Day 6 - Well Owl Be!

The doldrums of summer vacation have set in. My 14 year old son, Tyler, has succumbed to the boredom August often brings before the excitement of school begins. So of course he loved the idea of 365 Days of Halloween if for nothing more than the creative spark is seems to bring. While browsing the art stores just down the road, he happened along a book for creating stuffed animals from scratch. Ten dollars of felt and a few pricked fingers later, he has been happily idling away his time creating little monsters that are beginning to fill my office shelf. Thus he gets credit for the creation of the day because I just loved today's little creation...a bewitching little stuffed owl. There was a lessoned learned from this little guy today...art has a tendency to take on a shape of its own. You begin with one thing but end up with something entirely different. There's no one right or wrong way of doing it! The owl began it's life as a cat. But as the last stitches were sewn, the character of the creation changed. Two wings and a hat turned the feline into a charming little owl just waiting to brew up a little trouble. Art has a little magic all its own, doesn't it?