Birds

I've been thinking about SPRING and staring out of my kitchen window - watching dozens of birds come to my husbands feeders. Even though the grass and trees are still brown the birds are turning color and beginning to don their summer feathers. So in the spirit of new colors I thought to create a bird from fabric - muslin actually - and then I thought let's color the little bird with my colored pencils - then I thought the wings looked flat, so I slightly stuffed them, stitched, then colored - OK! Then I thought, a little distress ink. 0K! ?? Well, once the ink pads were out on my work table, I thought about the great new glitter embossing I just bought and how would my little bird like some BLING?? Then with my micron #.05 a little shading and cross hatching. I pulled strings of the muslin all along the edge for a "feathered" look and I got the idea to make more of the little birds for an entire hanging mobile - maybe from the bottom of a birdhouse I just painted (but don't want to hang outside) and maybe with an old windchime I've saved and need to re-string. My little bird has taken most of my day. But so worth it AND of course it proves the enormous value of staring out the window. lol Melody