Tag: bird

Bird on Branch Tee Shirt

  I got this idea also from Pinterest. On the pinterest site, someone used a stencil of an owl, cut out of contact paper. Hey, I thought. I have some contact paper. so  I cut the branches and bird and laid them on the shirt. Then I sprayed it with bleach. Nothing happened. I smelled …

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Book Review: Bird Sense

Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead Someone had recommended this book to me years ago, but it wasn’t widely available. Now it’s even on audible. The title is pretty accurate. This book talks about the senses of birds: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and magnetic navigation. Good parts about …

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Bird Book Cover

This book started out being my favorite one, and ended up being my least favorite. I had a scrap of simply printed white and  taupe on blue calico. Perfect for this modern-retro simple-chic aesthetic which I know well but haven’t got the right name for. I have some splendid butterfly and moth stamps, and it’s …

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Postcard: Two Calendar Birds

I love the images of the birds from the top photo. It’s from a calendar that my sister-in-law had for 2010. Each month had one of those collage images on this nice heavy cream colored weave paper. They threw it out when they moved, but I fished it out of the trash and have used …

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Postcard: Bird and Map

This one was a postcard that I did a lot more to, but it didnt’ turn out as well. I took the time to cut this bird image off of a piece of art paper I have, and I pasted it down on the blue background, and then I embossed the image of the map …

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