After I reached home, I obviously browsed about it and was astonished to know that quilling is an art practiced worldwide that I was totally unaware of. I felt alien. The amount of exponent information I got was incredible. My mind was completely blown with all these quilling artifacts. Excitement had definitely crossed its limits, I was bound to learn it, give it my creative touch. I always loved colors, who doesn't right? But the way I saw colors was different, it was a way I got away from all negative and depressed thoughts. It makes me a cheerful person. Right then, I knew I was going to be a quiller too. But it wasn't all that easy, I absolutely didn't have any of the quilling materials required for quilling, that never stopped me. It still amuses me what I did after that. I literally painted blank sheets of paper with different colors and cut them into 3m and 5m sizes so that I could use them for quilling, just to clarify; at that point of time I didn’t know what 3M and 5m sizes meant, I figured it out later when I started purchasing the readily available ones.
I started to make different shapes. It was all amateur stuff, but felt quite happy that I was able to something. People really did appreciate since it was new to them as well. I took it serious; I wanted to do better than what I was already doing, meaning quill with the right quilling products. Finally I stepped into a craft store, purchased almost all the quilling materials required for proper quilling, though I still haven’t used most of them. You see the thing with shopping craft materials is absolutely irresistible, until we convince ourselves that we’ll buy it the next time. With that I was all done to start quilling in a proper way.
I spent hours browsing about quilling, I remember those days I was as curious and excited to know all about quilling. Each day I learnt and tried something new. Facebook was a great medium for me to know few great quillers, they were best at what they did. Honestly I was intimidated at what they did, such perfection and flawless creations. Absolute treat. I then decided I couldn't do something like that, because I knew what I was capable of. I didn't restrict myself from learning but chose what I would be doing to start off with. So, I decided that I’d take up the art of doing quilled earrings, or say quilled jewelry. I started designing and making them, it bought me such joy. The happiness it brings along with it is impeccable and I was appreciated for what I did which motivated me to try more. People actually loved what I did and purchased them, I could have never imagined something like that to happen because it was not my intention when I begun quilling. But seeing such wonderful responses, I began to sell the quilled earrings. About time when I wanted people to know about my creations, I created my Facebook page ‘ELEMENTS’-Quilled earrings. (https://www.facebook.com/handmadequilledjewellery)
