Be True To Your School...

They're GONE!  Back to school, off to school, sleepy at school!  The kiddos are outta here!  Don't get me wrong, i love having my babies around me.  But that's just it -when they are here, we play, we do things, we go to practice, etc.  We don't quill - not purposefully anyway!  So...the last 2-3 weeks of summer vaca have been more design time and prepare time, not actually quilling time.  Thus...what "back to school" means for me...is that I finally get to start actively quilling again.  Which is good news because I have about a bajillion ideas for my art show that is in a month ~ I need to get to it!.  I have been working on a historic house, but I ran out of the color of brick i need.  So that's on hold.  But here's a sneak peek...

What I hate about sneak peeks is that it forces me (and you guys) to see every little piece that isn't perfect.  Quilling (mosaics anyway) isn't a perfect art form.  It never will be.  So if something isn't perfectly straight or if a piece of paper is bent just a little...all the flaws show up in tiny focused snippets.  And seeing that can be discouraging.  (Or you could think i am a terrible quiller...which is debatable!)  But when you look at the finished project, it looks fine.  For example, my right window is a little crooked.  I see it - you can't NOT see it.  But when you look at the entire piece, it's not near as glaring.  Will I fix it?  Probably not.  It's just different when it's  complete!

The art show I am in next month will be held at this house, so i thought I would make a quilled replica just for the heck of it.  Who knows, maybe the House Director/Curator will want it!

I'm hoping that over the next few weeks, I get quite a few pieces finished.  Some are simple mosaics, but one is kind of a big undertaking, and I haven't even started it.  We'll see.  I will keep you posted.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Quilling!