Giveaway for a Custom Created Quilled Monogram

I am pretty excited!!!

I was contacted by Jan from Jewelry4Change to do a giveaway for one of my quilled monograms.

You can check out the giveaway here. Go on over and enter to win. I would love one of my readers to be the one to win ;)!!

I'm Back

For all of you that are still here reading this blog I would like to say thank you for sticking around. I sort of  took a unexpected break for a while. Most of you probably don't know but was verbally attacked by an "anonymous" person in some of my posts. To me this person isn't so anonymous. I know exactly who it was and I even know why they were doing it and that is their problem not mine. That is all I am going to say about that.

So what I have been up to? Well, my divorced was finalized in January so now I am officially a single woman. I am working on growing my etsy shop. If you read this post you will remember my quilled monograms. I think I have really perfected them and have finally set them up in my etsy shop. To check out my shop just click on my etsy button at the top of my left sidebar. Here are some pictures of a few of the orders I have done.

If you are interested in ordering anything put blogreaders in the code box and get 15% off your order. This code is good thru August 4th 2012.

My kids are growing like weeds. Until recently the last time I had their pictures taken where in this post.
Here they are now

It makes my heart ache a little to see how much they have grown.

I have not been sitting idly by these past few months. I have lots more that I want to share but I think I will save them for a post of their own. I also have a few things in mind that I want to start doing along with bringing back my "Quotes to Remember" posts. So keep your eyes out.

What I have been up to.

Have you ever heard of quilling? Wikipedia says "Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs." I have been interested in it for a long time but had put it off as one of those things that I would get to eventually.


Then I ran across Craftastical and saw what she did. Check it out here. Once I saw that I had to try it. 


So I started out with my kids letters

I was really excited with how they turned out. I made these in their favorite colors using two different shades of that color. These are all 5x7 picture frames.


Then I made one for my sister in colors that she chose.

I just love, love, love that oval frame she had. On this one I did the outline of the letter in black and then used the colors gold, purple and a teal color and it is in a 5x7 frame.


I posted these on my Facebook page and got a few requests from some friends.

This one is an 8x10 and I used light green, dark green and a teal color. The picture really doesn't do it justice. I really wish I was better at taking pictures.
 

 Here is a close up of the colors.
 

 

Another 5x7 of an H. I used two shades of yellow just like I did for the A up top. 


You guys should really try this out and I had so much fun making these. 


After posting all of these on FB I was contacted by a local Children's Consignment Boutique called Taylored Tots to display some in her shop to sell!!! I am pretty excited about it. Once I get everything set I will also sell these in my Etsy shop so if you are interested keep an eye out for them there. Also too you can check out Taylored Tots on FB. She is not just a local shop, she ships things all over the places and she is always posting pics of new arrivals of upscale children's clothes. Go check her out.


Thanks for reading :)

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