Bird a Day Challenge Auctions
If you been paying attention you'll know that I've had an exciting month here at Felt Towers, at the beginning of
March I set myself a challenge to create a bird a day. The rules were
simple, each bird had to be needle felted on to a 3 cm felt bead and
take no more than 1 hour to make and I had to make one every day for the
whole of March. Having made the birds I then had to make sure to
photograph and blog each one in turn.
As you can see, I made it through all 31 days! It was a challenge but I didn't miss a day and in the end I had 31 beautiful birds and had learned a lot. You can read about my experience in my Final Thoughts post.
To end the challenge I have decided to auction the birds (except for one which I made for my mum for Mother's Day!) with 5% of the proceeds going to the RSPB to help then continue with the great work they do to preserve Britain's countryside to make a better home for nature and protect our birds and wildlife.
The auction goes live at 7pm on Sunday 10th March (UK time) and will run for 7 days (lots of time to pick your favourites and bid!) you can find all the listings here . Each bird shall be accompanied by it's own individual Certificate of Authenticity, signed by the artist (me) and numbered with the day it was made on.
I'll be around to answer any questions you might have (even the silly ones like if you were a cupcake what would you be? The answer's salted caramel and choc chip BTW) and you can email or facebook me if you have any queries.
Thanks for reading, I hope to see you at the auction
xx
mel
Showing posts with label a bird a day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a bird a day. Show all posts
Sunday, 10 April 2016
Saturday, 2 April 2016
Bird a Day Mini Exhibition
I had thought I had collected all the birds together for a group pic but Mr Felt has hidden the vulture and I misplaced the Floofy bird! Oops!
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Bird a Day: Day 31: Last Day Dodo Bird
Bird a Day: Day 31: Last Day Dodo Bird
It's the last day... which has me feeling kinda sad... mostly because now I might have to get back to doing some proper work and I have to do my accounts next week. Mostly I am feeling a little sad because it's been good fun... hard at times but good fun too. There are so many more birds I want to make, I'm really hoping that I can keep my creativity flowing and come up with some new designs to offer in my shop now!
I decided to finish with the Dodo partly because someone requested him and also because he's a warning from history. The Dodo bird was the first species we know to have been made extinct by humans... it's the bird that was too naive to run away and too tasty for sailors.
Poor Dodo!
he Dodo used to walk around,
And take the sun and air.
The sun yet warms his native ground—
The Dodo is not there!
The voice which used to squawk and squeak
Is now forever dumb—
Yet may you see his bones and beak
All in the Mu-se-um.
by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
It's the last day... which has me feeling kinda sad... mostly because now I might have to get back to doing some proper work and I have to do my accounts next week. Mostly I am feeling a little sad because it's been good fun... hard at times but good fun too. There are so many more birds I want to make, I'm really hoping that I can keep my creativity flowing and come up with some new designs to offer in my shop now!
I decided to finish with the Dodo partly because someone requested him and also because he's a warning from history. The Dodo bird was the first species we know to have been made extinct by humans... it's the bird that was too naive to run away and too tasty for sailors.
Poor Dodo!
by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Bird a Day: Day 30 - Pelican
A Wonderful thing is a Pelican... It's beak can hold more than it's belly can!
(This may not be a true fact... my grandad told me it and he's been know to lie to small children)
(This may not be a true fact... my grandad told me it and he's been know to lie to small children)
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