45/52 Bird a week challenge - Quality time with friends

This week, I've gone back to aluminum for my bird a week and created a color anodized aluminum bangle.  In fact, there are 133 birds in my challenge this week.  They all decided to gather and just spend some time together. They are not really doing anything particular.... just hanging out together, chatting and laughing...... 

Sweet little birdies perched on the wires. Everyone has their little space, no one crowds the other and they chat to their neighbors or sometimes just sit in silence.

It seems a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon...don't you think?  Quality time with friends.

I hope you've had some quality time with friends this week.

If you want to see what other birds have been created this week as part of our challenge, click on the links below:

24/52 Bird a week challenge - Come fly with me.....

This week's bird(s) is printed on one of my aluminum bangles and is entitled "Come fly with me".  It shows a rather lonesome bird sat on a branch and a group of other birds flying past him.

I hope he takes off and goes flying with them.  It seems sad that he is there alone...unless he is about to break forth into song?

Talking of breaking forth into song, that's what I am doing this afternoon. I'm singing in a 5 day workshop with Chanticleer and this afternoon is our first get together.  It's always a wonderful workshop - so I have high expectations for the next few days! They are full days - starting at 9am and finishing around 9pm (...or when the wine runs out!!!).

In the meantime, I hope you'll take a look at what other birds have been created this week by other members of our bird a week challenge:

Sad Parrot

Yes, we have a sad Harold today as Angie and Marly have left us!  They are heading back to Waterloo.  John and I are sad too :-(

They've been staying here at Birdland for the last three weeks, both while we were here and also taking care of Harold while we were away in England.

We've all enjoyed their company and tonight's cocktail hour seems empty and quiet without their chat, smiles, laughter, and singing to Harold.

It seems that Harold really won them over and likewise, he has become quite taken with them both.  Whenever they came in the room, he got so excited!  He squalked for quite a while when they left....but we have told him that they'll come back again another day - so hopefully that will help him calm down a little.

It's been fun to have friends to share my studio with.  They've made some aluminum bangles, and today tried tap and die work.  I look forward to seeing how they use the techniques in their work in the future.

Thanks for your friendship sweeties. It's been wonderful having you here. xxxxx