wood, wood and more wood

One of my goals this year is to try and use existing craft materials that I have kept or stockpiled over the years... I seem to hold on to a little bit here and there with each project, and now my craft closet is bursting at the seams. I have a box full of different off-cut sized wood veneer... they are all so pretty... still not sure what to do with them... will have to brainstorm this week!! 

where the wild things are

Every once in a blue moon, I will see a movie trailer that blows me away and gets me suuuuuuper excited. Being a mega-fan of Spike Jonze, I am soooo excited about his upcoming adaptation of my fave children's book Where the Wild Things Are. It doesn't come out until October, which seems so far away... but I'm sure it will be well worth the wait. See the trailer here, and you'll see why I am dancing on the spot like a 5-year old in excitement!

collage: girl and bird

A bird theme collage for the weekend... tweet tweet. Only once in my life has a small wild bird landed on my hand Snow White/Cinderella style (creepy pigeons don't count). I held out a handful of birdseed and with a lot of patience, lo and behold it worked! Maybe the secret is to sing to them like in the movies?.. although I think in my case that would definitely scare them away.

my barbapapa collection: coin bank

In a previous post last month, I had mentioned that one of my fave childhood books is the Barbapapa series. I have been collecting random Barbapapa items over the years both old and new, so I thought I would post up one of them today. This is a wooden coin bank I got from a local store (it's Barbalib - the nerdy book reader... er, for any other fanatics out there!). I was so happy to see that a French wooden toy company called Vilac was rereleasing new Barba-items... not sure how I will resist getting more of these! Will update some more from my collection from time to time, so stay tuned!

three press

A pic of bright yellow flowers today, since I'm in a bright and sunny mood this morning... I am finding, good things do come in threes! This week some more great press from three fellow bloggers... check out these postings and lovely blogs. My bird tote is featured on Etsy Item of the Day (thanks Jackie!), a nice little write up on crea8ive juice (thanks Andrea!) and lastly on Handmade by Angie (thanks Angie!)

blast from the past 3

After some encouraging words from last week, I am slowly starting to scan some more of my retro collages (yes, retro as in from the not-too-distant 90s). I must have been in an angry mood the day I made this back in the day... lots of sharp pointy references in this one. I kind of cringe and laugh at the word "Alternative" I worked into it too... it's so embarrassing. 

collage: girl and bird

One of my fave things about spring is seeing and hearing the birds in the magnolia tree outside our window... well, as long as they are the wee voices of the tiny little birds and not the screams from crows or seagulls. Thank goodness we have been lucky with that so far!

Also thanks to Pandapop blog for including me on one their posts over the weekend! :)