Rangoli - the art of India

I was browsing thru the Rangoli designs on the internet and chanced upon this design which left me speechless. Imagining the effort and time that went into the process, I was further amazed.
Cant resist posting it here:

Image Source : https://artandlifeofficial.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/rangoli/

Cooking

It's the winter time around and we usually like to have some snacks in the evening. I tried my hand on various dishes. Here are a few:

Vegetable Cutlets

Manchurian

Fish Cutlets

Chicken manchurian

Microwave cake with Oreo biscuits

Chicken popcorn

Gobi Manchurian

sajja boorelu

ragi boorelu

Spinach corn chips

Salt and Spicy chips

Khichdi

Bread upma

Pulagam

Bobbatlu

Kobbari Undalu

Kova

Party Decoration - Tissue paper Pom Pom Flowers

We decided to celebrate DS's birthday party just one day before and I am hardly left with time to go buy decoration items amidst all the dinner arrangements and packing return gifts. Hence I decided on using the scrap items for decoration which I already had lying waste for years. Kept the decoration very simple with a few ribbons and photo frames. However I felt the center portion was very empty and filled it up using these tissue paper pom pom flowers. Usually these pom pom flowers may be used as a hanging centerpieces but I just used half part of it and stuck to the wall to complete the decoration.
Here's the picture:

Top Makeover for a photo session

We were planning for a photo session at GlamourShots and I picked up three attires for all three of us.  I wanted to have the matching attires for each one of us. DH and DS have their traditional attires that exactly match together. I do not have anything that even nearly matches theirs. I remember I had an old top which I havent used for years but saved it just because I like it very much. It occured to me that I can makeover that top to match with that of DH and DS's. I just had a few hours before the photo session and I managed to embroider the top with the color that goes well. The final photo came out wonderful.

Before 

After

Dress Makeover

My DS had a white kurta which he wore a no.of times and I wanted to have something new for him but couldnt manage to get one . So I decided on a makeover of the old one for a new look. I embroidered the kurta at random places while picking up the Indian flag colors to appear patriotic.

Before

After
Jai Hind

Rangoli

Cradle Decoration

Here's our kiddo at his first month during the cradle ceremony. Decorated the swing with tissue paper flowers.

Lovely Hearts

Easy to make origami heart : It's so simple that it can be made in 2 minutes with just a few folds. 

It can be used to store small items.

Since that I got into the line of making hearts, I happened to collect few other heart shaped goodies and I can't help myself from posting them here

Edible hearts:

Ahh !! This is in the memory of my dearest friend

Hard bolied eggs :

Anna shares here, the process of preparing this heart shaped egg

Another idea for a flower shaped boiled eggs : 

Watermelon hearts :

 

Rice Kispy Treat :

The recipe is shared here : http://www.myjuicecup.com/edible-hearts/

I wish I would prepare all these on a special day for my valentine.

14 Lovely Heart shapes shared : http://villageofjoy.com/14-lovely-hearts-for-st-valentines-day-pictures/

Cartoonist's Column - 4

The Aqua Girl

Cartoonist's Column - 3

The Hula Dancer

Cartoonist's Column - 2

Doggie Language !

Cartoonist's Column - 1

Howdy !!

Featured Crafts #3

Great friends win great gifts. I believe, birthday is a special day to show one how much we love them, though on  normal busy days, we may not find time to greet them atleast. I wanted to gift something very special which he would love and which he cant get from anyone else and that lead to this craft preparation.

The paper cutting involved much effort as the picture size I chose is small and the detail included is very high that I had to be very careful and concentrated while cutting the paper and it took a great amount of time to finish. And for framing I used thermacol sheet which is covered with white paper. And finally I felt all my efforts were worth spending as he liked the present. 

Featured Crafts #2

Link to this post : http://www.jubilant-jyo.blogspot.com/2010/07/soap-flowers.html

Featured Crafts #1

Rangoli

Rangoli done on the Inauguration day of our company's new campus

Progress of my 3D Clay Painting