BOOK BOOK BOOK ! ! !

Barby and I are over the moon with joy !

Many of you know Barby Anderson and her adorable critters, I found her through Flickr ( or did she find me?)

It is such a delight to see her new critters and I often browse through her Flickr pages to see them .

She also has quite a few of my creations and from the moment her critters and  my first Barn Owl  met, there was chemistry.

We inspire each other, I see her mice and bunnies with a certain animal and Barby, almost on that moment, writes me about that certain animal .

What follows are the stories only Barby can write in her own nature-loving way !

She told me of her plan to publish a book about her beautiful little babies with my animals months ago and now it's here !

It's a wonderful book, it is a book you pick up over and over again, each photo is beautiful, crisp, clean, full of details.

The little rhymes are sweet, endearing and so perfect with the critters.

 This is a collectors-item, you can see Barby's Art all together ( with my creatures YAY ! ) in one book.

There are 93 colored photos !

You can buy this beautiful book of my friend here:

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/woolie-critters-needle-felted-creations/16226787?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

This morning I received my copy and I'm so proud and honoured, I can't tell, it took my breath away.

Barby, my dear friend, thank you for this overwhelming gift!

P.s. Barby had to make an entirely new book, the template of the publisher Lulu she used seems to have flaws .

I will post new pics of the book, it has 93 photos now in stead of 75 and the colour of the book will be a beautiful blue !

Great spotted woodpecker, barn owl etc.

After I made the Gnome with the woodpecker feathers, I had to make a woodpecker.

In the back of my head there was also a little voice saying I had to make a Barn owl for someone but I couldn't find the "someone".

I checked my emails but no !

I hope if the "someone" sees this post she gives me a message :-(

So, after I finished the two birdies I had to make another bird : An European Blue Jay.

Pheeeew, this also came from a little voice in my head ( what is going on up there !!??! )

I adore the Jay, it's a intelligent, curious, beautiful bird and they can mimic other birds.

When I lived in Utrecht, I had a water fountain in my garden and these shy birds came to play and bath.

One day there were six of them, and one of them started to sing in a most peculiar way, it was beautiful, I'll never forget.

I really fell in love with the Jay and despite of my neighbours complaints about them ( they eat little birds)

there were plenty of little songbirds around.

I've read a research paper that concluded there was actually an increase of songbirds in the area where the Jay lives.

Mmmm I can really get upset if I hear people are hating this bird and crows and magpies.

I used to live in the country side and the local farmers hang a dead crow in their fields to scare away other crows. I think they don't understand that the crows are eating insects like the larva of Maybugs etc. that eat their crops.

Okay, enough with the venting of my frustrations.

Here are the BIRDS

The not yet finished European Blue Jay: