The Little Nuthatch

I have new colors of my 1" bird pin sets in the shop. I now have purple, and two nice victorian inspired colors in antique/cream/brown and wine/mauve. I hate trying to think of the names of these color sets!

I LOVE Ann Wood Handmade, and she recently came out with a tutorial for making paper mache boats. I finally got to making one today, and I love it! Thank you for this wonderful craft, Ann Wood! Here is my boat: I hung it in my window this morning after finishing it, and in the afternoon the light was shining through the mast. It was so pretty.

My weekend off started with the best thing ever- a walk through the woods at my parents house.

I made some thank you cards, to send out some thanks for Christmas gifts. (shhh, it's never too late for that!) I had been toying with the idea of trying flocking or embossing on cards, so I ended up with flocking because all I needed to buy for that was a jar of flocking (3.99 and 50% off with a coupon). I went with pale pink ("peony") thinking it would be good for some Valentine's Day cards as well. I picked out a bird I had drawn, put a little heart on it's chest and decided to flock that. I...

It's been so very cold for the last two weeks that I've been really badly unproductive. No blogging, for sure- that only results in icicle fingers. Basically this is all we've been doing: Saturday night we went to see The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. This is movie is AWESOME. There is so much about this movie that is perfection. The set, the costumes, and the casting! You know it's a good movie when you keep thinking back to it for days. I'm so inspired!!