12 bottles of beer on the wall

A while back I posted on how I was in a sewing binge and was making these little owls. Then I took a break from the owls to finish the baby blanket. A couple weeks ago I finished up my owl binge. I completed 12 little owls in different colors and with different faces. Each no bigger than 3inches tall. These little guys were used to decorate some tall flowers at my baby shower. The shower itself wasn’t an owl theme but they brought some of the baby room to Chicago to celebrate with us.

I wasn’t real sure what I was going to do w/ all these owls. For a while I toyed around with the idea of turning them into a mobile for the baby room. I wasn’t sure it would get done before baby and figured it definitely wouldn’t after he comes. Until last weekend when I wandered by the guest room, randomly turned in and pulled out my wire. I started freeform bending some steel and copper wire just to see what I came up with. Then I dug out some fun beads that would match and some fishing line. The next thing I knew it was over 2 hours later and I had a little owl mobile completed. It uses 8 of the 12 owls, an African wedding bead, some fancy charolette Czech beads, and other miscellaneous beads from my stash. It’s definitely not a toy. But we hung it in the babe’s room out of reach from little hands.
It was a fun project to make, and I’m thrilled that its completed. I’m actually a bit shocked at how it just flowed out of me w/out me having to think too much about it. I do miss wirework and hammering as well as beads, but they just aren’t on my radar right now. I’m not putting the fabric away quite yet. I have some fun ideas for some bigger projects, not owls, but maybe fish, bugs, or even a rocket ship. We’ll see how things go once the little guy decides to join us.

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