Natural beauty

I Love nature and makes it a point to catch all lovelies in my camera. I plan to create a collage with all those memories some day. Here are some of them.............. 

All these pictures were taken in Galle, Sri Lanka.

Elephants are in Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, Kegalle. Sri Lanka. It was a life time experience watching so many Elephants frolicking and bathing in a river.

This is Bentota Beach, again in Sri Lanka.

 

Above all are from Jim Corbett National Park, India.

This place is near Rameshwaram. We were standing on Pamban Bridge which is longest Sea bridge in India.

Thanks for stopping by and viewing.


Shalini

Baby Pillow Cases

 I recently made some pillow cases for my sister's son. Used cotton material to make them. To add designs painted alphabets on one, embroidered other and added only lace to third one. I'll let the pictures do rest for me (pictures were taken from a mobile camera, so not very quality pictures)...........

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year.

May new year bring cheer in your lives.

Shalini

(Image is taken from flowersOfIndia.net.)

Treasure from Trash

Here are my entries for lovely Shruti's July Artsy-Craftsy:

1. Flower from Plastic Bottle:

2.  A Sea horse from C's old T-shirt:

These I had already displayed on my blog but again listing here.

3. A Vase from PVC pipe:

4. A Ball cum Rattle from the same T-shirt:

None of them can be done by kids below 5yrs. But Flower from plastic bottle is suitable for kids aged 7-11 years.


Shalini

Summer Sewing

I enjoy stitching a lot and sincerely feel it rejuvenates me. But rarely I gets to do it. Generally I'm not able to squeeze out time from my daily schedules. Since past few days I'm seriously thinking of rescheduling my days and fit at least some sewing in to it.

Stitched two Frocks some time back for a little girl. One with layers and other a modified pillow dress pattern.

I gifted it to her and did not ask for pictures, so here are frocks without a model.

Hope to continue with regular sewing.



Shalini

Dressing up switch boards

Summer holidays are here and C is feeling hot. Generally he keeps busy doing stuff he loves (playing, watching TV) but sometimes gets bored for not being able to go out of house. It is soo hot here that I can not think of taking him out during day. Even evening breeze feels like coming out of some hot blower.

One such day we decided to do something crafty. I zeroed in on some thermocol craft since we had not done any thing this month (I submitted an old work). I wanted to do a mobile but could not cut proper shapes from thermocol which we had. C proposed a robot which can fly but i'm no tech geek so we settled down for a very simple robot.

Took a rectangular thermocol plate and cut one rectangle from it. Cut four other pieces from it for making hands and legs. Then this idea of transforming the swithboard popped up and we did a dry run by pasting all the pieces on the switch board and decided to keep it like that. Cut two more smaller pieces and made them its antenna. C painted them all by using black acrylic color mixed with white glue. Finally we pasted them on the board by using transparent tape. For mouth used a small piece from plate again. Eyes were made using thermocol balls. Here is the end result.

C is really happy about having a robot in the house. He proudly told his father and friend that buttons are making its body.

This is suitable for kids in the age group 7-10 years. Because it involves handling paper cutter and scissors.

I'm going to submit this to artsy-Craftsy. One day is left, gear up guys and submit what you have made.

Shalini

Handmade Hair Clips

For C's birthday I made few hair clips for giving away as return gifts. I used basic lock pins and added felt, white stones, lace trims and some craft stones. As usual, Fevicol worked as the glue.

I also reused brown paper bags and newspapers to make bags for keeping return gifts and candies. I added some colour by scribbling with colored pens and stamp markers.

Sorry for bad pic but I clicked only one to share.

So do you plan return gifts like I did or do you have some better ideas?



Shalini