Speaking of my Brighid in the last post, I couldn’t resist adding a little something more about her.

Brighid was my favourite chicken, she was the most social little girl, she always said hello and ran over, she’d sit on my lap chattering away, she was everything that I had hoped that chicken-keeping would be and more.  She had such a fabulous personality and could be such a goof!

Devastatingly, she somehow ended up with Merek’s disease and she died a few weeks ago in the beginning of December.  I miss her lots, I think of her every time I go to the chicken house (which is every day).  I know some people are thinking, “but it’s just a chicken”, and that’s fine if you think that way.  But to me, all of the animals in my care are my passion, and you can call me the crazy chicken lady if you want, I don’t mind a bit!

And so I was inspired to try my hand at needle felting (which I’d been meaning to do for a while since I took a wee workshop) to see if I could figure out how to create a felted version of my Beautiful Brighid.  Voila!