Staying creative!

My grandfather's shelf

This antique piece of furniture belonged to my grandfather. This shelf used to rest on his desk and contained all his tax and work related text books. When my grandfather passed away, my father wanted to keep it just the same way and did not let us touch any of the books. My father was very sentimental about the books and it remained that way for almost 2.5 decades. Then one day, he moved on - don't know how and decided to discard this shelf. The next time I went to my parent's place this shelf was empty and dumped under the bed. How happy I was to see it - I got this to my Bangalore home and it sits pretty in my living room now :-)

Adorned with wooden step box with hand painted ceramic drawers, which I am in love with. Isn't it a fairly new thing doing its rounds. I doubt if it is associated with any state or any particular art, but they are totally gorgeous. The glass jar is filled with shells I got from Ramehswaram and the cute car, which I could not resist buying when I went to some gift shop to buy a birthday gift for a small boy. And of course - books, some read, some waiting to be read.

Linking it to 
'Show and Tell Friday' @ My Romantic Home
'Home Sweet Home' @ The Charm of Home
'Weekend Wrap Up' @ Colours Dekor

Petals that pep you up

Easiest and cheapest way to add beauty to your decor - Flowers :-)

My recent pick from Dakshinchitra, Chennai

Linking this to Weekend Wrap Up @ Colours Dekor

Painted bottles

I have this thing for glass bottles and tins. I never feel like throwing them away. I had saved from beverage bottles for long and didn't think of doing anything more than that until I saw this.

I decided to give them a break :P , took them out, got rid of all the labels, dried them up, poured some acrylic paint, and went shake shake shake!! Voila, see what I got!!

I have two more bottles left, plan to use some pastel colours. I did not have the patience to wait till I get new colours from the store to paint these, so used the colours I already had. I plan to add some images around the bottle, decoupage or glass paint.. Any suggestions :-)

Pour it, shake it and see what you get =)

So simple, isn't it, yet so nice..

Awards

I am giving my first award to VK from Dish-yumm!!!

This simple award is exclusively designed for VK. Hope you like it :-)

Award!! Yoohoo!!

VK from Dish-yumm!!! gave me this award, my first ever :).(Yippeee!!!) Thank you soo much VK :) I did not paste the recipe one, as no recipes in this blog, may be in future :)

Unfortunately I do not have 15 blogger friends to pass it on :( I guess I will save it for later..

Handpainted Ash Catcher

I went to Eka recently and saw some painted ash catchers and that is my inspiration for this ..

Linking to Weekend Wrap up of Colours Dekor