Last Saturday I attended a workshop at the new Prairie Art Stamps store. I went to learn about grunge paper and to use grunge paper to decorate a wooden bird. The workshop was fun and the grunge paper is amazing. Of course I bought some. I liked my bird, but wanted to change out the small base that it sat upon and add some other elements. I have been trying a variety of bases, and settled on a wooden base with tiers that I bought at a garage sale two weeks ago. I liked the base, but it needed more. First I added polka dotted paper in a strip around the middle tier. Then I put a keyhole in the center. Of course the keyhole needed keys, so I started digging in my key stash. The vintage keys were nice, but why keys & keyhole? I added tags to the 4 keys--love, friendship, faith, and education. The word KEYS was added to the bottom with vintage typewriter keys. The bird has a key dangling from its beak and a lock and key dangling from its tail. I titled it "Keys--A Little Bird Told Me." I added it to my Etsy shop because I have purchased a showcase spot for September 22 and thought that it would be a good item to showcase. I had intended to just showcase my bowl of fruit books, but they have been on the site for several months and this is new. Of course, if people click on the bird, they will see the altered fruit books as well.