Amy's wands are made by hand. She does not use a lathe.

Amy made this wand in response to a request for one "with lots of Celtic knots all over it, and one of those pointy round things on the end." She designed the knots herself through a lengthy process of tracing, scanning and redrawing. Once she had finally settled on the knot design, she transfered the design to the wand with a method like a rubbing. She draws over the lines on one side of the paper, tapes the paper around the wand, then draws on the opposite side so that the graphite is transferred to the wand. To keep the colors distinct while staining, first she painted the knots with clear nail polish, then stained the entire wand, and then carefully cut the thin layer of nail polish off.

This wand was a Christmas gift for Amy's sister's wife, Sheryl. It was carved to fit comfortably in the hand (which it does rather well). Design distinctions include a "natural" rather than symmetrical style, ebony stain, a handle end that curls into itself, and two distinctive marks to represent Sheryl: a feather, to represent a phoenix, and the olgham (druid) text for the word "rowan." Both of these are carved with thin lines, which are beautiful yet subtle under the dark wood stain.

This is the second wand Amy carved. She loves Celtic knots and really wanted to integrate them into a wand design. The wand shape was loosely based upon McGonnagall's wand in the Harry Potter films.

This wand Amy made for her SMWC "little sis," who asked whether she could get a wand with Mozart's "Requiem" on it. She wanted something to represent her love for music, and requested a dark handle and light tip, as is typical of a conductor's baton.

When someone requested a wand design that was "something with a spider or spiders," Amy ended up with a real challenge. The problem was that she had no corners to draw the web in. She had to create a continuos web design around the wand. She pulled it off beautifully and added an adorable little spider.

This is the third wand Amy carved. She carved it for her girlfriend who said she wanted something with a moon and stars. Amy drew up the shape design. As always it changed a little bit during the carving process, something she anticipates while designing. The moon and stars were painted in with ivory nail polish to ensure that they would be lighter than the "sedona red" stain.

This wand, the only "male" wand Amy has made, had several sources of inspiration. For one, Amy had noticed that Lupin, in "Prizoner of Azkaban," uses a wand with a similar large end, and he had an entirely different way of holding and using the wand than the other characters. She wanted to make the wand a bit "rustic" for her male friend, too. Lastly, the person for whom the wand was being made had adopted the Green Lantern comic book hero as a sort of unofficial mascot. The Green Lantern's symbol is a circle with a line on top and on the bottom, hence the pattern that appears on the wand.

Another new challenge about this wand was that on this wand's design, where the handle meets the shaft, the hole in the center of the circle was hand drilled all the way through, forming an "x" through the wood. The end result was a very comfortable and handsome wand that was fun to make.

This is the first wand Amy ever carved, inspired by the one Hermione had in The Prisoner of Azkaban. With this movie came a big change in the style of the wands used by the main characters. When she saw that Harry Potter style wands could be more natural and creative, Amy decided it might be worth trying to carve one. It was.

Amy made this natural looking wand for one of her friends who liked the vine from Amy's first one. Although the effect is subtle to the eye, Amy made this wand to fit naturally into its owner's hand.