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Today my eldest and I made up a basket with things for garden birds for an aunt of mine who is particularly keen on her feathered visitors. We made seedy pinecones with the help of some peanut butter and we made a nest material ball. We will add in some mealworms and add it into a nice basket.

Cover a pinecone completely in peanut butter, don't overdo it just give everything a nice coating. When it is all covered hold it over a bowl with birdseeds and pour them over the pinceone untill all the peanut butter has been covered with seeds. Press them down lightly so they don't fall off too easily.

To gift them I wrap them up in greaseproof paper like big sweets with ribbon to tie it of either side.

This ball of left over bits of carded wool and wool thread is a favourite during nesting season. Make sure that you put only natural materials in it, if you don't have bits of yern from your knitting projects you can but nesting materials for budgies or parakeets in most petstores which will do nicely.

We made this ball the same way as we did the candle holders earlier. We used the same wire and just kept bending it into squares that slowely got bigger until we had them about 10 cms across, we then made a few squares the same size and the slowely started to decrease the size again unill we where left with a slightly wonky but perfectly fillable shape. We stuffed it with bits of yellow carded wool and a small amout of brown hand spun left from a project a couple of years ago and we where done.

We might add some popped corn strings to this if we get around to doing it and then we add it all into a basket.

Veraxx