tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11414813837153639752024-03-05T01:20:43.763-08:00Shirley's StudioShirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-91678269014295233432015-04-26T02:57:00.002-07:002015-04-26T03:00:09.229-07:00Rainy Sundays at the Studio<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it has been a while since I updated this blog (shame on me!) and since Facebook is trying to show as few people as possible my updates, I wanted to do a little picture/story dump here again :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've recently updated my website <a href="http://www.shirleys-studio.com/">www.Shirleys-Studio.com</a>, which has been collecting dust for a few months due to some errors which are fixed now ^_^ <br />We've changed a few pages so it's easier for me to post new pictures and stories. Wheee!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little Titus and his noble steed made a trip to the pond today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Angus got a little color in his face and a new kilt with darker colors. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The previous one was nice but a bit too bright for my liking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His pipe came in with the mail yesterday and I am so happy with it! I'm thinking about altering or painting it a little more, since it's from a party store and very plastic looking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now he needs his staff and some more details and he will be ready to run around outside :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I posted a picture of this mask in the making aaaages ago, which made a few of you think I had been in a terrible accident (Woops!! Sorry bout that!). It might have been the linnen, tape and bandages I used to create the base *big grin*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mask is now covered in paper maché and painted, but still not really at my liking. I'm going to create a new mask and alter some things I ran into with this little fella.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onto another paper maché project I've been working on for months and finally got myself to order grass and moss and such to work on it some more. This tree is about 40 cm high and the trunk is about 5 to 7 cm wide.<br /><br />It's still going to be a very time consuming project but I can already see how the final form it will be, even though at times I really wanted to throw it in the garbage. Glad I didn't! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The glue I used to add the moss is drying as we speak and next I'm going to add high grass, little stones, mushrooms etc. Then the leaves of the tree will be added.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As I'm laying the hand on the last few commission pieces, the annual <a href="http://castlefest.nl/en/" target="_blank">Castlefest</a> event (Fantasy event in the Netherlands) is just around the corner and there is still a lot I need to create before I can attend with a peaceful heart and a big smile (days before the event I'm a grumpy Troll, beware! )</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope to keep up with the blog again during a busy scedule and I also hope to create some trolls for adoption in the meantime ;)<br /><br />Thank you for reading!<br />Shirley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-88562016132311737162014-10-31T05:41:00.001-07:002014-10-31T05:41:31.000-07:00Grover's place!<span style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fffffa; line-height: 19.5px;">Remember this little guy? :D</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">In august, this little fella (scarlet -chested parrot) fell out of the nest. We (my partner and I) actually thought he passed away but when we came closer, his little tail moved. We took him home, kept him warm and fed him with a syringe. </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">This is right after we found him;</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><img class="writer-deviation-image writer-embed" data-embed-author="ShirleysStudio" data-embed-height="" data-embed-id="2805100696072448" data-embed-naturalheight="682" data-embed-naturalwidth="1024" data-embed-provider="sta.sh" data-embed-thumb200height="200" data-embed-thumb200width="300" data-embed-title="1" data-embed-type="deviation" data-embed-url="http://sta.sh/0rmbpgwvym8" data-embed-width="299" src="http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/304/f/9/1_by_shirleysstudio-d84rcv6.png" style="background-color: #fffffa; border-style: none; color: #2c3635; height: auto; line-height: 19.5px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 299px;" /><img class="writer-deviation-image writer-embed" data-embed-author="ShirleysStudio" data-embed-height="" data-embed-id="2084714118318166" data-embed-naturalheight="682" data-embed-naturalwidth="1024" data-embed-provider="sta.sh" data-embed-thumb200height="200" data-embed-thumb200width="300" data-embed-title="2" data-embed-type="deviation" data-embed-url="http://sta.sh/0kiywg0bmty" data-embed-width="298" src="http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/304/e/b/2_by_shirleysstudio-d84rcv3.png" style="background-color: #fffffa; border-style: none; color: #2c3635; height: auto; line-height: 19.5px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 298px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">The weeks of very intensive care that followed (including veeery early feedings @.@ ), we saw him visibly gaining strength, grow a beautiful feathery coat, eating food on his own, trying to fly (lots of stuff broke because he bumped into it.. he's a little clumsy :D ) and become a very happy, healthy and curious bird. