the tale ( 14 - 7 - 14 )

Yes !

All the last little bits and pieces 

are attached to the bigger piece.

The tale can be told !

I read this tale in the novel 

"Bone House"

by Betsy Tobin.

(the book is set in Elizabethan England  and the tale

 was told by one of the main characters in the book)

"Near a village lives, hidden in the woods, a wonderful mystrerious bird. 

All those who have ever seen a glimpse of it, tell their own wonderful story.

A traveler hears all the wonderful stories and is desperate to find this

miraculous bird. He then roams through the woods, without finding it, untill

in the end he does catch a glimpse of its beauty. He grabs his bow and 

shoots the bird. Then, where it fell down, he only finds a small gray black

little bird ..... At long last, he puts the dead bird in his bag and returns to 

the village. He tells the villagers that he saw the bird in the end ... and that 

it was just as wonderful as they all had told him. He tells them to keep

safe this wonderful miraculous bird and leaves the village, to never return."

The villagers

telling their strories about the beautifully coloured bird.

The mystrious bird 

(everyone tells a different story about its beauty)

The dark woods, with a glimpse of colour

The traveler shooting the bird

and when it falls to the ground, he only finds this.

But the story has to be kept alive ...

THE  END 

another player in the flow

My embellisher story-telling piece slowly continues

Another player had to be added.

Wel not exactly, because he was already there,

but now (only) he continues on the other side of the piece.

This little extra piece was also backed with a bit of green fabric,

I had to make a bow and arrow

and just had the right (thin and thick) coloured wire.

The string of the bow I poked through one hand,

and the bow was fastened in the middle to the stretched other hand :

stitched tightly between wool and fabric.

(then I just tied the thin wire around the bow)

Here I'm attaching the little piece to the backside of the "setting'"

More wire.

This time to make the whole piece standing upright

(fiddly business)

(to be continued)

I made two more "pages" for Sara's Challenge

But this at least one of them is for someone

in the group of "sister-challengers" 

We are waiting which name for each one of us 

comes out of the hat

;-)

So : no pictures

otherwise the surprise is gone.