A Different Kind Of Pincushion

I needed some fancy little craft 'giveaways' for sewers in a group I'm in.  Last year I made each person a small bird with wired feet that could perch on things (like lampshades, plants, etc.).  This year I wanted to use up some of the empty baby food jars sitting in a bag that I have.  I use chicken baby food for our cat when his appetite gets too low and he starts losing weight - he's hyperthyroid and almost 18 years old. It's a vet trick that works pretty well.

So after searching online and only finding a few 'nice' things I can do with a jar that size, and giving up on my idea of  'elephant in a jar' idea, and not liking the fake cactus images I saw, I decided to do either a bunny sitting up in the jar like it's a rabbit hole, or a nesting bird in very colorful prints.  While I like the bunny idea, doing up a separate head that's only 1" long..... argh!  I looked at Dutch bunnies, the two toned white and black patterns were nice, but not for somthing THIS tiny.

That left the bird idea -- a nesting bird sitting with half opened wings on a nest of those decorative yarn fibers, with the jar holding the ball firmly down inside of it. The bird will be completely above the baby food jar lip, tail up and possibly embellished with beads and such.  I sketched a few ideas out and am pretty sure I'll be going with this idea.  The nest material would be added around the bottom of the bird after it's sewn to the ball. 

I'll have to go buy some decorative pins to stick in the finished project but that won't be very expensive.  It should look ok with only 3 to 5 pins stuck in the back, and while that may be enough, I am still waffling over whether to use glue to invert the baby food jar lids and attach those to the underside of the jar to make that a base for the item.  I have a spray can of metallic silver which will make the lids very cool looking!  Industrial glue should be able to hold metal to glass for this.