No, I will never get tired of posting pics of my quilling. Nevaar!!

More experiments in the design of cards featuring wheat-ear flowers, and another closed-coil tree under the cut. Beware some gratuitous close-up shots because Ernie loves taking them, and they're just too pretty not to post, sometimes.

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Quilling: Getting a ton of quilling done, this morning, having finally realized that things would go a lot faster if I were making my coil and wheat-ear leaves a little more assembly-line style (apply one step to all the strips at once, then go back and do the next step on all at once, etc) rather than making them each completely one at a time. You ( Read more... )

...I should make one when I'm putting off finishing my story tomorrow. In the mean time, random icon with tea! Yay, tea ( Read more... )

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So today was largely made of fail. The morning's mail log pile was enormous, the phone would not stop ringing all day, I was incredibly drowsy all afternoon, my skirt was too tight due to the fact that I just spent the last three or four weeks ( Read more... )

Dude, you guys: Just Say No to Quilling. It will suck you in with how cheap and easy and fun it is at the beginning, but before you know if, you'll absolutely need thirty different little tools for doing different things with paper. Only the catch is, it's never enough: the more toys you get, the more toys you'll want, and before you know it you're ( Read more... )

1. You know the drill: Had a lovely, relaxed three-day weekend, during which I checked LJ not at all. If I missed anything important/amusing/awesome/whatever, leave me a link in comments, pretty please!

2. Quilling: Quilling snowflakes is like asking to go insane. I finally realized that trying to make six identical shapes out of tiny strips of ( Read more... )

So I ended up making Mr. Bill's Valentine a day late due to choir practice and life in general, but it's the thought that counts, right? I was rather pleased with the card I ended up making, even though it was quite simple and a little sloppy (still using those thick construction-paper strips and figuring out how to make them do what I want nine ( Read more... )

So supplyship posted about quilling a couple of weeks ago, and her post kind of made me want to try it for myself. Basically, quilling is taking strips of paper and winding/curling/squishing them into different shapes, the goal being to make some kind of pleasing picture or pattern with your shapes. I went to Michael's and purchased quilling strips (very ( Read more... )