I create wooden cutting boards bread boards and other serving pieces. I use more than 25 varieties of wood from all over the world, from red alder harvested in the Pacific Northwest, to padauk from Africa, to Vermont sugar maple to South American purple heart. When I set out to make a board I have no design or size in mind. I simply do what the wood tells me. The wood dictates everything. If I try and force a design or a size then what I come away with is something completely unnatural. One of my boards might be as simple as red maple with a couple of American walnut accents. Or it might be as involved as Brazilian cherry curves with African mahogany and Peruvian walnut inlays. But each board ends up as is it was meant to be. My business, Lula Woodworks, is named for my wife of more than 20 years, Lula.