Welcome to my little workshop on the web. I design and make unique marionettes, woodcarvings and wooden jewelry. Many of the items on this page already found a home, but if you see something you would really like to commission, write me an email to info@craftycarver.com. All items are hand-made originals, so I cannot make you an exact copy, but I’d be happy to make a similar carving with its own unique spirit.
wooden bead bracelet
A simple bracelet from hand-made wooden beads
gnome lady mini marionette
This pendant turns into a miniature marionette at sufficiently magical moments
Our garden gnome in his working attire
Brother Grimm’s Cudgel in the Sack
Fergus the Good and Maxen the Beloved, rat gentlemen.
Venus and Luna pendant
Santa’s unruly beard
Santa’s beard is especially curly today
Ceci n’est pas un autoportrait
wooden ring
the gnome lady
The Jester King
My little homage to late gothic woodcarvings
Professor
Saint Nicholas, Angel and Krampus
Saint Nicholas and his suite, as portrayed in the Habsburg tradition
Sinterklaas
Krampus in Austria
wand of birds
The Wandering Fiddlers
The Wandering Fiddlers is inspired by a folk ballad about a girl turned into a tree by mother’s curse
The Wandering Fiddlers custom guitar
The Wandering Fiddlers custom guitar
The Wandering Fiddlers is inspired by a folk ballad about a girl turned into a tree by mother’s curse
Grunt towers
Grunt queens
Grunt queens are preparing for the fight
Grunt platoon at ease
Grunt platoon
Grunt chess
Grunt chess
Grunt chess
Grunt chess
If you found yourself with a Grunt colony in your basement, you gotta keep those little rascals occupied. Otherwise they start fighting each other and perform rogue mining in your floor.
Here’s a tip – make them costumes for Grunt chess, they’ll love it
a hair stick with floral motif
Cú Chulainn and the women of Ulster
A historically inaccurate misinterpretation of the dramatic situation in which Cú Chulainn, the great hero of Irish legends, has one of his spectacular warp spasms (ríastrad). Here’s how the legends describe it: One eye bulging out of his head, the other sucked in deep that a wild crane couldn’t probe it out of the depths of his skull. If a royal apple tree were shaken above him, each apple would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage.
In this scene Cú Chulainn is returning to the village of Emain Macha in the state of uncontrollable rage. The women of Emain, fearing the destruction of the village and slaughter of its inhabitants, drop everything they’re doing and run to meet him ahead, baring their breasts to him. The sight startles Cú Chulainn greatly; he averts his eyes, and is wrestled into a barrel of cold water, and another one, until he eventually calms down. The danger once again averted, women are returning to their work.
Cú Chulainn and the women of Ulster
A historically inaccurate misinterpretation of the dramatic situation in which Cú Chulainn, the great hero of Irish legends, has one of his spectacular warp spasms (ríastrad). Here’s how the legends describe it: One eye bulging out of his head, the other sucked in deep that a wild crane couldn’t probe it out of the depths of his skull. If a royal apple tree were shaken above him, each apple would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage.
In this scene Cú Chulainn is returning to the village of Emain Macha in the state of uncontrollable rage. The women of Emain, fearing the destruction of the village and slaughter of its inhabitants, drop everything they’re doing and run to meet him ahead, baring their breasts to him. The sight startles Cú Chulainn greatly; he averts his eyes, and is wrestled into a barrel of cold water, and another one, until he eventually calms down. The danger once again averted, women are returning to their work.
Cú Chulainn and the women of Ulster
A historically inaccurate misinterpretation of the dramatic situation in which Cú Chulainn, the great hero of Irish legends, has one of his spectacular warp spasms (ríastrad). Here’s how the legends describe it: One eye bulging out of his head, the other sucked in deep that a wild crane couldn’t probe it out of the depths of his skull. If a royal apple tree were shaken above him, each apple would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage.
In this scene Cú Chulainn is returning to the village of Emain Macha in the state of uncontrollable rage. The women of Emain, fearing the destruction of the village and slaughter of its inhabitants, drop everything they’re doing and run to meet him ahead, baring their breasts to him. The sight startles Cú Chulainn greatly; he averts his eyes, and is wrestled into a barrel of cold water, and another one, until he eventually calms down. The danger once again averted, women are returning to their work.
Odin undressed
Odin
Odin with Huginn and Muninn
Wasserman in his natural habitat
Helga the Shieldmaid and Einar the Fierce posing together
Clog Spirit
The late afternoon of Faun
Bombur almost finished
sadkošulka-šulkasadko
The cast of the play “Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue” by Marquis de Sade.
Gwendolyn
Ad Astra Per Alas Porci
Queen of the night
Rings for Her and Him
Jack of the Green
Floki the shipbuilder
bodhran tipper
The Chess Club
Cloudberry, the bog troll
Grandpa and grandma dwarf enjoying their sunny evening
The Chess Club
The Chess Club on a meadow
At your service!
Fer Diad and Caesar, the rat gentlemen
hastrman in his natural habitat
necklace
Jeans dwarf
Floral motif necklace
birth of the jeans dwarf
Jack in the green
King of the forest
the biker dwarf
Draco
Draco
Bifur and Balin, at your service
Vierka
King Ubu and his lovely wife
House elf
Three is a company
Three is a company
Puppet makers tools
Vierka
Vierka
Controller
Ean de Beltaine
House elf
House elf
House elf
Ean de Beltaine
The Cook
