Adiva, is a little goldfinch doll dressed in a Liberty cotton from the Riviera Collection called Wildflower Poppy. The colours of her dress pick up her colourful embroidery and are a lovely mid summer compliment.
She has camomile in her stuffing and a citrine crystal to her heart. With tiny red leather shoes and a pretty sampler sachet she makes a sweet girl.
We have two families of goldfinches at home. One family to the front of the house and one family to the back garden. I love seeing their little bursts of colour. My goldfinches have both niger seeds and sunflower hearts to munch on and they never choose the niger seeds!
If like me you love your birds then the book photographed by Adiva is a must. Matt Sewell has a range of titles with witty illustrations of our garden birds. The one show looks at the collective nouns for various animals and birds.
I think there is nothing more lovely thank a charm of goldfinches.
I am working on a pattern for a mouse and one for a rabbit that I am going to offer for sale as a booklet, along with a range of haberdashery that I use for making my dolls so I will be a little taken up with that for a while, but I have a yellowhammer on the worktable and I am working out her feather pattern. I had not seen a yellowhammer for years and then a whole family popped up on a favourite walk in the hedgerow and I have seen them twice now. Just in love with gorgeous colours and family song.
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