May 21, 2013

Put a Bird on It!


About 5 years ago I started to notice the "bird on it" trend at the Brooklyn Flea. I seem to have some kind of psychic connection with the series Portlandia because whenever I find some hipstery thing funny it ends up on the show. Then I walk around saying "Put a bird on it" and "I can pickle that" more often than I'd like to admit. 

This bird craze has some serious staying power! Its kind of too bad because there are times I would like to put a bird on something, but now I feel guilty & ashamed. Can you find the bird in this collage? I found him in a vintage magazine and and mixed him up with some vintage fabric, paint & drawing. 

This weekend I went to some yard sales and got this pretty handkerchief.  I could cut it apart and use all the little birds in mixed media -- but I'd feel way too guilty!  Then bird salt & pepper shakers & ceramic figures started showing up at another sale for $1 so I had to buy them. Put a bird on it! 



12 comments:

  1. Love your collage and the secretive little bird! And what wonderful finds - how fun.

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  2. Love the little bird among the ovals.

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  3. Really cool collage! Tweet, tweet . .

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  4. having the contrast of geometric figures and real life images always make collage so much fun. Your birds are great to include! {:-Deb

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  5. I love the teal colors in your collage and the movement that seems to surround the little bird.
    ~Dawn

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  6. I am from Holland and you have me puzzling with the 'put a bird on it' phrase... I clicked all the links to try and find out and I think I 'got it.' Maybe. Anyway. Love your collage. I really do!

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  7. Sweet little birdies! Love your collage!

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  8. Marit, I'm so thrilled that you are looking at this blog in Holland!

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  9. Love the salt and peper birds, glad you bought them and yes, let's just indulge in birds. Put a bird on everything, if that is what you want to!

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  10. Just signed up for your postcard swap for my second year and I'm so looking forward to it! Last year the challenge brought out a creative side of me that I'd never explored by having the limitation of a series, the size and the fact that I wanted to made something good relatively fast.

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