This is my latest art project, and my second attempt at quilling. This was my first attempt.
I am pretty stoked with this one, I wanted to just use autumn colours and have the quilled teardrops be like falling leaves.
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The shiny spots you may notice is just the glue drying. That is the suckiest part about quilling. It is freakn hard to get the glue to stick to such a small surface area! I generally use a paintbrush to coat the base of the paper generously then stick it down hard and hope for the best!
- I have dyed my hair, bit of an impulse move, not sure how I feel about it yet, probably when it lightens up in a few washes it will look closer to the 'strawberry blonde' I had envisioned. It does however, make my blue eyes look super bright and awesome.
- I made my very first Mince Chow Mein. YUM!
This recipe uses only one (large) pot! Easy!! Plus you can extend it out with beans/lentils and it makes about six dinner-sized portions.
Mince Chow Mein Recipe
- The latest set of Love Bombs have been sent! Check out Sophie Slim's blog for all the latest.
- We finally met our neighbours! (After 1 year...oops). One we met while Dave was out doing some tree
hackingpruning and the others we met when their car got stuck in the stupid gutter drains. (Seriously- they don't make the driveway planks wide enough)
*tip - use a car jack to jack the car up so its wheel is off the ground and slide a sturdy wooden plank under to use as a ramp. Lower the car then drive on out!
Anyway, the neighbours are lovely, I might have to do a baking mission sometime.
Enjoy the rest of the week!
Love it! I used to do quilling as a kid but I haven't done it for years! Might be time to dig out the old quilling tool. (Is there are name for it...?)
ReplyDeleteHaha I have no idea, I just use a skewer :)
DeleteLooks great. I remember having a go at it once - it seems to be having a resurgence
ReplyDeleteYea it pops up on my pinterest feed every so often and I think it looks so pretty!
DeleteNice tree! Your hair turned out a beautiful color - it looks very natural. I've been quilling for awhile and have found that with glue, less is more. Use a light touch when applying it. I use long tweezers to handle the coils as it seems I can be gentler with them that way and can place them exactly where I want them to go. hth!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by! Tweezers - why didn't I think of that! My fat fingers keep flicking the non-glued ones out of the way. Thanks for the tips!
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