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It was my birthday on Thursday.
Rosie made me the best cake I think I've ever seen & I received lots of treats from other friends & family (including this owl mask from Brian).

I also ate lots of Polish food. A favourite.

snow & ice

I do like to be outside in the snow!
Although I slipped on the ice yesterday and landed on my bottom. Bad times.

november

I can't believe it's November already. I'm not at all ready to be walking home from work in what feels like the middle of the night.

Last year I think this month was one of the worst in history so I'm hoping for a big improvement this time. Today started well when I spied a couple of pigeons perched in the sun outside my window.

The weekend was also a winner. We hosted another pumpkin carving evening and spent saturday exploring the events at White Night.

Let's keep this up please!

nearly new

Another pigeon left the coop today.
I've also just carried out a few minor updates to the website.
Not much else to report.

money makes the world go round

Especially if it's stored within a pigeon.

hit & run

Yesterday I saw a pigeon get hit by a car.

Things have reached an all time low.

as good as a rest?

Things need to change, and improvements need to be made.
I've written a list of things I need to sort out, but all attempts to fix things have been thwarted.
Yesterday I posted a letter which may help with one problem (when I say one problem I actually mean MANY problems).
But my hopes are not high!
Today maybe I'll work on something lower down the list...

Or failing that I might just move here:

a tiny bit

Here is a mini sample from my first & second screenprinting class.
I printed a pile of A3 kite/rain/pigeon combinations and then decided to print a few lone pigeons on different types of paper.

I can assure you that not all my work on the course is going to be pigeon related - this week I began printing a chicken, and an egg.

Maybe I'll even move away from birds in the near future...

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Oh, and also, I'm VERY excited about this event coming up as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe 2009.
Hope to see you all there on the 25th May.
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pigeons aren't perfect

I've set up a new blog: protect the pigeons.

For all things pigeon related.

Please pay it a visit!

it snowed last week...

...and i made a snow pigeon!


photo courtesy of sam.
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and we have more!

I've updated my shop with more of these little ones:


h o o r a y !

did i mention that i like pigeons?

hello pigeon

guess who's in my shop now?


yes, that's it! some jolly pigeons.

h o o r a y !

AND it turns out this is my 200th post...can you believe it!
so to celebrate that fact and of course to celebrate the pigeons i'm going to give away one of the brood to the first person to comment saying something along the lines of 'yes, please!'.
jolly good!

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things worth mentioning

I've got a whole variety of things I've been meaning to post about for a few days now so I thought it best to tackle them all in an extra looooong post. So here goes:


I went to the v&a village fete last friday and it was a most enjoyable evening out. The last time I went was a couple of years ago but it seems to have got much more popular since then as the queue for tickets was ever so long, and stretched quite far around the inside of the museum.

The fete itself was in the central courtyard and was fully of lovely stalls from a variety of talented design folk. One of my favourites was the stall by the ever so talented rob ryan which hosted a scratch card treasure hunt where you had to race against the clock to uncover the clues.
I just about managed to do it (with a lot of shouted help & a very small 5p piece) and just look what I got for my troubles:


A beautiful limited edition print! I'm ever so pleased.

Another stall that took my fancy was by the folks at garudio studiage and involved a game of picking 3 hutches with the same animals inside. Unfortunately I didn't match 3 so didn't win one of these amazing cardboard pets but I did get a poster for my troubles:


What a cute bunny!
Garudio Studiage have lots of nice items in their shop and I'm particularly fond of the items from Chris Ratcliffe - lovely!

I just realised I never posted a picture of my finished pigeons so here they are:


I'll try and get around to listing some in my etsy shop soon and if any of you are interested in owning your own little pigeon then please let me know!

What else have I got to report? Oh yes, I've got a nice new dress:


and that is all!
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shopping bag

i've been decorating a canvas bag.
it's promoting my new favourite thing: pigeons of course!


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now i'm getting carried away...

p i g e o n

last night I made a stuffed pigeon.


he just needs some eyes now.
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i love pigeons

and i love this:


A hand sewn pin badge from Rita's Casbah.
Oh, how I want it!
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this is my favourite thrifted item...

...it's my pigeon hat of course!


Here's my entry for this weeks 'This Is...' topic. It's a recent buy (in fact I've only recently posted about it) but I am such a fan of pigeons and have already got a lot of usage out of it (people may start calling me a crazy pigeon lady soon). But it is a great fancy dress item & makes me smile.

I picked it up for £2 at snoopers paradise in Brighton. It's really meant to be used as a hunting decoy I think but the fact that it fits perfectly on my head proves it was meant to be!

Check out more 'This Is...' entries by clicking on this lovely badge:



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