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">We call him <b>Grover</b>. Yep! The blue muppet from Sesame Street! </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><img class="writer-deviation-image writer-embed" data-embed-author="ShirleysStudio" data-embed-height="" data-embed-id="6959926955626347" data-embed-naturalheight="1032" data-embed-naturalwidth="774" data-embed-provider="sta.sh" data-embed-thumb200height="200" data-embed-thumb200width="150" data-embed-title="Untitled" data-embed-type="deviation" data-embed-url="http://sta.sh/01wj36axe2y3" data-embed-width="243" height="400" src="http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2014/304/c/5/untitled_by_shirleysstudio-d84rekk.jpg" style="background-color: #fffffa; border-style: none; color: #2c3635; height: auto; line-height: 19.5px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 243px;" width="300" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">We decided to keep him at our own home and build him his very own aviary, </span><b style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">Grover's place</b><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">. That's why there was so much work around the house.</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">And since we fed him, he's very tame and thinks we're his mom&dad. He sits on our head/shoulder or near us when he's out of the aviary. We brought home a very pretty albino ladyfriend to keep him company. He loves to fly around with her and he actually started feeding her. That's a good sign, that means he likes her! :D</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">She's not as tame as he is, so he tries to "learn" her to come near to us. He will sit on our head, fly to her and then fly back onto our head, like he's showing her it's safe to sit there. So cute. </span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><img class="writer-deviation-image writer-embed" data-embed-author="ShirleysStudio" data-embed-height="" data-embed-id="5065634878075217" data-embed-naturalheight="682" data-embed-naturalwidth="1024" data-embed-provider="sta.sh" data-embed-thumb200height="200" data-embed-thumb200width="300" data-embed-title="3" data-embed-type="deviation" data-embed-url="http://sta.sh/01dvm8jbl7pt" data-embed-width="391" height="265" src="http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2014/304/6/8/3_by_shirleysstudio-d84rcv0.png" style="background-color: #fffffa; border-style: none; color: #2c3635; height: auto; line-height: 19.5px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 391px;" width="400" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">Just look at that little face. He's completely soaked from taking a bath, looking like a mushroom and he doesn't understand why I'm laughing :D</span><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: #fffffa; color: #2c3635; line-height: 19.5px;">Right now he's growing his new feather coat (young scarlet's do not grow their original color yet while growing up) and will get a very pretty cobalt blue head, white chest and black beak. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2c3635; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fffffa; line-height: 19.5px;">Hope to show you some new pictures soon!<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday I set up the booth, after testing out a few times before in the living room, it turned out differently, but it worked out well enough :)<br /><br />The first hour of Castlefest was full of nervous giggles and shaking but after an hour I could let that go and accept what was happening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The responses where overwhelmingly positive, it was like stepping into a completely different world. The people where so friendly and open minded. The evenings we drove back home, I really needed that calm and quiet hour to deal with what happened during the day. I normally receive much love and positivism online, which was already very special to me. Receiving it face to face was intense!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've met amazing people, I also met people who have been following me for a while, some even brought the sweetest gifts, thank you so, so much! It's already special for me but you guys really gave me wings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would like to thank Natasja and Mark, for giving me the opportunity to experience this amazing world. The team that made Castlefest happen, the volunteers who worked so hard to give everyone a amazing experience. The sweet exhibitors who had booths next to us. The visitors who brought so much positive spirit to the event. People that adopted, commented or took pictures of my Trolls. And of course, last but not least, the people online who gave me strength and energy boosts to be able to create Trolls and therefore experience Castlefest. Thank you guys with all my heart <3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the meantime we're on holiday and today we drove home to feed and take care of our animals (it's about a one hour drive from our caravan)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We noticed one of the young birds left the nest too soon, the parents didn't look after him so he was weakened. We now feed him ourselves until he's strong enough to go back, he went with us to our caravan and look at this little warrior now! <3 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He keeps us busy while we're taking babysteps back to the "normal world" :D</span><br />
