Category: birds

boro owl and birds -wip

update 10/15:

beakI’ve abandoned the plan to put new things in the shop this week, instead it will be the beginning of next week. I was photographing things yesterday and this morning and  saw lots of stuff I felt iffy about or didn’t like.  I was particularly disappointed in the indigo owl,  among other things his beak was completely wrong so I’m re -working it now and already like it much, much better.

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I’ll post a couple more progress photos here later today.

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froth, foam and the daily bird

underskirt

This truly glorious antique underskirt is destroyed in the skirt sense, it’s so fragile I’m surprised I was able to hang it for the photo,  but it  will make a  wonderful  foamy, boiling sea for a paper mache ship.

Bird news: the daily bird is back  for one week.   I’ll post one little bird for sale in the shop Monday through Friday,  the time will vary. I’ll post a link here in the side bar each day when it’s ready and also on twitter.

*little clarification – I’ll post a link here in the sidebar but will not be emailing subscribers for each daily bird *

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This is Monday’s bird matilde in a pine tree in Prospect Park.

couture

I’m working on lots of  things for the shop including  a small collection of sweetheart birds, one of a kind things, detailed and intricate, elaborate and self indulgent – couture girls, la belle epoch. I’ll post progress photos here and if you’d like to be notified when they are ready you can join the shop mailing list.

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dolls

I was working on this girl last night and she reminded me of a story I read as a kid. I must have been about nine when I first read it and I still have the book, a collection of stories, “The Doll That Was Rich” was read so frequently that the book falls open to the exact page I was thinking of: ” On the table in front of them were two dolls, one dressed and one partially dressed. Beside them was an open parcel, full of bits of bright colored silk; and beside that again was a work basket.” I still love the idea of a basket of fancy scraps and somebody to dress up.

More shop news: Just for fun, I’m adding a new section of found things, very small collections of very small things, flea market treasures, stuff I love- like this mini iron and trivet.

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The first collection will be up within the next couple weeks – just six little things .