Custom Made Grateful Dead Birdhouses

Spring is finally glimpses of itself through the grey clouds and rainy skies! That means its time to start turning gardens, composting your coffee grounds, and thinking about what veggies to grow and torture the kids with at the dinner table all Summer long. Its also a good time to hook one of our feathered freinds outside and add a custom made Grateful Dead Birdhouse to your garden or patio.
Each custom made birdhouse is a testimony to a specific Grateful Dead Song. I study the song content via my GD Lyrical Bible "The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyric Book" , and illustrate each song lyrically on a 9"X9" lightweight Pinewood Birdhouse. I use several different style houses, purchased from a craft store. Each birdhouse, when completed, is treated with Spar Urethane for UV and Weather Protection. This makes the houses fully functional for outdoor use, but many people have chosen to keep them indoors as a display item given their personal value. Each BH is signed and numbered. No songs are recreated. For this, we can all be Grateful that The Dead wrote and covered such an extensive song catalog! There are literally thousands of songs to do!
How do you get a Birdhouse for yourself? Its easy. Just visit my Grateful Dead Birdhouse photo album on facebook . I have attached the URL to this blog update. Not on facebook? Its ok. Just send me an email with your requests and we can discuss YOUR special song. Let me give you two lists right now though. The first is a list of GDBH's that have been completed already The second is a list of songs that have been reserved by people Nationwide by giving a modest deposit. These songs are now also unavailable. See songs that you would like and feel like "all the good ones are taken"? Have no fear. There are more songs than you think to choose from. Simply Google (or Bing) "Complete list of performed Grateful Dead Songs" and you soon see an alphebetized list of songs that The Dead performed in their 30 year reign. Any of these songs can be illustrated. Any cover song, any instrumental jam. Anything. It can be done.
So here are the lists:
Grateful Dead Birdhouse #
1) Cold Rain & Snow 8)Crazy Fingers
2) Jack Straw 9) Sugaree
3) Little Red Rooster 10) Tangled up in Blue
4) Row Jimmy 11) Friend of the Devil
5)Viola Lee Blues 12) Sugar Magnolia
6) Franklin's tower 13) Tons of Steel
7) Brown Eyed Women 14) The Monkey & the Engineer
8) Crazy Fingers
9) Sugaree
10) tangled up in Blue
11) Friend of the Devil
12) Sugar magnolia
13) Tons of Steel
14 The Monkey and the Engineer
Heres a list of Birdhouses in production NOW and reserved:
Box of Rain
Scarlet Begonias
Tennessee Jed
Dire Wolf
Slipknot
China Cat Sunflower
Estimated Prophet
Playin in the Band
Bird Song (Cant believe it took so long for that one to get snatched up!)

PRICING? Very important, I know. As with much of my art, I try to price these on my $20.00/hr payrate. This usually means, i end up working too long for my wages. But I really try to keep these affordable. Most of them come to around $100.00. A birdhouse with less art and detail like "Cold Rain & Snow" (my very first one) was less, around $80.00. But by the time I got to the next one (Jack Straw), I was pouring much more detail into them and this one came upwards of $130.00. I can work with your budget. Just express your concerns with me.
If you are NOT on facebook, I can be contacted at ArtYouGlad@yahoo.com .