Exhibition Coming Up

My piece for the St. Kilda Post Card Show. Titled 'Autoportrait", created with 3mm paper strips glued on their edge.

And an ad (that I won in this show last year), that will appear in Art Guide Australia in November:

500

A quilled D, the Roman numeral for 500 made for a challenge on a Facebook group Contemporary Quilling, that I joined recently and love being a part of. We just celebrated our 500th member, so the groups is running a challenge to quill something related to a golden milestone.

We promised

On November 8 2016, my husband and half of our creative duo died and my world stopped. He was the brains and I was the hands. I don't know what to make anymore and feel sick thinking about it. This is just a distraction to get me through the day. Definitely not one of his ideas - he would have come up with something brilliant.

As macabre as it is, I am linking up to Moo Mania & More Love. Grief is the price I am paying for love. My husband loved all the Moo Mania challenges and came up with every idea.......   including this one.........     in a way...........

With a bit of effects

Little Fun Инчиковый Проект - Ноябрь

Ура - ноябрь на Little Fun!

7.11.16 - Мой любимый цвет

Алёна уже слышала это от меня (но не я придумала это выражение):

Любой цвет красивый, если он чёрный. И вот миниатюрный Чёрный Квадрат Малевича.

14.11.16 - Мои привычки

Кофе по утрам....... всегда......... с 13ти лет.

21.11.16 - Моя мама

Я версия тёщи моего мужа.

28.11.16 - Моя суета (аврал, хаос и бардак)

Вообще, это уборка. Но, в основном, всё крутится вокруг туалета кота - очень много драмы связано  с этим уголком. (N.B.  кот на картинке - посторонняя модель; оригинальный скрыт в целях сохранения конфиденциальности)

Следующий месяц завершающий.

Spiralled Skull

I love how Americans love Halloween. It is such an ace holiday!
Here is an ATC with a skull made from spiralled quilling strips.

Linking up to:

-    ATC Around the World Alles geht mit opt. Gruselig (Anything Goes with Option Scary).

-    Wicked Wednesday Halloween Colours.
-    Moo Mania & More's Halloween Party.

Little Fun Инчиковый Проект - Октябрь

Октябрь пришёл на Little Fun - мы приближаемся к завершению коллекции.

3.10.16 - Мой досуг
Вышиваю с пяти лет и делаю это в каждый свободный момент.
10.10.16 - Моя осень
У на не совсем такие осени, но я люблю осени с золотыми листьями.

17.10.16 - Моё здоровье
Тьфу, тьфу, тьфу, чтоб не сглазить!
24.10.16 - Моё счастливое число
Бог любит троицу.

31.10.16 - Мои страхи
Их столько, что целой книги не хватит, тем более инчика. Тыкв я, ка раз не боюсь. Но, под Halloween, я не удержалась.

Autumn Stuff

Here is my response to the Mushrooms challenge on ATC's met Herz:

Was hoping to capture the little stems hiding in the grass

More stems?

And for Sunday Postcard Art, here is my contribution for this week's theme - Harvest Moon:

Autumn Colours

Although we don't have much of a change between seasons here, I have lived in northern Europe and know all about those autumns. For Wicked Wednesday's first topic in September - Fall Colours, I have quilled leaves using narrow 1.5mm (1/16") paper strips. I wanted to create splotch effects on the paper using salt, but looks like Kraft is too tough for salt  :)
Enjoy the gorgeous palette, all you northern climate dwellers.

Also linking up to ATC Around the World Anything Goes (with onion Sun, Moon and Stars). I am working on the specific Sun, Moon & Stars ATC and will publish it later in the month.

And More Nature

Sunday Postcard Art's theme for this week is Leaves. We don't have much of those glorious autumns the northern hemisphere is known for, but I have lived in northern Europe and have kicked through those leaves  :)
This week I have quilled leaves using narrow 1.5mm (1/16") paper strips. I have also rediscovered a stash of various 6"x4" cards, perfect for postcard challenges. Would like to thank Sunday Postcard Art for showcasing my postcard from last week, which you can see here.
Linking up to Moo Mania & More for the second time this fortnight for their Nature's Beauty theme.

Chocolate Postcard

This week's topic on Sunday Postcard Art is Chocolate. I had to force myself to buy then eat a block of chocolate so that I could use the cover as background for the chocolate-coloured cardinal on my post card. Embellished with quilled coffee beans so that the bird doesn't go hungry. What a difficult topic - fancy that, being forced to eat chocolate!

Another ATC in the Set

Anthropomorphism, Wicked Wednesday's theme this week, what an interesting concept. A while back, I made a quilled hammer march from Pink Floyd's The Wall. This time I have the animated flowers from the same film.

