Birds of a Feather

Hello again, everybody! I know I did a little drop-off-the-face-of-the-earth maneuver there, didn't I? We went out of town for 11 days to visit family, spend the holiday and attend a funeral. I fully intended to keep up my blogging while I was gone, even going so far as to take along a CD full of pictures so I'd have photos to accompany my entries, but somehow I just never got around to it. I'm glad to be back!

I came home on Sunday night to find a surprise in the mail from the lovely Shara! It was a wonderful "just because" package of goodies with a birdie theme. I wish I had taken a picture of the way it was wrapped with blue feathers and all, but I was so curious to see what was inside that I forgot the camera.

The first things I pulled out of the box were a vintage 1950s bird identification book that has awesome illustrations, a piece of old bird wrapping paper, and a darling vintage birdie greeting card. Under that was this very cool box that is shaped like a book that Shara embellished with vintage Scrabble tiles. Nestled inside was a set of four darling vintage glass tea bag holders painted with little birdcages and the most beautiful Leo Ward "Bluebird of Happiness". Shara has a whole collection of the glass birds, which are made at studios near her home in Arkansas. I mentioned once to her that I had looked for one of these birds but haven't found any yet, so the little note she included said that NOW I have one! I absolutely adore him and I'm going to put him in my kitchen windowsill so the sunlight will shine through him in the mornings. Shara sent me one other thing that I forgot to photograph: a piece of vintage sheet music of a song from "Yankee Doodle Dandy". Shara thought it might go along with my patriotic decorations and she is right! It looks just perfect. Thanks, Shara! I love it all. :)

I'm thinking that it's about time for another giveaway--more info to come soon!