39/52 Bird a week - Life is good in the dog house!

This week's bird is not the focus of the piece, but just a little part of it. He is actually the bird of a weather vane on a dog's house. He enjoys sitting up there and spinning around in the wind!

It seems an appropriate piece this week as we have both a bird and a dog with us at home. And the dog has definitely been in the dog house this week!!!   Most of the time the dog, ( we are pet sitters for her) and our parrot Harold, ignore each other, but when the dog barks, Harold loves to shout louder!!  It's pretty scary here if the door bell rings!!!

The piece was made at last weekend's "Art is you" class.  I took this class as, you may recall, at the beginning of the year, I decided to try new things this year and be more experimental.  Compared to silver jewelry, I guess this is definitely something different!

The dog house and wheels are wooden; the window is mica; the roof is pewter; the window and door frames, dog, and bird weather vane, are all made from paperclay and painted with acrylics; and the flowers are felt.

 

If you are banished to the dog house this week, don't worry.  Life is good out there with all those pretty flowers!

To see the other birds that have been made this week as part of the challenge, click on the links below:

23/52 Bird a week - Dorothy

This week, I'd like you to meet Dorothy.  To her friends, she is known as Dotty.  I'm sure you'll be her friend soon, so feel free to call her Dotty.

Dotty working on her tan

She is a lovely bright bird, but finds that she just needs to keep having a rest today and take the weight off her feet.  She's exhausted with all the feather sorting, food shopping, and taking care of the nest. Phew! 

To be honest, she is a little fed up of the feather sorting right now.  This spring has been so wet and windy here in California that she is forever getting caught in a shower and her feathers blown out of place. While a shower is nice, it does take quite a bit of maintenance afterwards to get all those feathers back in place - especially the teal dot ones!  Normally at this time of year, she needs to find a shady spot to keep cool - but not this spring!

A shady spot to take a nap

But she's found lots of sunny spots in which to dry off - when the rain eventually stops!

And hopefully spring will finally arrive here and she can relax a little and not have too many bad feather days!

Dotty's favorite seat is in the red roses.

Please click on the links below to see what other new birds have appeared this week from others joining in the bird a week challenge.