The Nesting Bug

yes ma'am I have it bad. I am officially just over four and a half months pregnant and I seem to have developed a new addiction to adorable crafty little things. Suddenly the idea of womanly arts like knitting and crocheting makes me weepy and sentimental, picturing myself listening to Enya and making whimsical yarn creatures. This is especially interesting to me because I have never had interest in either one of these activities, and there was a time when I think you could have chased me with knitting needles. Ah how hormones change anything. Anyway. These are some little felt animals I made our of some felt I bought at Micheal's. Interestingly, this felt, which I bought solely because it was dirt cheap and this was my first try, said that it was made out of 100% recycled disposable drinking water bottles. (So THAT's where they are go!) At any rate it empowered me to just dive on in, and so without a pattern I eyeballed the original that I found on Esty (which is terribly adorable but more than I am willing to pay) here it is,
and here is the link incase you would like to buy the original, and please do. (at least until I get the energy to make another one and sell my own version on Etsy
Esty speaking of my own version, here is the first batch of the animals on the 70's sleeper sofa (currently dominating what will eventually be the baby's room) where they look somehow appropriate.

My darling husband Ryan went out and bought two different girths of dowel (somehow that doesn't sound right)in order to make the "x" that the little guys hang from, and I ordered some vintage multicolored Ric Rac apparently from seller Myluckynumber9 who apparently is headquartered in Malaysia (!) which came in this charming envelope:
addressed to my Esty Shop, the Ruby Aviary...(currently there are only paintings for sale, but SOON I hope to do a major re-haul and sell my little felt and crafty creations on there as well) anyway back to the envelope and my husband...I wish I could show a close up of the lovely dove stamps on the envelope, which appear to be actual paper LICKABLE stamps,which makes it all the more charming, but I seem to have temporarily lost my camera and must rely therefore on the scanner (which I used to upload this image) and my good old Hipstamatic app on the Ipad (which supplied the other image) ok. back to my husband. He went to Home Depot and got me the dowels and after I selected a size, proceeded to hang the little critters, which is now a fully fledged mobile and truly adorable, I must say. Ok that's enough of this innagural post! back to crafting! more very soon -Jess