Bobbie Jo Morrell is a mountain woman, poet, writer, leather crafter, rustic furniture builder, cat owner, technical writer, website designer. She says, “Colorado’s Front Range, with the smell of pine trees in the cool air of morning, is my home.” Her blog address: http://soulscompass.blogspot.com/.
___________________________________________________________________________________________Back in the late 1940’s my mom learned leathercrafting–because she decided to take shop instead of home economics in high school. In the 1970’s I found her box of tools, and began to learn the craft from her. My dad, resourceful man, made me many tools out of nails, and I bought books about figure carving on leather from that reliable font of leather, Tandy.
When I left for college I left the leather behind. But about 10 years ago my mom discovered the box of leather crafting tools again in her closet and brought them to me. Since then my love of leather carving has been renewed and I have very much enjoyed experimenting with designs, techniques, and low-tech leather cases for high-tech gadgets. I still have some items that my mom made when she was in high school. Leather is tough and durable, and a perfect medium for long lasting and practical art.
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