Tico-tico is a girl!!!!!

My husband and the biologist, she is also Ana, when we met

Dear friends

It seems that Tico-tico is a little girl!!!!

And I have a lots of news to tell. As you may remember what we really want it is to return the little bat to her colony. So, she is now with a biologist, specialist in bats, more precisely species that are from Portuguese habitats and of course it was from her that we knew that Tico-tico is a girl.

We miss her little baby bat a lot!!!! she is so cute and sweet. But she is doing well, eating lots of good things, vitamins and calcium and learning how to fly at night (we hope).

Kite paper and balloons!!!!!!!!!

Kite paper and balloons!!!!!!!!!
Cute wall lights to your nursery room or shop

These wall lights are very easy to make, just takes a few hours and no expensive or special materials are needed. these were designed by myself, so you can use the design , with no problem.

Materials
Wood (obeche wood with 3 mm width maximum)
Thin paper card
Metal rule
Kitchen paper towel
Fine sand paper
Sharp craft knife or x-acto
Tacky glue
Pencil
Acrylic paints (colours of your choice)
Embroidery thread (white or brown…or as you wish)
Filler
Electric bulb with wire and plug
Kite template

Kite-paper

Important measures
Tail about 7.5 cm (about 0.5 cm with be to glue the tail to the back
of the kite
Number of tiny bows: 7-9
Tiny bows: about 1.2X 0.5


Draw a cross with 2.6 X 4.0 cm in the thin card and complete the drawing creating a lozenge (also called diamond), this is your template. Use it to cut it in the wood. Keep the template! you are going to need it for the back side of the kite (see photos).
Sand carefully. Draw a cross in the front as you see in the picture. With the help of the x-acto or a craft-knife, use the lines to make the two grooves.
Now if you want give a fine coat of filler and sand again, in order to have a nice smooth surface, maintaining the grooves!!!!!!!!!
In the back make also 4 little grooves as explained in the picture, they will be use to glue in place the tiny pieces of wood and the kite tail.

Paint the kite with colours of your choice. I painted with to tones of the same colours and I like very much the effect. After drying with a soft cloth polish the surface gently, this will allow you to get a beautiful finish.

Making the tail: paint a piece of the towel kitchen paper with dilute acrylic paint, the stronger one you have used in the kite. Let it dry. Separate the double paper layer, just use one to cut little rectangles (average length 1.2X 0.5 cm).
With the help of a tweezers hold the, the rectangle in the middle, press in order to obtain the little bow. Just like this, glue it on a piece of white embroidery thread. Make 7-9 bows like this.
Now it is time to glue the tail and the ends on the back of the kite, on those little groves you have done. Everything is in place? Wait to dry; now you can glue the card template, to have a nice back.
Cut a cube (more or less) of wood, and open in the centre a tiny hole, just large enough to pass the electric wire with the lamp attached. You can put a drop of glue to maintain it in place. Complete with the connection of the plug (remember that if you want to hide the wire, you must make the hole in the wall first, put the wire trough it, and then connect the plug (see photo of the toy shop, yellow kite), and voilá you just need to fix your kite to the wall………


Tip – if you are one of those that don’t have much time to spend on making miniatures, but still love to do your own one, just make the kite in thick card (about 3 mm thick), decoration can be made with paper, painting or even with real fabric, maybe matching the nursery room, make the tail as described and, glue the bulb in place.

Balloons:

you will need a piece of wood with 4.6 X 4.6 cm to make the two balloons that are together in one piece!!!! (see the photos and the draws)
The little one painted in yellow is a “circle with about 2.0 X 0.8 cm
Pay attention to the photos to see the part where the thread is tightened as if it was use to hold the balloon…

Note: If you can, put two bulbs, in opposite directions, it will look much better!

Tico-Tico and my dollhouse!!!!

He is so cute!

Tico-Tico and new followers!!!!!

I must thank to Tico-Tico for a fantastic number of visits in the last few days and new followers . He is, for sure, my best miniature LOL!!!!
He is in very good health, eating at least 3 larvae in each meal, and my husband is feeding him about five times a day.....

Tico-Tico! no words to describe this photo!

He is sleeping, can´t you believe?

Tico-Tico new photos!!!!

