Over Yonder Woodcrafts has been my small business since 2023, which is also when I first started vending at Saturday Market. After so many years of finding solace in our beautiful Oregon forests, I first began to work with the found wood from those forests in 2019. It quickly became a real passion, a calling. Early on in my wood carving journey, I began making sensory wood fidgets and soon received feedback that those little thumb nuggets were having a therapeutic effect on the people who bought them from me, which is why I now call it “thumb-wood therapy”. It’s been a lot of fun selling them at Saturday Market and seeing the joy that such little wood objects can bring to people.
Driftwood vases have also become something that I really enjoy making. My tables at the market are filled with dried-flower vases made from unique, one-of-a-kind chunks of old-growth driftwood that I have collected on the beaches and in the forests of Oregon. I fill each character-rich piece of driftwood with colorful dried flowers that come with the vase with purchase.
All of the wood that I use is ethically sourced, gathered by me.
I’ll be vending for the entire Holiday Market season in space #55 of the Evergreen Hall. I hope to see you there.
Thanks for your support of Over Yonder Woodcrafts!
— Chris