For the Birds

Inspiration: Bird

Using a 4 by 6" wooden box from a yard sale, Very Mary painted and sanded the box, added background papers and songbook pages, then polyurethaned the entire thing. After that, she added a jute hanger secured by white furniture tacks.

Moving clockwise from the top left, she used twigs, a mushroom bird, silver glass beads, and reindeer moss:

She also squeezed in some buttons, a wee glass bottle full of silver glass beads, millinery flowers, and stapled on wire:

Adding a tiny nest with another teeny bird, she adorned it with pins, more buttons, more moss, and another twig:

She finished off with a ball of jute, more twigs, and a couple of speckled eggs:

Then, because one bird creation surely wasn't enough, she tried something a bit brighter and more whimsical. Using an oval balsa wood box (5 by 4"), she painted it light lime green, added some K&Company papers, and then sanded and poly-ed the whole thing. But wait! There's a great surprise:

A Bird in a Box! Using the container as a bit of a shadow box, she piled in a bird and a nest and a twig clothesline:

Of course there's an egg, decoupaged with phrases from an old flower book, a few buttons, and sweet little pieces of fabric:

And, to make this a piece more functional, she added a bit of wire through the back so it can be hung...