I remember ages ago, about 3 years or so. I was driving home through the new forest and decided to get deliberately lost. We ended up driving through this little villiage and all over the place there was these scarecrow type people. It was the freakiest thing EVER they were bending over garden walls, popping out from behind the post box, children ones were sitting up trees that overhung the road, some where queuing outside shops, cutting the grass etc.
It was properly scary. I still have no idea what that was all about, for about 2 miles just all this freaky stuff going on. I googled the village name when i got home and couldn't find anything on it.
People do strange stuff.
We have a village near us that used to have a scarecrow weekend in August (I can't remember the name of the village now) - it was brilliant - they were on the bench as you drove into the village, in the pub garden, in the school playground, on the post office roof, in front gardens in boats etc. It was brilliant - they stopped it a couple of tears ago - I've no idea why as it was a really fun thing to see/do.
You can see on the close up of the side cut-out that each bead is individually sewn on, none of them beads are your applique malarkey 
What a clever girl.
I am stuck in the "Blue Peter" age, I find it very hard to throw pretty shaped boxes and paper paper away cos "In my minds eye" I can see a work of art 
shame you didn't win 
I spent a bit of time early this morning watching tutorial videos on you tube of how to see a piping edge on a cushion 
I love it!