A wood pattern of your choice - I got mine here
A metallic gradient - I am using the one from PSP 7.
1. Open a new image 250 x 250 and flood fill with a colour of your choice.
Click on your preset shapes tool 
and make sure retain style is unchecked, anti-alias and create as vector checked.
Foreground and background colour #C0C0C0. Draw an ellipse on your canvas as
shown:
2. Grab the bottom node and pull up, as shown:
3. Click on your pen tool 
and
move the cursor over the line until you see "ADD"
Click once to add a node. Add 3 nodes as shown:
4. Pull down and to the right a bit on the bottom node as shown:
5. Pull up and to the left a bit on the top middle side node as shown, then pull to the right on the arrow a bit.
Pull up and to the left a bit on the underside middle node and down slightly on the handle:
You may also need to manipulate the top centre and underside centre node a bit
to even out the top. We are only concerned with the left side, as we will use
a trick in the next step to make them even. Here is how it should look at this
point:
7. Layers--->Convert to Raster Layer. Now, take your selection tool and draw a rectangle around the left side:
Selections--->Invert. Hit your delete key to get rid of the right side.
Deselect. Layers--->Duplicate. On the duplicate layer, Image--->Mirror.
Use your mover tool 
to align the
two sides up together.
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