Saint Milburga

I've been thinking about birds a lot lately...I think it's because of the mocking bird that's been hanging around the shed.  Mocking birds are cool in small doses but this one is beginning to make my brain hurt...anyway, this is Saint Milburga.... the patron saint of birds. She had a mysterious power over birds ( they would do what she asked them to...like make her bed and stuff...no, wait, that was Cinderella )
...she also had the ability to levitate...I wish she was my neighbor.

Another Mother Earth

Today I made another Mother Earth...she has flowers in her hair and on her dress and two little birds perched around her and when she's finished she'll have some leafy, birdy, flowery charms and beads hanging from her....

How Odd Is This?

...so,  I've been without internet for a little longer than I'm comfortable with....but today I'm at Six Star Service...a subaru repair shop in Decatur, getting my headlight bulb replaced.... and they have internet!!!! 
I've been wanting to post this somewhat creepy oddness that I discovered a few days ago.  
I started loading the icon boxes I've been working on into the kiln and I noticed Saint Cecilia's head had separated from her neck.....now, if you go back and read the post from April 18th you'll realize why this is so amazingly odd.....and to add to the creepiness of this severed head business...the other icons......made at the same time, from the same clay and dried at the same rate
....well rats, they've finished my car.....I mean I'm glad they were speedy but now I'll have to finish this later in the week .....when comcast comes.....
3 days later....(If you have a Subaru go to Six Star Service subaru repair shop...they are super nice and they didn't charge me labor to replace my headlight bulb...and they have internet!)
Comcast came today and I am all interneted up! 
...back to poor Saint Cecilia. 
What I was in the middle of explaining was that all the other saint/goddess icon boxes I made that week kept their heads...in fact I've never had a head separate like this before.  
I think if this had happened to one of the others I would have tried to fix it but Saint Cecilia seems so determined to let people know what happened to her poor head that I'm going to leave her the way she is.  When she's fired it probably won't be very noticable but I'll point it out and make sure her new family knows her story!