Green Crystal Bird Earrings

Another birdswap item! I've had some of these teensy golden swallows from a bead store in Washington and have been saving them for at least 5 years for something special. I used green swarovski beads because I've always thought emerald and gold look so classy in combination :) I used my roundnose pliers and some thicker gold wire to create the swirly parts.

Also, thanks again for the kind words! I'm still in bed, but I was able to get up for a little bit to eat breakfast and make a couple of Fathers Day Cards. I'm still totally not ready to get back to normal life, but I'm getting there.

Bird Doodles Pearl Mini Wall Ornament

Thanks to everyone for the kind get-well wishes :) I'm still stuck in bed, but slowly getting better. I'm glad I had all these swap projects made already so I can post SOMETHING! It's making me crazy not being able to be up and crafting, but I think I might do some embroidery. That's one craft I can do while laying down! Anyhoo, this is a little wall hanging/ornament I made for the bird swap.

It looks like inchies, but the squares are actually 1 & 3/8 inch. I put them together by sandwiching string between the square and another thin panel on the back with hot glue. And some faux pearls. The bottom is just twisted wire also with faux pearls!

Here's my favorite square! Bird Party!

And my other favorite. I hope you guys like! It was pretty fun to make, and another good way to display inchies, even though these aren't technically inchies. Meh, 3/8" doesn't make a huge difference.

Birdhouse Mini Art Quilt

Tada! Here is my very first attempt at a mini art quilt! It measures aboooout 9x12'' give or take. The edges aren't perfectly straight, and I had no clue how to finish the back, but I'm still reasonably proud of it.

I made some good use of the decorative stitches on my sewing machine to do the quilting. It took FOR-EV-ER.

I ventured to do a bit of applique and I really liked the way it turned out. I felt like it also took forever to do the satin stitching on the sewing machine, but it would have been MUCH longer if I wanted to do it by hand.

I did do some hand embroidery here on the bird, but not much. Happy Saturday :)