Sometimes things just don’t come together, which is why “the bones” (below) of this decoration lingered in my unfinished pot for a couple of months.
I started it when I was in the middle of doing all my Christmas and Halloween house tranklements using small, coloured craft sticks (Hobbycraft £1 pack of 50) and was wondering what to do the colours I had left over……. once started I soon realised it didn’t look right, the green shelf served no purpose with the one bird stuck up against the wall, but I couldn’t for the life of me think how to fix it, so I left it, going back to it whenever I saw it alone and forlorn in the drawer.
I know I have a real thing about proportion and nothing sat well with the two birds and house and I never really considered adding another bird as I thought it would look too much, but as I became more and more desperate I tried it and low and behold because they were all on different levels and layers it worked, doh ……..
But then …… what to do with all that “empty space”? It still needed something else, I thought flowers, but resisted paper as I thought it might be too easily torn, sometimes I think I over think things! However in the absence of anything else, I again tried it. I think they work OK with a tiny 4mm button in the middle. A 3mm button might be a little better, so I have a few on order from eBay for the decorations I now plan to make.
The final touch were the four, tiny yellow, nail art roses stuck around the side of the shelf. Finally happy, I now plan to put together another ten or so which, fingers crossed, will be given as fairing gifts to Iris and Bertie’s teaching staff at Easter, if the schools are back by then!
