Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Jack of all trades

And master at none. This the best description of myself I can give you. I lived all my life surrounded by people who rarely accomplished things and I've realized that I am more or less the same.

I become enthusiastic starting anything but soon I get bored with it. Longer I postpone with realization of the started project, worse it is. This of course doesn't mean that I don't finish anything; I do, most of what I start, but in the meantime I need to have some fun with other projects as well. I try things and move on. I wish I was different but you know how it is when you want to work on yourself - it is harder than you ever thought.Some time ago I came across quilling (type a word quilled in Google and you will get quill work of Native Americans in the results, too) and yesterday I saw another quilling project on Martha Stewart's blog. I tried it at home and it is very easy. I used a wooden toothpick instead of the quilling tool, to wind the paper into desired shapes. It is magnificent to see how flexible the paper actually is.


For quilled beauty, created by Yulia Brodskaya one needs more than just a steady hand; without imagination nothing like this is possible. Enjoy!

4 comments:

Urška Sem said...

Pina, beautiful heart!
It reminds me of some wooden craft products (very traditional Slovene Valentine's products ;))

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paperseed said...

Nice heart. Love Yulia's work, especially the "thrifty christmas." Wow.

Pina said...

Pišče, pa res. Sploh mi ni prišlo na misel, da imamo tudi mi nekaj podobnega. A niso tista srca narejena iz skoblancev, tako kot butarice za Veliko noč?

My favorite by Yulia is also "thrifty Christmas". It is amazing how she connects the letters and lines.

Urška Sem said...

Ja, to je to! Pot do srčkanega srčkastega izdelka (iz papirja oz. skoblancev) se sicer razlikuje, končni efekt pa je tam-tam, se ti ne zdi?

Quilling mi je všeč! Sledila sem tvojim navodilom, "zagooglala" in pristala na youtube-filmčkih :-)
Drugi Metulj je na srečo zaspal pred mano, saj mi je cel dan "grozil", da mi bo zvečer zaplenil kablovje od čarunalnika :-) :-) :-) Češ, da sem utrujena :O

Lep dan!