A New View

I have just ordered my very first seeing glasses. That's it, my fantastic 20-20 vision is a bit less now. I am really happy about getting my first glasses, just as I am about my salt & pepper hair - there is something noble about growing older.
So, for this month's topic Alles geht mit opt. Fotoinspiration (Anything Goes with Option Photoinspiration) on ATC Around the World, I have rose-coloured glasses. I will probably still see the greyness of life (because grey is beautiful), but working on my crafts will become much easier.

This is the photoinspiration to work from:

Little Fun Инчиковый Проект - Август

А вот и август и с ним, мои инчики:

1.8.16  -  Мой отпуск
Мои отпуска проходят слишком быстро. Но отсчёты между ними длятся вечность.

8.8.16  -  То, чему я хочу научиться
Хочу научиться играть в бильярд.

15.8.16 - То, что меня беспокоит
Конечно моя семья!

22.8.16 - Моя любимая одежда (или аксессуар)
Хорошие духи. Я в них разбираюсь. Знаю - многим смешно, но на мне лучше всего пахнет Красная Москва. Когда я была маленькая, мне её присылали родственники из Одессы. Сейчас охочусь за ней по-интернету.

29.8.16 - Моя Школа
Для развивающихся умов и тел нужно топливо, а ещё, чтобы обмениваться бутербродами на переменах.

Sunshiney Yellow

Quilled Australian wattle, apt for the Rio Olympics (these are always the colours of the Oz sports uniforms), as well as for Wicked Wednesday's topic this week - Sunshiney Yellow.

And, since this month's topic is Alles geht (Anything Goes) on ATC's met Herz, I am linking to you as well.

Something from the Beach

Be good if you could find enough of those for a whole necklace and a pair of earrings........   just by walking along the beach. For Wicked Wednesday's Things You Might Find at the Beach:

Peacock Feather

Can't control myself, have to show off again. Just found out I won second place with this quilled tiara (second place?! - honestly, what's the world coming to?!). Didn't get the Silhouette Cameo (doesn't matter, I have the Portrait machine), but won the Mint and accessory kit as well as a mysterious gift package.

Meanwhile, beautiful Wicked Wednesday ATC blog have presented us with a colour palette this week. I immediately saw a peacock amongst these colours. Here is one feather using 1.5mm (1/16") narrow strips.

This is the palette to work from:

Could I also dare to sneak this ATC into Moo Mania & More for this fortnight's theme - Summer? Don't know how summery a peacock is, but the colours sure are. Anyway, if I am off topic, please feel free to remove me. But I know you won't 'cause you love me  ;)    Ha, ha, just joking  :)

Head Space

A quilled tiara I made for a quilling competition. Hope I win it - first prize is a Silhouette Cameo machine with mat together with a Silhouette Mint, which is a custom stamp maker.
The tiara is approximately 13cm (5") in diameter and 7cm (2.8") high at the highest point.

Wicked Wednesday have Hair Do as the topic for this week. Here is my quilled hair ATC:

Would also like to show these pieces at Moo Mania & More, where it's Anything Goes this week.

3 ATC's and a Tag

Show Us Your Pussies (which is a cats only challenge blog) and its artistic director Ike have published their theme for the month - Floral Kitties. ATC's Mit Herz came up with Blumen (Flowers).
So here is my response to these two challenges:

The Male Room also have a floral theme with a twist - Make Flowers Masculine. In addition, ATC Around the world have published Anything Goes with Option use Newspaper.

And this is my response to these challenges:

Quilling newspaper is not much fun :)

The gorgeous Wicked Wednesday ATC's challenge this week is Rock & Roll! I have a couple doing the Lindy Hop.

And this is the tag I made for my Tag Tuesday blog, where this week's theme is At the Seaside.

Quirky Stuff

This week's ColourQ challenge has the exact colours of the quilling strips I need to de-stash. So I've come up with this paisley ATC:

3mm (1/8") & 1.5mm (1/16") strip

This is the challenge palette:

Love this week's topic on Wicked Wednesday - Something Quirky. Here's something quirky alright:

And this is a little tag from my Tag Tuesday blog, that I made in honour of snow, which we don't have here.

A Couple of ATC's

In response to Colour Q's palette challenge for this week, I have a quilled chameleon ATC.

He adapted to this colour palette:

It looks like it's Father's Day around various parts of the world. Down here it's not til September.


The keyword on Wicked Wednesday this week is Bookworm. I found this a tough one and eventually ended up embroidering a reading worm. Suppose this can be used as a bookmark. It's been about 7 years since I read a book - shame on me!