Anyway, I'm working on a take along bird house toy. It will be sort of like a fabric dollhouse that you can take with you (roughly a 6 inch cube), but instead of dolls there are little birds and instead of furniture there will be a nest. I'm thinking about making worms for the birds to eat. I finally have enough done that I can show it to you. This picture is the front panel, or the outside of the house (minus the peeked roof, which I haven't done yet) and two of the little birds).
When it's done you'll be able to open this panel like out (like y
ou open your oven) and see the nest inside and also have the birds play on their tree. I love the tree. I had a hard time figuring out how it should look, so I actually went into our yard and cut several small branches off different trees to get the right shape and to figure out how to do the leaves. I'm also really happy with how the bird family turned out. I need to name them--let me know if anyone has any ideas.The birds do not have feet. My friend M and I went back and forth about feet this afternoon. I didn't think that I could get the scale/proportions right and M thought that feet would look creepy. (She did say creepy in a loving way, though.) I'm thinking about putting a tiny bit of Velcro** on the bottom of the birds so that they'll be able to stand up on their tree and in their nest--the bark is fuzzy.
I'm hoping to get the whole house done this weekend and then I'll show it to you.***
*Since I can't draw, I looked at about a million simple pictures of birds in order to make my bird pattern. The Twitter bird was one of my favorites, so maybe these look familiar.
**I always forget that Velcro has to be capitalized. I need to learn the non brand name for Velcro.
***I love footnotes. In my papers in school I was always so happy to get to note things. Some of my favorite papers footnotes that took up over half a page.
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