Ducky's!

Do you remember your nan's house? Lots of brown shag pile carpet, with trinkets on every shelf. I remember the constant smell of food too. A great place, but one thing that sticks in my mind is the ceramic wall ducks!

Image from "Antiques Plus"

This retro 'fad' which was once the height of 'dag' is back. Birds are cool, they always have been, but they're now cool in a design sense and we're embracing them at the speed of knots. For me, one of the COOLEST bird images is the wall ducks. I was fascinated as a child looking at the 3D wall art, which looked as though they were flying out of the wall, due to the flush side nestled against the flat wall. You could have the big Duck leading the pack or the small duck up high at the front, the combinations of the three (small, medium & large in every set of three) we're endless. Although the common look was small-bottom left, medium-middle, large-upper right. This was interactive art in every house wives home...( i do hate the term 'house-wife' but it does pertain to this period of time in a "kitchly" appropriate way).

A new take on the old ceramic ducks are the wall stickers, which are very Vogue at the moment. Most groovy bars are sticking black silhouettes of enormous chandeliers on their walls. This image shows just how cool you can make this old idea. Shiny vinyl flying ducks above my couch? Yes Please!



Flying Duck Wall Stickers- Image from "thisnext"




So this has been some of the inspiration for the Birdy Brooches Duck's. Wear one, two or all three in the three different colours to change it up...

The Duck design is going to get an improvement with the addition of a gem eye, and I'm thinking of taking the design to necklaces and earrings...still working through the technical aspects of this, but I'm confident we can make something new and great with this concept.


In the meantime, get to Made It and check out ALL the mad handmade stuff, including the Birdy Brooch range and watch this space for more...



Cheers

C