Williams restarted Muscogen Woods 18 months ago having put it in recess about 16 years earlier and she takes her wares around shows and festivals.
“We saw it overseas and thought we could make them ourselves.
“We started using recycled power poles,” she said.
But the artist from Fairlie in South Canterbury who had a stand at the Southern Field Days in Southland earlier this month said she liked the grain offered by beech and Douglas fir so opted for those species. Pine was too soft to work with.
A toadstool takes her about two to three hours to shape using a chainsaw. It is then sanded and protected using linseed oil and beeswax.
