Birds Of A Feather

Art Clay Silver

Birdhouses

My flight to create birdhouses started a couple of years ago when I took an introductory class into Art Clay Silver.  I played around with it for a few months, then I lost interest.  Over Christmas break 2009, while making gingerbread houses with my children, I wondered if I could take this technique and create a birdhouse out of ACS.  Winter turned into spring, and I ended up wandering through a bead shop in Palm Springs, California.  As fate would have it, gleaming in the case was a tiny ACS birdhouse.  "Who made this fabulous creation?" I had asked the clerk.  She told me that the owner had bought the piece at a bead show back East, but she didn't know the artist's name.  After examining the piece, I knew I had to try out my "gingerbread theory."  Here is my salute to that unknown artist living somewhere on the East Coast.  She/he inspired me to create my own line of ACS bird houses.  Thank you whoever you are.  You're proof that birds of a feather really do flock together.  

 

The birdhouse can be found in the Winter Issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry Magazine.

 

My first set of stepped out photos.

I am thinking of selling one or two of the birdhouses in my Etsy shop.  I cannot part with all three!  Which one do you think I should keep?