Bunny with a Toolbelt's Alphabird!

A project in Portland, OR by Hilary Pfeifer
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Alphabird is an alphabet book for bird, music and word lovers, giving a handmade insight to the 26 letters we all know and love.
Backers: 122
Average Pledge Per Backer: $71

Funded: $8,673 of $8,000
Dates: Mar 9th -> Apr 8th (30 days)
Project By: Hilary Pfeifer
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Latest News

S is for.......so many things

April 7th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People!  If you're already a backer and reading this missive, you surely already got the message that Alphabird hit its fundraising goal this morning. Yahoo! Thank you so much to everyone who helped me make this book happen. I've had... (Read More)

U is for......

April 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People! I'm back again with bird number 12. But first, an update on the progress of Alphabird. As I write this, we're a mere one hundred and fifteen smackers from reaching our goal with less than 48 hours to go. Woohoo! I think we're... (Read More)

I'd rather be a penguin than a snail......

April 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People! Did you think I'd forget you today with my update for Alphabird? Even though it's the high holy day of bunnies and exploding peeps and bloody marys and rhubarb soup with vanilla ice cream, I would never ever forget you.   P... (Read More)

A Raven with a Recorder

April 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello again Beautiful People! I'm back with bird #10.....the Raven with a recorder.....AND with great news! As a result of an email and Facebook blast, we're now a mere $1265 away from funding Alphabird! Fingers crossed that there are still a few... (Read More)

W is for Woodpecker

April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People! It's time to show you my favorite bird thus far--the woodpecker playing a washboard! I used my favorite variety of woodpecker as the model: the Flicker. I made my first Flicker about 13 years ago when I was one of six Oregon... (Read More)

A Kingfisher on a Kettledrum

April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Hello again Beautiful People! Ready for bird #8? I hear you nodding! It's a Kingfisher standing on a kettledrum. You'll see that my original poem had him playing a kazoo, and although I like the poem a lot, I didn't want to mess up the beautiful... (Read More)

A Loon with a Lute

March 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People! With barely over a week to go in the Kickstarter, I am back to start dazzling you with my 7th bird for Alphabird: the Loon with a Lute. My strongest memory of this bird was paddling around a moonlit lake in northern Maine some... (Read More)

H is for Hummingbird

March 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People! As of this morning, I'm excited to say that we've reached the halfway mark, both in the duration of my Kickstarter campaign and in the fundraising goal! And since we're on the subject of halfway.....I will also report that I... (Read More)

Dodo and Egret, plus new backer rewards!

March 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People! It's time for a little update on the project!  First off, a very important announcement. We have two new backer rewards: 1. at the $35 level, Kickstarter backers can get an 8x8 full color print of any of the pages in the... (Read More)

scenes from the studio

March 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Again, Beautiful People!  Thank you everyone who gave their input about my chicken vs. chickadee dilemma. Some very good arguments for chickadee convinced me to keep my feet firmly in that camp, so chickens will have to see their day in... (Read More)

Chickadee or Chicken?

March 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello Beautiful People! As promised, I have my completed Chickadee brothers, complete with cymbals and cowbell for the C page of my book. Here they are in all their glory: Cute, but.......last night I was faced with an interesting dilemma while... (Read More)

Hello my little Chickadees!

March 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello everyone and welcome to the first update for Alphabird!  First of all, I'm so honored to have your support of the project--this book has been rattling around in my mind for several years and it feels great to finally be making it happen.... (Read More)

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