Process: Beach Glass Jewelry with Wildpen
Written by Jewelry on May 27, 2010www.etsy.com See the full essay upon Etsy’s Handmade Blog. Visit the Shop: wildpen.etsy.com we have met the couple of cockatoos in my day, though upon this day, in early June, we met Sunny as well as FlaxMan, dual Umbrella Cockatoos who assistance run wildpen, an Etsy emporium where they sell handmade (er… beak- as well as talon-made) gifts.
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7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
lol great! Where i live we have flocks of the sulpher crested cockatoos and you haven’t heard anything, til you’ve heard them in great numbers!
Keep up the good work! xxoo
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
hehe they are so cute dancing! Its a really nice idea to get the birds so involved. Its a shame your shop doesn’t ship items to the UK, the face mask and vials look great!
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
OMG If I hadn’t kept watching…I ALMOST missed the best part of the video, Hysterical!!! 05:32 on!
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
Gorgeous jewelery and gorgeous birds.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
I enjoyed your video. I love to make crafts from “found” items also. So I like what you do.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
You have to be a person that likes to make crafts from “found” items to understand the beauty in what this adult woman makes. I, too, like to make this type of art, and I am educated, gifted in art and music. ~:-}
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
Why praise something that takes little talent to create. This isn’t kindergarden art on the fridge. This is a grown woman making crappy trinkets.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
Its when people break glass on the beach and its smoothed and pounded by the sand and the surf untill its rounded and cloudy lookin
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
lmao.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
The jewelry is art, unique and beautiful.
Who produced you? (talk about faulty production and BS!
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
What a beautiful life you and your birds have you’ve found Nirvana my Dear….cool surf music to Peace X
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
I’ve never heard of sea glass. What is it?
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
Adorable!!!
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
beach glass are soo pretty! i foun a purple one once i wich i live close to teh beach then id go there everyday if i can to look for stuff
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
i like sea glass. if i were the bird, I would eat it. I also like the beach, so that’s cool that the lady takes them there a lot. better than being stuck in some dingy cage.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
Meet the crazy bird lady who wraps copper around beach glass when the birds tell her to. This is a BS story. Who produces this stuff?
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
I laughed so hard when the birds started dancing.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
obviously very young Toos should not be working/handling glass or beads. this is not the case with these guys – they’re teenagers and know better than to ingest these types of objects.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
the birds are beautiful and sweet & all but i’m not buying the whole “they’re controlling their own destiny” thing, lol…but whatever you want to keep telling yourself…more power to ya!
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
I should mention that Sunny, for instance, just doesn’t fly off. She’s actually very good at obeying rules, which is totally atypical cockatoo behavior.
(The anti bird??)
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
My birdos so I’ll chime in here: Wings *should* generally be clipped but I let Sunny grow hers out. She’s always been a picker and shredder, but shes managed to leave one wing alone and is really proud of it, so the feathers stay.
FlaxMan only has a few of the primaries trimmed, so he can still fly to get away from dogs, annoying conversations, etc, but he can’t freak out enough to go into a building doing mach.
Hope is flighted. It really depends on the bird, training and temperament.
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
nope their wings are just clipped
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
what happens if the bird swallows a piece of glass ?
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
I dont know which I love more.. the sea glass or the beautiful bird!
7:26 am on May 27th, 2010
ha! Did you here FlaxMan complaining that he wanted to rock, when Kate was trying to get him to work? tempermental little artist. love it!!