Birds of a feather

When I read the latest challenge on lessology.blogspot.com - Birds of a feather - I just knew what I wanted to create - actually some ideas that had been jumbling around in my head......

Perhaps you have figured out from my blog that I love to draw and paint!  I have been trying to draw or paint something every day so I purchased a wonderful sketchbook of handmade paper last year and have been filling it with sketches and paintings BUT I wanted to do something for the cover. AND I have been playing with pen and ink - in the course of which, I carved points onto a couple of feathers that I found a while ago (one of the feathers fell off of someone's Carnival costume in Trinidad, I picked it up, and have saved it all these years).
 I decided to decorate a small pottery vessel (purchased at a thrift store) with ribbons, laces, a selvage scrap that reads "free spirit", a journaling card reading "Discovery", and a small metal bird cage purchased a long time ago at Michael's. Inside the birdcage is a tiny bird on a little swing that actually swings! I then decided to alter the sketchbook to match - with journaling cards and ephemera (some Making Memories and some Gecko Galz) along with real feathers. I have now placed the feather pens right by my laptop - what a fun look on my desk!
What are you creating today?
Chris