The Christmas crafting has been, well, a little slow, to say the least, around these parts. There's been plenty of planning, a lot of looking at the beautiful making going on all over blogland and even a few supply trips. Then this morning we discovered a house sparrow had made it's way into the art room. One puzzled Mama, an excited little and one very curious dog looking on certainly did nothing to calm this little bird. After discovering the screens were bolted into the window frames, closing off doors and trying to gently usher our sparrow out through the front doors with no success we left it to rest and maybe find it's own way out.
Meanwhile we finally found our Christmas crafty groove ....and it felt good, just pottering and making. I'd be painting too pretty a picture if I didn't tell you that it's taken a while, well most of December really, to find our seasonal crafting groove. I was beginning to wonder that it hadn't disappeared all together this year. But then the sparrow came. What does a sparrow have to do with creating and making I hear you say! Through a friends suggestion that a bird in the house was something special, a message of sorts, I decided to do some digging. Turns out that a bird indoors, or more specifically a bird that circles your living area three times, is a symbol of ill fortune or death. Hmmn. This wasn't rocking my boat, and besides it was in the art room not the lounge, so I dug further and found out that a sparrow indoors heralds simplicity, creativity and productivity. Of course, I should have known a sparrow indoors was all that was needed to help us find our rhythm!
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Cxo
Oh... and a quick manoeuvre with a tea towel was just the ticket to setting our sparrow friend free.