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Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-39127375061817743352014-07-31T04:59:00.003-07:002014-07-31T04:59:44.597-07:00Tick tock!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last day before the Castlefest event, we went to Lisse yesterday evening to build up part of the booth. Friday morning all the Trolls and decoration will travel with us to fill up the booth with magic :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The past week was a crazy rollercoaster, the final trolls are sculpted and the last decoration pieces are collected. The house is a horrible mess right now and is crying desperately to be cleaned, woops! :D I've done the last bit of grocery shopping today and am working on some pre-sculpted things to show tomorrow as a demo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those visiting my booth this weekend, here's (red circle) where I will be standing :D </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On sunday the lovely lady of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TwinklingForrestMiniatures" target="_blank">Twinkeling Forest Miniatures</a>, Joyce, will be showing her amazing dollhouse miniature work. She has a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TwinklingForrestMiniatures" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> with her lovely work, it's certainly worth it to have a look!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For now, I'm about to jump into this new big adventure which will be awesome and I hope to share lots of pictures with you guys as soon as possible!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The colors are a lot more vibrant than the color I used before, so that's a plus! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The past week was a very productive week which flow I hope to continue all the way to Castlefest :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week I finished the Grotto's I was working on, I took them with me to our garden, they seemed to like it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are actually my favorite flowers, I have no idea how they are called in English! I can't seem to find the right name after a google search. They are called "IJsbloemen" in Dutch :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm currently waiting for fresh blocks of clay to arrive in the mail, in the meantime I'm working on a small batch of Grotto's, keychains and Trottles from my remaining resin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost everything is about to go empty! (Except my ideas and inspiration, whehw!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Grotto is about to get sewed together and his hair glued on. Because my glue was empty (REALLY?????!!!) I bought a different type of glue of which I thought it was better, but meh, it doesn't stick anything together, not even my fingers! o_O </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I need to get a new container tomorrow :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are sealed and almost ready for a body! I need to use gloss on the eyes and teeth :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week almost all of my ordered things are in, except for some decoration on the table, which I expect to arrive around friday :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at this! Whaaaa!!! I never thought it would come this far to actually have my own banner in my hands. It's so crazy and still unbelievable, but it's so awesome!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My partner also ordered a T-shirt to wear at Castlefest, turned out pretty cute! It's a drawing of Rupert, made by <a href="http://creepynurse.deviantart.com/" target="_blank">Creepynurse</a> on Deviantart!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sooo that's all the news I have for you this week. The last weeks are so stressfull but I'll make sure it will be a very magical booth in August! I've spend the past days dressing Trolls, but I'll show that to you guys next time ;) </span><br />
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First, I want to show you how the big doll (Called Nevan now!) turned out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally ordered everything I need to decorate the booth so it will be delivered in time, I'm so excited to see how it'll look all together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last weekend we bought new lights for our tent, it looks so magical! I'll take a better picture soon, here we were still in the process of attaching them to out tent ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also went to a amazing garden called <a href="http://www.ampiesberg.nl/" target="_blank">"Ampies Berg"</a> in the Netherlands. This is a private garden, started by two brothers, inspired by Austria's nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They worked for over 50 years on this and it was so awesome to see! The highest point is about 15 meters ( 49 feet) tall! Everything you see is build by hand, every rock and every flower. Wicked!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now onto a new week full of sculpting and finishing the last dolls, wish me luck, this is how my desk looks now! @.@</span><br />
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Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-82127491699651255882014-06-30T12:21:00.002-07:002014-06-30T12:21:31.055-07:00Bottle business!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time for a new blog, I can't believe Castlefest is in a month, so much to do! :)</span><br />
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Last week I showed a picture of two huge troll feet, guess who they belong to now!</span><br />
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This fella! Remember when he was just a head?</span><br />
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After a couple of days I managed to finish part of his shirt and hat, it needs to be adjusted but I thought this picture was hilarious! Poor thing can't see anything! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "Where's the camera?!! Mom? MOOOM?!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've tried to make some sort of terrarium in a bottle, these are just tryouts. It's pretty hard to take a good picture of it, the colors are turning out pretty weird, LOL!<br /> I'm not sure I'll take them with me to Castlefest. What do you guys think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-35185771822501656942014-06-24T08:50:00.003-07:002014-06-24T08:50:46.681-07:00Quick picture dump!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi guys!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A quick picture dump today, not much time for a blog, I'm sorry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a picture of the big Troll's head next to my regular size dolls! (18-21 cm) Huuuge!