Friday, June 24, 2011

Chinese Checkers

This Chinese Checkerboard is hand-painted on an antique bread board with a Pennsylvania Dutch design of Red Wing Blackbirds.  It is approximately 16 inches wide by 20 inches long.  It comes complete with a muslin drawstring bag of colored glass marbles and can be purchased for $125.00.  It is also available in an 18"X18" square size on solid pine with the bag of marbles for $75.00.

multi-pointed star checkerboard

Multi-pointed Star Checkerboard
This multi-pointed Mariner's Compass checkerboard is hand-painted on old pine.  It is approximately 16 inches wide by 23 inches long.  It comes complete with checkers.  The price is $75.00 or if you want it painted on an antique bread board, the price is $125.00.  Please contact me via e-mail to purchase this board.  My e-mail address is sassafrascreek@aol.com.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Mahontongo Valley Checkerboard

This checkerboard is painted on an antique bread board in the style of the Pennsylvania Germans in the Mahontongo Valley area.  Their style of painting is very distinctive and I used that inspiration to paint a checkerboard.  My checkerboards are available for purchase by directly contacting me.  Sizes of checkerboards may vary as they are painted on different sized antique bread boards.  This board is approximately 18"X18".  This one is for my own private collection but can be purchased on a different bread board for $125.00.  I can also paint gameboards on solid pine and they are very distressed to look as old as the bread board ones.  A solid pine game board of this design would be $85.00.  My work has been chosen for the Early American Life Magazine Directory of Top 200 Traditional American Craftsmen for 2005 and 2007.  My boards have also been featured in House & Garden Magazine, Town & Country Magazine and St. Louis Homes and Lifestyles.