long day

It's the day after our national holiday and I am officially exhausted! To say that yesterday was a long day is an understatement of understatements and being back at work today sure doesn’t help! The reason I am so tired was not because I was up late celebrating our Nation like everyone else in the workplace seemed to be doing, no. I was  out in the sweltering heat of our Australian Summer trying to encourage people to buy my stuff. (Not very enthusiastically i might add due to the fact that a) it was abysmally slow due to the heat and i always get an odd feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever somebody buys something that i am especially proud of, or something that took hours of patience and creativity and i wonder if it will be appreciated thusly. Call it weird, or sentimental, but i like my things to go to good homes!

Anyways, the point of this post being - I was feeling down yesterday afternoon so i went home and (after a few Vodka & sodas ) Made this this.

I feel better now.

First Post - Introducing...

 First of all - I am a 22 year old Australian girl . I am a university student and work full time in a government office. I am single with no children and living at home with my Mum, Dad and younger sister.  I love to write and even more I love to craft. These are the things I will be sharing with you through my blog.

I plan to share with you  new works, inspiration and previous crafty things I have completed. I know that Christmas is over and here in Oz summer is in full swing, but I would like to share some things I made for the holiday season.

Some chrissy jewels! These are always a big hit at fairs and markets closing in on Christmas time and I LOVE making them!

Some beaded baubles

And some cute quilled gift tags! Quilling is something that I have been doing only recently, even though I started as a child. I was looking at some other crafty ideas and found a beautiful quilled item (I think it was a gift box) and it inspired me to dig out my old tool and start cutting my paper strips!

For those who don’t know, Quilling is the art of taking paper strips in al different colours and using a tool to ‘twirl’ them into coils. Once the coils are twirled, loosened and glued, they can be shaped with your fingers to form just about any shape desired. It is easily the cheapest craft around and can be done for two minutes or hours on end, depending on what you want to make. And it isn’t just limited to cards and scrap books, oh no. 3D quilling is the art of making free standing ‘miniatures’ that are free standing and can be used as many different things. Centre pieces, Shelf sitters, trinket boxes, cake toppers, finger puppets... the list goes on an on!

Ok. Thats enough on that for today. You all now have had a quilling rant that could have been summed up in the single sentence:

I LOVE QUILLING!

;-)

Keep on Smilin’

xx Laura