Vivid Side Notes: Liz, Confessions of a Lazy Birder.

Bird-er, noun-informal 1. A bird watcher 2. A person who raises birds.

I have a confession to make.  I think birds are great.  Not just great.  Awesome-great.  But there’s this thing.  I don’t like to go looking for them. (I just got in a fight with a green-cheeked conure as I typed this)  

I’m passionate about them in theory, but birders are supposed to travel around in the cold with notebooks and heavy binoculars and know the sounds and appearance of a red-winged black bird from a ga-gillion miles away and count how many they see and be perfectly happy with this.  I am not one of those people.  (According to the conure, I am not one of those people either.)

I can’t even be bothered to Google pictures of birds for amusement.  But here’s what I do like to do.  I like to make birds artsy.  Sometimes for a challenge.

Sometimes for other people.

And sometimes out of pure passion.  Our bedroom closet is very proud.  This is my reference:

I love birds, think they're awesome, and like making them.

But sometimes when the nest is crowded, it’s time to leave home.  They're clearly plotting something.

So I put together an etsy.com store for any loose creations that occur during the side notes of our Dreamkeepers project with Vivid Publishing ala Vivid Side Notes.
www.etsy.com/shop/VividSideNotes?ref=l2-shopheader-name
We’ll announce new arrivals in our art accounts when they're going to be posted.
You may be surprised what shows up there.