A Partridge... Not in a pear tree.

This one's for the birds.

Inspired by all of those lovely spray painted ceramic birds out there floating around in Blog land, I have been collecting a few birds here and there. It seems that there is no shortage of partridges... particularly this variety.

I paid .75 for both of these guys at a garage sale, brought them home, and with a little bit of spray paint, transformed them into this:

Then this partridge here,

Was transformed as well, into this bird here.

And as a brief side note, I thought I would talk about my tchotchkes in this corner.  The plate stand was $2.99 and came from the GoodWill a few years ago. The plates are from St. Vinny's and were only .49 each. The silver candlestick was $1.00 at a garage sale. The lead crystal candy dish was a wedding gift, from 16 years ago. That thing ALWAYS stays out, and typically is filled with candy or gum. Just ask any friend or family member that knows me. LOL. The Gorham Lead Crystal salt and pepper shakers were also a wedding gift. They are pretty, but I have never put salt and pepper in them. They came from a dear friend. The  floral "thing" came from Big Lots last year and was $5.00.  The candles I had on hand and the other candle holder came from Goodwill and was .50! The table my dad made for me several years ago. It was a honey oak color, and I painted it white a few months ago. 

O.K.... back to the birds.

I have no before pictures of this next guy, but he was also spray painted.

And this rather innocent looking owl was .75 at a thrift store and way too cute to paint. He didn't get painted. My youngest daughter, aged 9, is a crack up. We were at a local hardware store the other day and I was in the garden area. I saw a couple of very large plastic birds, one was a hawk and the other was an owl. They were ugly, tacky and meant to serve as a decoy to keep rodents and other pests away from your garden. Nonetheless, I was a bit intrigued by them, thought they were tacky as well and just picked the owl up to look at it.

My 9 year old piped right up. "No MORE birds Mom! We have all these birds in our house and they are just sitting there. Just sitting there staring at our guests. It's creepy."

I stifled a giggle and explained to her that I was NOT going to buy this bird.

She's not a fan of the birds I guess.

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