why 'The Owl Club'?


The Owl Club collage badge

I've always loved owls. I'm in good company of course: my favourite filmmaker Chris Marker is an owl and cat lover, along with millions of other people. My mum reckons it's their front-facing eyes: it makes them seem so human and cute.

When I was a kid, about 6 years old, I started this club called The Owl Club for owl-loving people.

Its members were a hotch-potch of my friends and (mostly) my mum's friends. The best bit was making the newsletter. I knew clubs had to have one. I would cut out pictures of owls and write about them. We also had jokes (I shudder to think...) and competitions.

We had a drawing competition and people actually sent in all these amazingly beautiful drawings of owls. It was won by dear R, a friend of the family who sadly passed away in 2008. I hope my mum still has them somewhere: maybe I'll scan them and post them here sometime.

Anyway, that's the background to my blog title and Etsy shop name. I made the badge shown above, an owl collage, to commemorate that time.

p.s. if you'd like to learn a few other things about me, check out 10 O-words I love5 reasons why I blog, the 11 things meme, my list of 10 things I'll always love, and  this post on my Kreativ award.

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