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A little about Off The Beam
I love woodworking and am also a big fan of non profit organizations that rescue and rehabilitate wildlife, educate people about marine environments, the threats to them, and contribute valuable research to preserve and protect habitats and species.
I have been carving for several years now, and initially started as a way to decompress from a stressful career in ER and trauma nursing. Lately I have been allowing myself to explore other areas of woodworking so that I don't get burned out from carving. Its an interresting concept, and a delicate balance.
If you run a non profit and are looking for items for your online auction or event, please email me. I am always happy to send items to recognized non profits.
Thanks for stopping by!
Sheri
I have been carving for several years now, and initially started as a way to decompress from a stressful career in ER and trauma nursing. Lately I have been allowing myself to explore other areas of woodworking so that I don't get burned out from carving. Its an interresting concept, and a delicate balance.
If you run a non profit and are looking for items for your online auction or event, please email me. I am always happy to send items to recognized non profits.
Thanks for stopping by!
Sheri
newest additions and news
News:
Some of you may have noticed I've basically disappeared. Life gets interresting, challenging and weird. I have moved around a lot in the past few years, and have landed again in Western MA after a short trial of life away from the valley. This is home. So I renovated a tiny garage and moved the shop in, and have been working on renovating the house that came with the tiny garage. Those renovations eat up the lions share of my time off, so carving has taken a back seat. The tiny house that came with the tiny garage suffered a misfortune in the past. It was originally a sweet little Craftsman style bungalow, but along the way someone asked it to be something it is not, and stripped all of the wonderful Craftsman charm from it, replacing everything with cheap builder grade crap. And so I have been removing all of that, fixing careless house flipper shortcuts and reinstating the character and charm the little house deserves. I still carve and will still make items for non profits, but was feeling a little burned out. I'm also not on social media as much because I grew weary of constantly having to censor spammers, hackers and people who want to start fights with each other in the comment section. Social media is not what it was, and so I'll find a way to do what I do and connect with people who love and support wildlife and wild spaces in other ways. Anything is possible if you make it possible.
Keep wild everyone,
Sheri
OTB
Some of you may have noticed I've basically disappeared. Life gets interresting, challenging and weird. I have moved around a lot in the past few years, and have landed again in Western MA after a short trial of life away from the valley. This is home. So I renovated a tiny garage and moved the shop in, and have been working on renovating the house that came with the tiny garage. Those renovations eat up the lions share of my time off, so carving has taken a back seat. The tiny house that came with the tiny garage suffered a misfortune in the past. It was originally a sweet little Craftsman style bungalow, but along the way someone asked it to be something it is not, and stripped all of the wonderful Craftsman charm from it, replacing everything with cheap builder grade crap. And so I have been removing all of that, fixing careless house flipper shortcuts and reinstating the character and charm the little house deserves. I still carve and will still make items for non profits, but was feeling a little burned out. I'm also not on social media as much because I grew weary of constantly having to censor spammers, hackers and people who want to start fights with each other in the comment section. Social media is not what it was, and so I'll find a way to do what I do and connect with people who love and support wildlife and wild spaces in other ways. Anything is possible if you make it possible.
Keep wild everyone,
Sheri
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