So I get this idea see..

Was in Hobby Lobby a few weeks back and they have these tiny LED/battery operated strings of lights and I got an idea.   What if I took one of the inexpensive shadow frames, wrote something about the night on black paper and put the lights behind it (after poking holes in the paper first of course)?  

This was a fun and quick project.  The only advice is I would try to find a string of lights with fewer lights.  It was a bit fiddly trying to get them all in to place.   The quote is from Galileo "I've been too fond of stars to be afraid of the night."   An advanced version of this would make a lovely nightlight for a small child.  AC current though, batteries can get expensive. 

Flourishing fun

While I'm at it....
OK...so I've been thinking about flourishing again in a big way.  Yesterday and today I decided to try some things I've never tried before, namely some corner work, a swag, and an extended banner.   They aren't perfect but for a first time, I'm fairly pleased.   I think next time I want to do a swag, I'll get a drapey piece of fabric, like a scarf, and hang it up as a model.   It's so hard to imagine how fabric hangs for some reason.  Weird huh?

 

 

Happy Holidays.....

Seriously, I truly don't like thinking about Christmas when it's 93 outside but I have to work at least a season ahead so there ya go.   I've started the Christmas tags in a big way and have cranked out 15 so far.   Several of them I know I will go back and add 'something' but for now, at least these are in the bag.   Christmas and Hannukah are easy holidays to work on.   Stars, lights, hats, trees, and so on come quickly to mind.  But what do you do for Happy New Years?   Wine bottles and wine glasses?  Maybe '2013' written out in quilled paper?   I am really going to have to put my thinking cap on for that holiday.  

An exciting bit of news.  I'm partnering with Judy Shears to give a little after-meeting class on flourishing, which is a passion of mine.   Judy's been taking Harvest Crittendon's online class (on my TO DO list) and this weekend showed me some of the things she's done.  Just beautiful.  So there's another motivation for me to get busy making things to sell at the holiday sale and whereever else I can.    More money means more classes and calligraphy stuff!   Yays all around.
Cheers!

I have a domain name!!!

On the advice of a good friend, I decided to register a domain name so if I actually have a business in the future, I can have this to operate under.   So...for right now...it's just a registered name with GoDaddy.   And its "ifitspaperetc.com".   I like that because much of what I do involves paper but I wanted to leave it open for other things---like the engraving.   Neato keen...I feel like an adult now. 
Cheers!

Done with fall holidays

Now on to Christmas and New Year's.   Decided to take it easy the last couple of days.  It's easy to work on this and get burned out.  Hopefully I'll get some Christmas tags done tomorrow though, can't rest too much!   Here are my favs of the latest batch.

and a silver heart flourish with a wee bit of quilling ....

Turkeys!!!!

Shifting my production to fall holidays--Halloween and Thanksgiving in particular.   I had an idea for some small turkey motifs and this is how they turned out.   I like them a lot. 

I have others to post but need to get some better pictures first.
Cheers!