Arts and Crafts Collection

This was a long pending order from a friend. I should be thankful to my friends who give the order and wait for the delivery :-). My friend wanted to send this as gift to his friend as a birthday gift. At work I was busy and also going through lots of emotional set backs, I had to complete this order. My friend had ordered this long back, trusting me.
Here are the handmade jeweleries and card I sent:
(A quilled card, after many months I tried quilling:)
 And some jewelries :

I'm happy that , the gift reached in time and she was happy to see the jewelries. I will definitely try maximum  to keep all my customers happy.

-Ranjana

I wanted to publish this post yesterday, 5th Sept 2012, on which Teacher's day is celebrated in India.
 I think for everyone mother is the first teacher. I learnt many things from my mother. In crafts, she taught me stitching, how to sew, how to do embroidery etc, etc. Then my father, who taught me first lessons of spiritualism, lessons of life, how to face problems. Whenever I was tensed about academic exams, I remember he used to tell me " Don't worry , these exams are nothing compared to exams given by life. In academic exams you first learn and face the exam. But in life you first give the exam and then learn the lessons of life". How true!
I remember all my teachers  . I cherish and praise them and thank all of them. Especially my Maths teacher, who motivated us to learn.
I learnt different forms of arts and crafts from different teachers. I thank all of them, who made my life beautiful! Still all of them inspire me.
My little son wanted to wish his teachers by giving cards to them. He requested me to buy some cards. I thought it will be better if I make some cards using quilling. Here are those:

Today my blog completes one year!

    Before I started this blog, I was not much aware of blogging. Whenever , I used to browse for new designs in embroidery or paintings etc, I used to come across some blogs. That's all.
Simply registered this blog , and  for 2 months I had forgotten about this. One day(on 20th Jan 2011),suddenly remembered about my blog registration, but confused about what to post. I'm always passionate about arts and crafts. I forget everything whenever , I work on any form of arts/crafts.  Whenever I was unhappy , this hobby has soothed me. In my happy moments , this added more joy to my happiness. So thought of blogging about arts and crafts, my works, my paintings, dress design etc,etc.
(Apart from the above mentioned reason, I thought, if I write ,hardly anybody would read. If I post some pictures and write one or two lines, atleast some people would come across my blog while searching for images :-))
   I wanted to keep this blog very simple, so name is also straight forward, "Ranjana's Craft Blog". I thought, it would be difficult for me to maintain this blog, so I would forget about this blog , after one or two posts. So whatever, let me start. So started this with a post about "Quilled card ", which I made for my sister in law. And after a week, I learnt screen printing on fabrics, excited to share about that. So posted some of my works in screen printing, so it went on...Now, 33 posts about different forms of arts and crafts, my experiences with arts, artists etc and 23 amazing members(Sorry 22, I'm one of the members. Thought, if this blog didn't get any reader, at least one follower will be shown in the followers list :-)), many lovely comments from many readers, visitors, more than 13000 page views! Thank you for all the support and encouragement!
Some readers, have suggested me to improve the look and feel of this blog. I'm working on that. Soon this blog will have a little bit makeover (Not too much! I want to keep the blog simple)
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I had started the blog with a post about a quilled card. Here is one more quilled card, I made to send to my sister in law. My son insisted, to send  bouquet of flowers, so made this card with bouquet design. I've taken this design from a pattern book.
Here it is
















Hope she likes this.
      
  I will share a lot about different forms of arts and crafts, and of course about my favourite things, my hobbies, my experiences, about many artists whom I've met and learnt from them, about my embroideries, my paintings , my skteches ... I'm not a good writer, but trying to share my experiences with arts and crafts...because for me its easy to express in the form of arts/crafts rather than words.

Working on some sketches.In my next posts, I will share about those.

Love, laugh and live the life to the fullest.
-Ranjana

I was never so much interested in paper craft. But while browsing about craft, I found some beautiful quilled cards and designs, which inspired me to make this card. I fell in love with this craft.
This is the first card made by me. My son has sent it to my sister-in-law Roopa.Waiting for her response!!!
Planning to make some more cards, if I get some time.