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NEW!! Wren Bird Key Rings

!! NEW PRODUCT !!

As a joint initiative with my Granny, her bead men and Wren, we have developed the

Wren Bird Key Ring.

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The story: My Granny is always helping people. She has a strong creative streak in her that she willingly shares with others hoping that they can benefit from it. About 2 years ago she met David and Fungaih/Michael and has been working with them to make a variety of birds and flower pieces that have sprung up at every robot/traffic light in Cape Town. She bought animal books for them to study, almost all their stock (her house is like a bead gallery) and has helped them make a living out of their craft. I fit into this story as the person with the idea and the outlet. I thought it would be super cute if the Wren logo could be made into a beaded keyring…and so it was done.

How they are made: First the silhouette of the Wren bird is made out of wire using pliers. Then a thin wire string of glass beads is looped, twisted and wound around the bird frame. Lastly, the eye is carefully added.

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The Wren Bird Key ring is approximately 5cm / 2″ square.

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Each key ring is individual and is slightly different but I think this adds to the cute factor.

New Wren Wrapping

Finally I have found a use for my swallow silhouettes
The Small Town Bags are still packaged in the classic brown paper bags but now they are decorated with cut-out map swallows.

Using my pile of mis-printed maps I cut miniature versions of my wall-art swallows and spray-glued them to the paper bags. To close the bags I use an old stamp (torn off from sent letters).

My five favourite things about this new wrapping are:

1) The look and effect I think is really great.
2) I am taking a boring brown paper bag and making it special.
3) I am recycling, reusing and upcycling.
4) All Wren packaging now has a common theme: maps.
5) The irony of this packaging: maps, swallows, bag traveling to you…..

Four New Bird Pouches are available in my etsy and dawanda shop.

Things have been absolutely crazy since my little bird pouches were introduced last week and disappeared in only a few days. I have finally gotten the logistics of making more of them sorted out and here are the new bunch expected to hatch in the next few days… so keep a close watch for them because they are expected to ‘fly’. :)