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Funky bird wall hanging

We're taking the Christmas decs down tomorrow or the next day and I was thinking I'd like something bright and cheerful to hang up in place of the sparkly things on the wall :) So, I rummaged in my scrap fabric bag and made this:

I thought it looked quite cute! The bird was from a template from Wee Folk Art and the fabric for the birds and the checked background came from 4 of April's outgrown dresses - I especially love the big flowery bird at the bottom! To give it a slightly rustic look, I finished off with a small branch I found in the garden and all I need to do now is add some string so that it can be hung on the wall - very cheerful! :)

All that's left for me to say now is happy new year - we are (as usual on new years eve) having a quiet evening in with nibbly food, bubbly and Jools Holland on the telly. I'm refusing to jump on the stupid "make resolutions" bandwagon - it is the most pointless exercise ever. I know what sort of things I'd like to do in the coming year but I don't need to write them down and it's not the end of the world if I don't do them. I think people get too hung up on resolution setting and then end up beating themselves up if they don't stick to them - waste of time. I think it's partly my age that's making me take this attitude - I turn 40 next July and that's pretty big :) The thing about turning that age is (and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in feeling this), that you suddenly think "what the hell" about just about everything. Suddenly, the silly, stupid stuff doesn't matter any more because you're not a little kid anymore, you're actually grown up and you realise that you CAN be yourself. Take something as basic as clothes - for YEARS I've fussed over my clothes and fretted over what to wear. I've always loved girly skirts and dresses but nearly always ended up in jeans because - I don't know - people think you're "too dressed up" or "too girly" if you wear dresses/skirts all the time. A fair while back though I thought "I'm done with this" - I'm sick of cramming my curvy, hourglass body into jeans and feeling like a sack of spuds. I LOOK better in more feminine stuff and I FEEL better. I struggled all through my teens and for most of my twenties and thirties fretting over fashion - well, no more. I genuinelly couldn't care less what people think and that applies to other things as well - I feel like one hell of a more relaxed, laid back person :)

Well, phew *laughs*.

That all said, happy new year anyway - hope everyone gets off to a healthy, cheerful and worry-free start .......... and stays that way! :)

Catch you in the new decade.