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So I'm going to take advantage of my bird cage collection and string it along a bit more...
I found this beautiful vintage cage and stand while visiting western Massachusetts last year... Here's a picture of it in the shop, right before I carted it out to the van!
And here's the plastic Pete who lives in this chippy white birdcage, which now stands in a corner of our living room.
The very nice thing about plastic Pete's (as has been mentioned in previous comments) is that they aren't the least bit messy! Can you imagine what this scrapbook paper (that I lined the bottom of the cage with) would look like if that was a real parakeet up on that perch?
The base is also old and chippy... perfect for a shabby cottage look...
I sometimes decorate this cage for the holidays. This is what it looked like during October with a little white bird nesting on a big pink floral pumpkin!
And at Christmastime, it became a vintage barn for the glittery sugarplum reindeer that I painted...
And here's yet another blast from the past... My little sister and I posing with Nana's Pete (again, with his cage door open)... This is a rare photo from our old albums. Purchasing color film and having it developed was much more expensive back in the 50's, so this is one of just a handful of color photos that I have from that era, the majority being black & white...
Check back tomorrow for my one year anniversary giveaway post!
Donna