Lia’s Owl Collection

You never know when my Friday Story Time by Lia will appear! I have the perfect topic for something that is personal to me. It’s Lia’s Owl Collection that I started collecting the day I was born on August 23, 2018! This is how the story goes, hope you enjoy it.

A few weeks before I was born I gave mommy a scare and she ended up in the hospital for a few days. While she was there, Mama went to the gift shop and get her a cute and cuddly gray owl. I didn’t know it at the time but she also get a pink one to give me whenever I was born. So on August 23rd, I started my owl collection with my first Ty Owl. My first Ty Owl was a medium pink one. Little did I know that mommy was saving the gray one for my collection too!

When I was about 16 months old, we were all at the mall and I saw a small pink owl just like the one I got when I was born and it was just the right size for me to carry all around. So you know the rest, I ended up with a new pink owl! I was so excited I was dancing out of the store!

I carried that owl around everywhere I went! About a year later, even after washings the owl was so worn out! I loved that owl but mommy decided I needed a new one for my collection. Look at my new owl next to my old worn out owl that I still love!

Look at the tiny pink owl I found in another store! The little one has a clip on it and I hook it on my bicycle basket! See his little clip on the edge of my basket, I keep him inside the basket just in case he comes unclipped.

Throughout the years, I received more owls as gifts and I’ve ended up with 8 small ones and the 2 medium ones. I even have an owl purse to match one of my owls!

Was I surprised at my birthday party in Indiana when Uncle Zac got me both a pink and gray GIANT Ty Owl!

When mommy and I got home from Indiana mommy had an idea to display all my owls in my room. But how would we do that? Mommy, mama, papa and me went to Home Depot to get a board and some brackets to make a shelf for all my owls! I was so excited to see how it would turn out.

I helped get everything ready for mama and papa to put the brackets on the wall. I had to inspect it before we put the board up, yup it’s looking good!

Now the shelf is up and mommy told me to leave the room so papa and I went downstairs not knowing what was going on.

While I was downstairs mommy and mama were trying to figure out how to keep the giant owls on the shelf. Wait until you see this video!

Was I surprised when I went back in my room! All my owls were arranged so neat on the shelf!

These are my pink owls from giant, medium, small and tiny!

The shelf is up, my owls are on display but I had one more surprise! Mommy had some butterfly wall decals so I put them on the wall under my owls. My two favorite things, butterflies and owls!

Mommy took a video of all my owls, I think they look great! I hope you enjoyed our project of putting up a shelf and displaying my owls. When Ty has more, I’ll be adding them to my collection!