Bird 6 peering at the camera
and posing with a beautiful canvas by Brigid McCabe. I’ve decided to do three sets of four toys for MassHort. Each set will include a lizard, a turtle, a bird and a snail. The first set is all in greens. Next up, browns. The snails will come at the end because I need to shop around for some weights to slip inside (if you have good sources/ideas for weights, please let me know).
This weekend we celebrated Charlie’s birthday. I made the lemon layer cake from this months’ Cook’s Illustrated. Superb – it looked great and it tasted great.
Things are super busy here getting ready for the show, so back to work it is.
Greenberg and Hammer, Inc.
http://www.greenberg-hammer.com/
They sell all kinds of weights. Plus, more good stuff. Lots of good stuff.
What about some heavy disk magnets? Then the snail could ‘crawl’ up the fridge, etc?
These birds just keep getting cuter!
How about washers from the hardware store?
oh wow, that’s the best looking icing i’ve ever seen!
Wow I was just poking around and saw your bird, it is so cute and so well made.
Thanks for the Brigid McCabe link – beautiful pieces there. And your cake looks gorgeous. What a perfect layer of icing that is!
fishing weights? and also scuba diving shops sell bags of tiny weights that you can push into thin bits..hope that makes sense? I love these birds, each one is more beautiful than the next.
love the bird!
I’m delurking a bit to say I think your birds are amazing!
another wonderful bird!!
Is that royal icing? It looks amazingly delish! Happy Birthday, Charlie!
the wings on your bird are lovely. the entire bird is divine, really, but i’m taken with its wings!
This is my favorite bird so far. Gorgeous!