My friend, and until very recently neighbor, Craig up and moved to Egypt (for the next 9 months anyways) last week. I’m pleased to see that he took his little plaid friend ian with him. His priorities are obviously in order. This is ian on Zamalek Island on the Nile looking across to Cairo.
There will be a new ship tomorow, there should have been one today but I was a little bit of a slacker for no good reason. Here’s a little sail preview.
This is vida
and this is the tattered edwardian? I think? bodice she was made from.
This is nell, made from a vintage apron I loved but it couldn’t be salvaged in it’s entirety. She’s off to The Johnson Shop.
This is Margarita.
I’ve posted Margarita and a few other birds for sale (hopefully it all works properly) here:
I’ve got a little batch of new birds, a few pictured below. I am once again horribly behind on correspondence and I apologize to anyone I owe a response to – I probably won’t get caught up till next week. There have been a lot of questions about things being for sale and I’ll address that now. Birds and ships will be for sale shortly, I’m in the process of building a site for that very purpose and if you happen to be in NY I may be having a trunk show later in the summer, I’ll keep you posted. Since building the shop site is taking me forever I’m going to put something temporary together by the middle of next week the latest. There, I’ve said it , now it will happen. Email or leave a comment if you would like to be on the mailing list. There will also be a temporary wholesale catalog up later this week, just email for the link.
This stout little bird has kind of a bad attitude
The mail man brought me this box of fabric scraps this morning ( ebay). It’s all spectacular stuff, lot’s of stripes and little ginghams, perfect for birds and sails, every bit of it. This is just some –
I made a bird immediately.
I know this is way too many pictures of one little ship, The Meriwether, but I can’t help it. I get ridiculously excited about things the day they get finished, so in a day or two I’m gonna finish another ship and I’ll probably post too many pictures of that one too. I managed to restrain myself from posting a ton of pictures of that little bird in just about every setting you could imagine a little fabric bird in.
And a little bird. This is my whiplash intro post so I had to include a bird.
These are a couple of fancy, tattered and tragic Miss Havisham sorts of birds. They are made out of the incredibly fragile scraps of an amazing victorian dress. The bird in profile was one of my very first birds and her sister was made last night. I’ve been picking up scraps and lace and too far gone victorian and edwardian clothes on ebay lately and plan on making more fancy birds. I’m trying to decide between these three photos for a little postcard. I used OvernightPrints for the first time last Christmas and was very happy with what they did, happier than with things from more expensive printers. If anybody has another great postcard/ printing source I’d love to know about it.
Sorry to everybody who has been getting the WordPress error message. It’s a Yahoo problem and I don’t think it’s 100% fixed yet. I spent an hour + on the phone early this morning (again) trying to get it permanently fixed with no success so I’m going to make birds for an hour to restart my day on a happier note.
This little bird looks like she’s saying ” What the fudge Yahoo? Get it together!!
