Piece of the artist: When buying from a hand maker, you are buying more than just an object. You are buying hundreds of hours of failure and experimentation. You are buying days, weeks and months of frustration and moments of pure joy. You aren’t just buying a thing, you are buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a moment of someone’s life. 

Yup! I`m a quilling addict

Humanity over practicality: Buying handmade supports the concept of keeping it real!! Handmade puts humanity back into our lives. You support the local community of artists, encourage stay at home moms, help contribute to establish a new economic model, boost the use of recycles materials and contribute to decreased fossil fuel consumption. And let’s admit it, buying handmade is so much cooler!!! 

​Treasures are Handmade and not mass produced: Imagine if there were more than one Kohinoor diamonds in the world, or more than one Taj Mahal. Appreciation for a handmade product is million times more than for a mass produced product. Answer this: why do you have a drawer full of hand written cards and letters, even though they are just occupying space?

Buried under pieces of craft paper, mounds of fabric, beads rolling on the floor and piles of glitter; as I look around the mess I have made in my house, I feel a sense of accomplishment and I can proudly say, “I made that!” 

I believe there is an artist in all of us. I Quill. It is the art of taking thin strips of paper, of varying widths, rolling them, and shaping them. You then take these little shapes and glue them together to create awesome quilled masterpieces.

In today`s world, where mass production has taken over, I’m going to give you a few reasons (some logical, and some purely emotional) why you should buy handmade art when every piece of art is readily available in bulk in stores. 

One of a kind: Have you ever been to a mall and run into another person wearing the same tee-shirt as you? With handmade stuff, you will never face this situation. Your stuff will always be unique. You don’t have to ever say that you bought it at Ikea ;)

Here’s something I read that summed up all the above points beautifully, “You can’t buy love, but you can buy Handmade. And that’s kind of the same thing”

So, what do you think?  Would you consider a handmade quilt over factory produced?  Are you going back to basics in some way or are you one who believes that we should embrace all things that make us go faster and easier?

Be assured, it’s made with love: Long before my stuff even exists, I spend sleepless nights just thinking about what it would look like, how will it function and what its purpose will be. I invest a great deal of time in the planning process. Once I know what I’m making exactly, I have to find the perfect material to complement my idea of the finished product. I then shop until I find just the perfect things to make the stuff I have envisioned. For days, I have dreamt of the finished product. And when I finally hand over my production to you, I sign it off with lots of love.