Feathers and wings

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well. We had a dusting of snow

in the night, and it's cold and hazy,

so for the rest of the day I

will

stay home, keep warm, and 

enjoy the aromas of my marinated

 veggies baking in the oven while I am enjoying some 'play time'.

At Simon Monday challenge the theme is

'Spread your wings'

and at

Go tag Thursday it's

feathers, so I hope this giant tag will suffice

for both. I am also linking to Doing life, ATG create with tlc - anything goes, as Desire kindly invited me to join in. I once again used a 12" tag cut from an Amazon

shipping envelope, started with a hand-full of bits and bobs

from my table, which I sewed to the tag. You can see painted and 

heat-blasted tyvek, ancient linen from the erosion bundle, feathers, 

lace, and scraps of ribbons.The collaging and stamping was

the next step, and then back to

the sewing machine to sew it to a distressed background.

The swan quill is one I found by the Rhine, I gather all

of my feathers from my walks:

It started off with the painted tag substrate and a heap of 

disparate items:

It was hard sewing over the quill, and then it didn't

look right:

So I unpicked it and sewed it down the other way round -

much better!

I cut off part of the yellow ribbon after sewing:

On Sunday the sun showed itself again:

But since yesterday we have wrapped in cold and freezing fog:

As I walked past my poinsettia it started whispering to me, and

said it felt very neglected as I had been only showing

photos of the Amaryllis....Anyway, here it is, beautiful as ever:

 

The third bloom has started to open, and the second shoot

has grown like Jack's beanstalk and will soon be

flowering, too.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!