Saturday, October 11, 2008

First real blog

This is my first real blog so bare with me while I get used to what I'm supposed to be doing here.
I'm planning on sharing some of my creations here.

I enjoy writing, quilting, drawing and reading. I will try to share some of all of that if I can. I'm not sure how to do all that but I'm sure I will figure it out as I go along.

I have spot on triond.com http://www.triond.com/explore/users-search?search=Peggy+toolen where I have been posting some things I have written. I also have a website at freewebs.com/peggyatoolen to sell my published books and drawings. So far I have published romances and children's books. And offer some of the colored pencil drawings from my children's books for sale on that website.

I quilt but I don't follow patterns. I hate patterns because I feel confined to what they are telling me to do and I love the creative part of it. Besides that I want my quilts to be different than other people's quilts. And for the biggest reason I don't use patterns, they are so darn confusing!I don't really sew much I just do quilts. All the quilts I have done so far are all my own creation.
Oh and I have figured out how to do curtains too to match my quilts. I'll get a picture of the Nascar quilt, pillows and curtains I made for my bedroom. I did it for my husband. He wanted to put Nascar stuff all over the house and I told him I would let him put everything he wanted if he just confined it to the bedroom. :) So now I can create things for the rest of the house and not get bored with Nascar.

If you are into creating check out triond.com and for publishing things (books, artwork, music, calendars etc.) check out lulu.com these are both great websites.

I'm hoping to meet other people interested in the same things I'm interested it.

1 comment:

Mrst said...

Hi Peggy! Welcome to Blogger! I am looking forward to following your blog. I am not good at sewing but my mother used to make some beautiful quilts. She is a geologist now, so she spends more time with rocks than fabric and thread but I always enjoyed watching her quilt.