It starts as 48x4x8 block of wood, but when Norman Altman sits behind his work bench in Syracuse, he sees Santa Claus in the raw material. Each year, Norman Altman hand-carves and paints wooden ...

Leiser, who sports a Santa-like beard himself, said It takes about 10 hours of carving and painting to produce a single finished Santa Claus. He does his own painting and sells the St. Nick images ...

SHEBOYGAN – A display of more than 100 wooden hand-carved Santa Claus figures can be viewed until early next week at Uptown Social, 1817 N. Eighth St. The James V. Siegl and Helene Y. Siegl ...

Georgia Boyse has three distinct wood Santa Claus carvings, each representing a different time period in her 36 years as a wood carver. One is a small ornament, while the other is more sleek and co… ...

Crafted over the past 22 years, Earl Warner's little band of hand-carved Santa Clauses is not exactly a jolly looking crew. Naming his business Olde World St. Nicks, Earl's carvings do not fit the ...

Goody’s Decoys, the name on a shop on Elkridge’s Main Street, disguises what really goes on inside.Seated at a workbench is a jolly man with a silvery white beard and a round belly. Late into ...

While some River Valley Carvers create relief carvings of landscape scenes, others practice chipping away at a block of wood until it turns into a miniature bird or small animal. There are members ...

If there's even the teensiest bah humbug buzzing your holiday, get thee to Kirkland where the world of Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas reign. Reasons to Believe, a small shop at 92 ...