Tico-Tico! good news

Yesterday, Tico-Tico had is first solid meal, with no problem; today he ate a larvae as breakfast.
This week-end I am going to take more photos of him to put here.

Tico-Tico

He is OK! we are trying to feed him with solid food, it is very important that he learns how to feed for himself. Yesterday, we also tried to teach him how to fly.....believe me this is not an easy task.
But we believe he is in good health, he sleeps a lot, what I think is normal, since he is still very young. We hope we are doing everything right.

news about the "Tico-tico"

he is going very well as you can see!

(not so interesting (LOL), I have finished another bag)

more news about the little bat

http://www.arkive.org/pipistrelle-bats/pipistrellus-pipistrellus-and-pipistrellus-pygmaeus/further-info.html

It seems that the species is Pipistrellus pygmaeus, see this page, is in English.
I talked with a biologist of the Faculty of Science, and we are now trying to feed him with some insect larvae, to teach him how to eat by himself, and only when he is able to fly and to eat , we can try to put him back to the colony.

Baby bat, Monday news!

Yesterday, we saw him trying to fly!!!! We think he is able to fly. Today he has breakfast with us (LOL), he is very active and healthy!!!! I gave him a name "Ticotico (the "i " is to be read as the "i" in "active"), because of the sounds he makes, my husband did like the name, so it is Ticotico, the little bat :) :)

news about the cute little bat, sunday! part II

Baby bat is eating very well, 3 times until now. His behaviour seems very good, he sleeps a lot during the day, he makes those characteristics noises, just like claps when he is hunger. Just, now he is sleeping in the usual place, my husband shirt pocket, hearing opera! LOL
We decided to keep him with us, because it is impossible to know if his mother will reject him. Tmorrow I will contact our Zoo and the Department of Zoology of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences (I am a biologist and I know lot of people there). Meanwhile, we are feeding him just with milk.
But , from what we have been reading, in the middle of July, they should have about half of the adult size. The bats , all the species in Portugal, eat insects, so we can feed him with those insects that we can buy in animal stores, I hope.
We don´t know if is a boy or a girl. ....

news about the cute little bat, sunday!

I found him, he walked all the way along to the living room, and of course he was in the top of the curtains!

news about the cute little bat

I can´t believe, yesterday we put him in the hall (entrance), it is the smaller division of the house, hanging on in a curtain we have there, all doors closed and today we can´t find him again!!!! we are almost sure he can´t fly, he is to young for it...but where could´t him go?????

we have a cute little bat

My husband found a very young bat, just in front of the entrance of the building where I work. There is a colony of bats, just at the top of the front door, under a metal plate (with the name of the building). The little fellow much have fallen from his colony, and he was so dehidrated, that we gave him water with a little piece of cotton. He must think that my husband is his mother, and likes to stay in his shirt's pocket. Of course we brought him home, because it was so hot out there. Today, this morning we didn´t find him any, and we were very worried. Where he has been during all day, in the curtains of one of our rooms.!!! Now, my husband has given him some water and milk.

I hope to have more news and photos tomorrow.

hugs

Ana

Portuguese decorative wall tiles

Portuguese decorative tiles are beautiful and known around world, Used for centuries in lots of important buildings as palaces and churchs , they are still made using the same old techniques. Some representing classic designs , other with more modern inspiration. I hope you like this ones which I am showing here, making you to serach on the web more about our tiles.

Welcome to my new followers

I have a few new followers! It is so nice when I found I have more people around the world, reading my blog, and this makes me feel so happy. Go to the "seguidores" (followers in Portuguese) and click in the tiny picture to visit their blogs.
A great mini hug for all of you
Ana

bags

I have finished another of my bags! If you want to see, made a visit to my bag's blog www.foreverbags.blogspot.com

And now, welcome for my new followers, Thanks for you all, :):):)

the 10 th of June

Today is holiday in Portugal, it is the day of our country and of all the Portuguese communities around the world. For those that like history, Portugal is one of the oldest European countries, its foundation was in the 12th century.
Tomorrow is also an holiday, but a religious one (catholic), so i am on holidays until next monday because I don´t work friday :):):)

hi! welcome for my new followers

Just to say welcome to my new followers and to say I have put new pictures about Portuguese lovely fabrics in my blog Forever Bags.