Bird-a-palooza!

After I made my Harry Potter shirt yesterday I immediately started thinking about what shirt I wanted to do next! Yeah, I'm a little addicted.  And I'm obsessed with birds, so birds it was!

I thought about making a "Bird is the Word" shirt (one of my favoirte family guy episodes) but eventually decided I just wanted a cute bird.  Here is the one I found on google.

It was love at first sight.  Simple, adorable.  I wanted it.  Then the more I looked at it, the more I wanted to add a fabric embellishment on my shirt! So I used the same method for this shirt as I did for my Harry Potter shirt to make the stencil.  Rather than print out the bird I just freehanded it onto a piece of paper.

This time I only put on two coats of paint.  I wanted it to be more thin so some of the shirt color would show through and create a pale aqua bird.  Before the paint dried I slapped on the fabric wing.

After the paint was dry I stitched around the pink and yellow fabric with turquoise stitching for contrast! I L-O-V-E it!!

Oh, and excuse the poor photo quality.  I didn't get to take my photos til late and the lighting in my house sucks at night.  I was too excited to wait!

Speaking of birds - I made a special trip out to the Berry Hill goodwill in Nashville today because I heard it was awesome.  Yeah, not so much.  Maybe for clothes, but their furniture was sparse.  I didn't walk away empty handed though! I found this hiding on a lower shelf:

Is that precious or what?! I couldn't wait to get home and paint it.  I was feeling lazy so I just used some spray paint.  Here it is now with its minature friend (which is actually part of a salt and pepper shaker set)!

Excuse my dusty table - gotta clean tomorrow.

So I got to complete some small projects today, but they made me super happy!

Cheers!