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Happy Father's Day!On Mother's Day Tricia picked some of her favorite pieces.  Mom's can do that! But - being a Dad with limited time (and even shorter attention span) I just picked one favorite of mine:This guy just gets me....Tricia and I designed this piece right around the time our oldest was born.  He's graduating High School this weekend, and heading off to college soon.  So as relevant as this piece was in my life 18 years ago, it's even more so now!Anyway - since I di … read more

Memorial Day 2024If you look out the second floor of our studio, across the street you can see one of the oldest continually attended churches in Virginia – Oak Grove Baptist Church, founded in 1762.And if you look closely, behind the Church you can see the cemetery. And believe it or not, here in coastal Virginia there are British graves from WW II.In Row 5, and five places in from the right aisle, you’ll find the markers where four British crewmen of HMT Bedfordshire and two of her sister … read more

It's finally May! Out of the 12 months, May is our favorite.Why you might ask?  Well it's easy...May 1st is our Anniversary!  Tricia and I have been married and working together as a team for 27 years now.  And while the marriage part is just as easy as the day we said 'I do', the working together part can have it's ups and downs.  We definitely have our own 'lanes' we work in: I get the 'dirty' work - heavy lifting, sharp blades and sawdust.  And she get the more refine … read more

If it's been awhile since you visited us, here's a few things you might have missed!We have more work listed:  More that 120 new carvings since this time last year.We've got some themed pages setup now: Our Florida customers have their favorites, our Western Customers have theirs, and we've started build out on some other specifics, like Mermaids, Whales and other Nautical creations.We've started listing more of our hand-carved Decoys.  We started our professional lives as Back Bay Dec … read more

We've had a lot of requests for 'action' videos of what we do, so we're starting off with a simple 'Welcome' video.  Hope you enjoy it!