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For work in progress :

I’ve got some other creatures in progress and I’ll post them later this week.

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 Haversham 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.

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.

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.

The shop update is on for noon tomorrow.

and I’ll tell you about this photo tomorrow too.

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!

For WIP : birds on the way to fancy.

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.