For work in progress :
I’ve got some other creatures in progress and I’ll post them later this week.
miss havisham
This poor wretched ANCIENT wedding dress is destined to become birds and ship sails and cake toppers and maybe a white owl. The morning it arrived I took it out of the box and put it on immediately. This also happened to be the morning I finished the swiss dot fabric wedding cake and cake topper (below) and that was sitting on my big work table. If I had any balls at all I would have used the timer and taken a picture of that little miss havisham tableaux for you but you’ll just have to use your imagination.
I think the satin is mostly too damaged to use but there’s tons and tons of good lace.
happy valentine’s day!
These are a few Valentine birds in progress last week doing a little Ester Williams synchronized swimming number for you. When they were finished they went off to Artfool to be part of a special Valentine arrangement.
wedding cake topper
Yesterday’s glittery little photo was a little tiny top hat for a groom bird. Below are some of the other bits and pieces that became a cake topper I’ve been thinking about forever.
I love this antique lace so much I almost couldn’t use it. Luckily I’ve got a pretty deluxe stash of old lace for dolling up future bird brides. I’ll show you some time.
I had a ball making it. Here they are coming
and going
and on a swiss dot and seam binding cake.
The cake is sitting on a paper mache cake stand. I love a cake stand. The whole thing is in the window at Kim Johnson’s Shop on Orchard St. She has some new valentiney birds for sale as well. More on the bird madness at my shop this morning and other places you can buy a bird later. The cake toppers will be available soon in my shop and a couple other places, feel free to email if you have an immediate need.
something little
The shop update is on for noon tomorrow.
and I’ll tell you about this photo tomorrow too.
regina
This is regina. She certainly is pink.
You can see more of my birds over at kstyle today.
Karen made a neat kaleidoscopey bird slide show. Thanks Karen!
fancy progress
For WIP : birds on the way to fancy.
emaline
A box of vintage fabric scraps arrived yesterday and it’s fabulous stuff, much better than I expected. I immediately made a bird, emaline, out of my favorite piece- large roses on white satin. There was only a little bit but I hope I can squeeze one more bird out of it.
*shop update* It’s happening but not this week as planned. Sorry. I took on a last minute project so it got bumped yet again. I am giving a firm date and time though, the shop will update at noon on Tuesday the 6th. For sure.
evidence of bird making
And a flea market report: we had a warmer day on Sunday in Brooklyn so there was a little flea market action. I got this little sewing apron, cutest apron ever maybe.
There’s been lots of bird making going on. Here’s a little box-o-birds in progress.
They’re headed for various destinations, several are headed for my shop. The update will happen on Friday or Saturday and I’ll put a notice on the blog when it’s up. I’m still in the weeds, bird wise, but in the future I’m going to try to do at least little updates regularly.
tinsel trading
I stopped at Tinsel Trading yesterday for some cake topper things. I got so overwhelmed by the magnificence of the place and the extraordinary selection of extraordinary things they have I ended up leaving with a fraction of what I needed. I did get some little vintage millinery flowers and peachy glass glitter and inspiration for new things to make.
isabelle
Isabelle is made from orange silk velvet so old it was almost impossible to sew. I’m not sure where she’s headed yet; I’m working on cake toppers and she might end up a bride. I’m making one for the Valentine’s window at Johnson along with some other Valentiney birds. We’re going to put it up the end of this week. Christmas got so busy I never really properly photographed the Christmas window. I took a few pictures but wasn’t crazy about any of them. There was lots and lots of paper mache including this cruet:
When I bring it all back here I’m going to photograph and post some of the other things.
every day this week
I’ve been a big blog slacker; gotten completely out of the routine of posting. To whip myself back into shape I’m promising a post every day this week. The long overdue shop update will happen this week as well.
