Some Quilled Earrings

Some earrings that I had made a while ago but hadn't taken proper pictures then .... And then they were sold, so a couple of these are the pics from before they turned into earrings :)

This one looks like some sort of mechanical gears and grease earrings, with a metallic touch ! I was trying to get 2 colors one on the inside and one on the outside to see how the colors would look and well, not too shabby eh ;)

My first attempt at the Royal Flower, had a little tough time getting all the lengths same every time and I actually realised how much patience I had ( For those of you who don't know me, I'm the sort who can't stand waiting 1 minute for the microwave to heat food , ha ha ) And I believe this was the first earring sold that day. So yayyy  .

Another first attempt, the Malaysian flower, I absolutely love the originals !

The simplest ones and yet they look so nice ! Crimped paper rolled ...

Quilled Hairbands for sisters :)

In the sale that we had, a dad with 3 daughters picked up a hairband and told my husband "There's going to be some fighting at home tonight".
So, I decided, I need to make some more, it took me a week to get the time, and you won't believe it if I told you, but I actually made this on my way to office in the office bus ! Do not ask how I managed :)
Hubby told me that the dad was really really happy that we actually made 2 more specially for him(even though he didn't ask for it)
Yayyyyyy ! Its so nice to make someone happy !

Quilled hairbands

Couple of quick hairbands with simple quilled designs on top ..

Black hairband with quilled red flowers

Simple quilled loops hairband

Charity sale of handmade and quilled cards and accessories

Hiya guys,

The charity sale was a success !! Our first stall and I am very happy that we managed to raise a decent amount of money. Thanks to all the people who contributed and I do hope the people you gift my handmade beauties to like them. And if you are going to use them yourself , yayyyyy !
I am sure most people there were exposed for the first time to quilling and paper accessories.  I had cards, earrings, hairbands and photoframes :)
Quilled Earrings Sale Sale Sale !! (I so wanted to do the vendor call like when they sell tomatoes on a cart) but not this time ;)
Some pics of the stall below ... 

 Should we take the pink or the blue?

Quilled Earrings

There's going to be a sale at my hubby's office, the proceeds of which go to a charity - the items on sale have to be handmade :)
The one thing that I am currently Loving is Quilling. So, I had to do something with that. While cards and stuff first popped into my head, I realised I'd want to make something that people may use more readily. (Cards tend to need an occassion dont they) So, earrings it was :) And no, it has nothing to do with the fact that I have been dying to make some since a month ;)

Green and Purple Flower Earrings

Yellow and Blue Hanging Flower Earrings

Cute Duck Earrings

Pink Loop Earrings

Blue and white circle earrings

My aquamarine starburst earrings

 

 

Peaches and Cream earrings

Simple and colorful small earrings

This is what I came up with when I got bored of the girly designs(just a 15 min phase, it passed :) )

Yin yang earrings

Eclectic shaped pink and funky green earrings

Red Dewdrop earrings

Heart earrings

My little Butterfly earrings

Hypnotic earrings, (seriously keep staring at the circles)

All the earrings laid out together ...

I had such a good time making quilled earrings. These are like my first batch of cookies, simple stuff but it makes me happy .It has been mostly a learning experience for me - sourcing the metal hoops for the earrings in Bangalore , tough job :) But this nice guy in Commercial Street managed to source some for me. Turns out I didnt have the right pliers to tighten the loops after looping the paper through it. I managed to over Mod-Podge some earrings so they look just plain goopy (oh yeah, broke my heart to see a nice quilled earring rendered un-usable). And of course, once the earring was ready, it just wouldnt balance right or it would keep changing direcrtions going sideways or doing a 180 turn ;) What joy !! But I must say, valuable lessons learnt. I still have some time to go and have some other plans up my sleeve. Wish me luck, I do hope to be able to make a valuable contribution through my limited skills.