in carving bears and other pieces!

Here’s my FAVORITE part about the carving process: putting the eyes on! It’s like they come alive and look back at me and say “oh thank you for finding me in that log! I was lost and stuck in there!” Sometimes the glue drips from the eye, and it’s like they’re crying cuz they’re so happy in finally see someone….me!

My hope is that you can see and feel the love I put into carving each and every one of these pieces, these friends, and that they make you happy like they make me happy!