Watercolor Florals, An Antique Italian Painted Cabinet, and a Golden Quilling Motif.

We're already in April and this is the first post of 2015 on Kağıtlık.. It's atrocious, but I blame Instagram for it. It makes sharing snapshots so easy that my inborn laziness thrives on it. Never mind that I've not been able to create something worth sharing or making a blog post about in ages.

But here I am, and I have a couple of things to share. The rectangular white cardstock pieces I had left over from a big gift box order are still aplenty and they occasionally compel me to bring out the watercolors and paint some florals. Here are a few of them.

I don't remember exactly what I was looking for, but a while ago I found myself looking at some lovely antique painted furniture on Pinterest. I came across this lovely cabinet and decided to give the acrylic paints a try with it.

I used copy paper (drew one corner and transferred it to each side of the paper to complete the image) simply because I needed it to be as symmetrical as possible.

 Strangely, when you look at it after rotating it 90 degrees, it makes a pretty carpet design too.

And let me finish with a quilling design that came about on a weekday. Hopefully the next one won't take as many months..

The Quilling Collection: an update

Üç haftadır her gün bu seti tamamlamak niyetiyle bir şeyler çiziyorum, kağıt kvırıyorum, yapıp yapıp bozuyorum. Halbuki "tamamlamak" yok ki bu işte! Ucu açık bir uğraş bu, nihayeti belirsiz; bir anlamda sınırsız bir özgürlük, "gerek"ler, "lazım"lar sadece ben istersem var. Sonuçla değil, süreçle ilgili bu. Başka bir deyişle, eğleniyorum kendimce. Güzeli, zarifi, sevimliyi arıyorum- ortaya çıktığında beni mutlu eden şeyleri. Paylaştığımda sizin de gönlünüze hoş geliyorsa ne âlâ, daha ne isterim! Üç haftada ortaya çıkanlar da bu minval üzre beğeninize sunulur efendim.

Well, I haven't been completely idle these past three weeks. After no sales at all in June and July, August on Etsy has been delightfully busy. But I still made some additions to the quilling set.

Bu sete eklemek istediğim bir kaç quilling dizaynı daha var, ama aslında yaptıklarımı "çerçevelemeye" odaklandım daha çok. Şimdilik, en azından ikisi için içime sinen köşe motifleri yapmayı başardım.

I still have more to add to this collection before calling it complete, but I've been focusing more on framing these lovelies than making more of them. I'm quite happy with these corner motifs! I'm still trying to find the right motifs for the others, sharp corners simply don't work with most of them.

Ve de kendime hakim olamayarak, ilk fırsatta üzerinde çalışmaya devam edeceğim yeni setten de inşallah nazar-ı dikkatinizi celbedecek bir resimle bitireyim. Pek sevdiğim bir deyişle, sağlıcakla kalınız. ;)

And I will finish with a "teaser" for my next quilling set (though this is gone too astray to be called quilling anymore). Stay tuned for more!