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the lantern by day, I've added more lights to it (shown on the picture below)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are 3 Trolls having fun in this lamp, Birch (in the hammock), Puck (on the swing) and Aslan right above them, you can see his nose if you look closely ;) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather was lovely and our garden was so colorful that I had to take some pictures of the Trolls outside!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are also very excited about the young birds in the aviary, they are growing so well!!<br /><br />These little cuties are Splendid Parakeets with their mother, only a few days old! This was May 22th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />And here we are, June 12, look at how big they are already! Can you believe how fast they've grown? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, the smallest size is meant to be Trottle 2.0! The first Trottle was created back in July 2013 and I wanted to challenge myself to create a newer, smoother and smaller version. They might be part of a collaboration soon, but I can't tell much about that yet ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of the first Trottles, July 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a smaller, new version of a Trottle. He's 1 by 1 cm tall. I'm currently working on casting them, the first bubble-less cast finally worked! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They will be coming along with me to Castlefest as well, I'm going to put them in a small bottle :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And after a whole day of working this small, my hands where itching to create something way bigger!</span><br />
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<br />Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-50827784206241198302014-06-02T10:16:00.000-07:002014-06-02T10:16:03.666-07:00Burnt ears and a Giveaway!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time flies, only 8 weeks until Castlefest! Eeeek!</span><br />
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Thinking about all the Trolls that still need to be created make me so nervous! But I'm really having fun so far creating all these little fella's.</span><br />
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I hope I'm still able to put them up for adoption and not be tempted to keep them all, LOL! ;-)</span><br />
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As far as my planning goes, it's going pretty well actually! </span><br />
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Last week I created two Troll friends, still thinking about a name for these guys :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aaaand because I've reached 750 Followers on Facebook (crazy!!) I decided to throw in another give-away :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please go to my Facebook page at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShirleysStudio">https://www.facebook.com/ShirleysStudio</a> to enter the giveaway!</span><br />
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<br />Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-66412001580771920262014-05-26T10:42:00.001-07:002014-05-26T10:42:12.173-07:00I have a serious Pixie plague in my living room!<div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So first I want to let you know, cockatiel Gwyneth has returned to the aviary in good health!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was very, VERY happy to see her husband. While she was still inside of the house (the aviary is outside) she could hear her husband yell, and when she yelled back they where so eager to see each other!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was released and it was so amazing to see them reunited. They are a happy couple again and it's like they've never parted. Here's a picture of their favorite thing to do together, search the ground for food :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've created more little pixies and planning to make a small batch for a in-between sale on Etsy this week or the next :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm trying to make them small enough for the mailbox so the shipping won't be terribly high ^_^</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went to a event this weekend called "Volkel in de Wolken", which is a event </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where they have airshows, it's</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> near a militairy airport. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a very special stand with .. owls! The owners have a shelter for sick or neglected owls and where there to collect money to keep helping owls, which is awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had the opportunity to hold one of the owls and it was a dream coming true of me. Owls have a very special place in my heart and it was so special to hold one of them. It was scary and amazing at the same time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week started out good, the teacup project is finished! After the baking and painting process, the troll received his hair and a few pieces of clothing. The resin-test worked out great so the troll is now sitting in a cup of tea! Success!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I'm writing this she's in the cage next to my desk, enjoying the sunny and lovely weather in the Netherlands and she is doing so, SO well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With this adventure I'm afraid I didn't have any time to work on any of my projects for the past week, or even respond to messages at all, I'm so sorry about that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that our little feathery friend Gwyneth is healing very well, I hope to show you guys more new dolls or progress next week. That is, if I can concentrate on sculpting, cockatiels turn out to be pretty loud!! ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, as promised, a weekly update of the progress I've made this week :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was one cup that was a little broader than the others and I think it makes a perfect bathtub for a troll!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm testing out size and composition here, after this I start shaping it to look more like a troll. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ha! I can recognize a troll now! :D<br />At this stage he is baked and almost fully painted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've painted the spoon a dark brown so it looks like a wooden spoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm still working on his hair to make it look wet, but at the moment I'm not sure if he will keep his hair or if I'll just leave him bold with a few bubbles on his head.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll see! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This <i><b>resin </b></i>is colored with food coloring and curing as we speak. I don't have any experience whatsoever with resin so I'm testing it out first. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't want to think about messing up the troll <i>and</i> the teacup!</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that's one teacup troll so far! I have 5 more to test out :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mother in law also had a <i><b>old glass pumpkin</b></i> that she was not using anymore, so yay! More fun stuff to work with!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />At the start of this week I tried out a new medium, called <i><b>Gesso</b></i>. It's actually a primer for paintings but it also works pretty good to color glass :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried it out on two old glass bottles. I've made one white and one purple, added rope, beads and feathers of our aviary birds. I think they turned out pretty good for a first try!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for the pumpkin, I've colored the glass orange and green.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'm not telling what I have in mind for it, yet, you'll see! ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm <b>so</b> in love with dreads and wanted them for god knows how long, but too much of a chicken to take the step and put them in my hair <b>._.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After some searching on the interwebs I found a material called <i>Kanekalon Jumbo Braid</i>, loose hair you can braid, or twist into dreadlocks! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So these are all the updates I have for you, I hope you have a wonderful week! </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">;D</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of work needs to be done, I'll try to share a weekly progress with you guys, working towards this event :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've decided I want a group of small and colorful dolls for my booth. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've created pixies before which where a tad bigger but colorful and cute enough to create more of! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went for a smaller size this time to see how that works out. I've had some old jars laying around which I now used for them to sit on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with the glass jars. It has been pretty difficult so far to get similar ones with a black cap, so I've made a few small round displays from scrap clay to test out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm planning to visit a few stores this weekend to see if I can get a hold of similar jars. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If not, I'll stick with the small displays.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><i><b>For now, here is the progress of a pixie on a jar cap! ;)</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This is the sculpted pixie doll, unbaked. I'm posing it to see how it's working out on the cap :) </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I've used Marabou feathers for the hair and for the tail. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The pixie is glued to lid and I'll be adding moss and beads around him/her once the glue is cured.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This would be the almost-final result of the doll, I still need to add iridescent beads and figure out what to put in the jar :)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here are some freshly sculpted pixies. Ready for the last phase</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of smoothing and cleaning before they're going into the oven to cure ^_^ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope to do another update next week, now I'm off cleaning, there are Marabou feathers everywhere!! ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-54952101979892404722013-09-09T10:44:00.000-07:002013-09-09T10:44:13.845-07:00Mod pick and Trottles!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't even know if anyone is interested in reading these, but for those who like to read it, I'll do my best to keep you up-to-date with the latest news around my studio :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>*The Hot Air Balloon Travelers<br />*Currently available for adoption<br />*Feature on Elfwood</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The small balloon was finally finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a blast creating the balloon and it's travelers :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to try Ebay again after a while and it took a while, but I managed to get the balloons listing up and running and it was very exciting and heartwarming to see people bidding on it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Etsy I put up the aviator <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/161672535/angus-posable-ooak-art-dolls?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">Angus</a>;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De kleine ballon was eindelijk klaar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ik heb erg veel plezier gehad met het maken van deze ballon en zijn reizigers
