Thoughts From Tennessee: Sad But True

Well today is the last day of my 7 days off but I have enjoyed them immensely and truthfully they did not fly by like days off usually do. I have gotten a lot done and enjoyed lots of free time to do whatever I thought of doing. Back to the real world of work tomorrow. Oh well...

I have been soooo crafty the past two days. I think I was sensing my time off was nearing its end and was having some bizarre form of nesting LOL. Today I decided to quill and found an excellent quilling blog. I started on a small trinket box and had to quill a 2-inch base for it. It required over 20 paper strips and I had about 18 of them done when it came off the tool and completely unraveled.

Surely quillers must swear! I wanted to! So I gave up immediately on that project and decided to work on a project of filling a canvas board with multi-colored tight circle quills. I like the little flowers and vines and various designs that can be quilled but I am more of a freestyle kind of crafter so if it doesn't look like the picture I can say, "I meant to do that!" LOL

I gathered my supplies...

Bought an 8x10 canvas at Walmart...

and then began mixing and matching my paper strips (yes they need organizing but I organized beads yesterday and this is my last day off and so on and so on...)

Then I began quilling my multi-colored tight circles of various sizes and thought I would just cover the canvas randomly with the completed circles. Then I turned on some Praise and Worship music and started to pray while I quilled and began to think of the throne room of God and then I had a creative idea...

I remembered the verse from Revelation (chapter 7, verse 9) where John describes the multitude gathered around the throne of God..."and lo, a great multitude, which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb." My multi-colored, various sized quills reminded of our uniqueness before God and how He created us each so differently and so specifically.

So I decided my quilling project would be an abstract offering of the throne scene from Revelation. Now what about God and the Lamb at the center of this grand gathering? Jesus is called the Light of the World and is the Son of God and certainly God in all His brilliance and majesty is bright and shining. So I decided a depiction of the sun as we see it would be at the center of my project.