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ik besloot om na lange tijd Ebay te gebruiken en het duurde even, maar ik kreeg
het uiteindelijk voor elkaar om de Ballon online te zetten. Het was erg
spannend en ook vooral hartverwarmend om te zien dat mensen er op boden!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ze gaan nu hun avonturen voortzetten in Belgie bij een hele lieve dame!</span></div>
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Op Etsy staat momenteel piloot <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/161672535/angus-posable-ooak-art-dolls?ref=listing-shop-header-1" target="_blank">Angus</a>;</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The past week there was a huge wave of new likes and watchers on both Facebook and deviantArt!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new website is up and running, but still needs a few adjustments :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ik wil graag iedereen bedanken die mijn werk heeft gedeeld, geliked of een
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dus namens mij en alle trolletjes,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ik kwam er achter dat er belangrijke info mist over het adopteren en de beschikbaarheid
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Een paar weken geleden heb ik laten weten mijn opdrachten even op stop te
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besloten nog een aantal opdrachten aan te nemen. Maar! Er is wel een
wachtlijst. Het zal ongeveer twee maanden duren voordat ik aan je opdracht kan
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De kleine luchtballon is klaar en zodra ik foto’s heb genomen gaat de ballon
met trollen po Ebay. Ik gebruik Ebay niet vaak maar ik heb besloten het toch
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A wonderful Art Doll created by <a href="http://jerseydays.deviantart.com/">Jelka</a> from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioSterna?ref=search_shop_redirect">Studio Sterna</a>!</div>
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I love this incredibly detailed owl and the trolls have a lot of fun with their new friend!</div>
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Thank you Jelka for adorable Owlie! :D</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I uploaded a picture of a very tiny troll in a bottle and having no clue how to name them, I got so much lovely name ideas that it was hard to pick one!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started a poll on I should name these little creatures. The poll just closed and with 47% the name <b>TROTTLES</b> won!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided I should look at Gizmo's design again and I was not satisfied with his armature yet. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm currently taking him apart very carefully and am completely redoing his armature, now hoping he will be a bit stronger than before. It's so difficult to create a strong armature for such a large doll! I need to test some armatures before I put him together again, but he will definitely be with me at the festival! </span><img alt=":)" data-embed-id="391" data-embed-type="emoticon" height="15" src="http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/smile.gif" style="border-style: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title=":) (Smile)" width="15" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's about it, have a very nice day/evening/night, depending on where you are<b> <img alt=";)" data-embed-id="387" data-embed-type="emoticon" height="15" src="http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/w/wink.gif" style="border-style: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" title=";) (Wink)" width="15" /></b></span></div>
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Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-62933020722810252452013-07-18T12:29:00.000-07:002013-07-18T12:29:47.293-07:00Olly's great treasure!<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While me and Olly searched the woods for fairy friends, Olly suddenly squeaked in excitement and ran off into a bush. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I quickly followed him and found him holding some red object.<br />He was so excited! He told me he found something very rare and interesting, it was a dragon egg! </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />He carefully put it back and covered it with some leaves and twigs. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I don't know.. I'm pretty sure it was a wild strawberry..</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Shirley's Studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150079056083786485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141481383715363975.post-60428699013261785532013-07-18T11:59:00.004-07:002013-07-18T11:59:58.629-07:00Belian's day out<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Walked through our garden today when I suddenly heard a strange noise. I thought it was bumblebee, but it sounded more like someone was humming a song. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">The humming stopped and someone very close by said 'Good morning to you!'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Hanging upside down on a branch, Belian waved at me. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'What are you doing down there, be careful! You could fall down!' I yelled at him.<br /><br />He giggled and tried to pull himself up to sit on the branch. After a few clumsy minutes he managed to sit down on the branch and smile at me.</span></span><br />
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