Washi Tapes!

I mentioned about the Washi Tapes K got for me from Japan. I have not really tried doing anything, except for few strips on a gift. So yesterday I googled about washi, found few ideas and decided to personalise my phone :) So far, I have used only one of the four. Need to figure out what to do with the rest!

So colourful, right :)

It totally matches my phone colours :)

Next, it is going to be my laptop :) What are your ideas??

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Kitchen refashioned!

My kitchen has been needing makeover since I don't know when, that long. So like I mentioned earlier, I got  rid of all my plastic spice boxes and got myself lovely looking glass jars. I avoid buying plastic as well. All my fridge bottles are glass. Suddenly I see a rage of glass storage options in the market as well. It is fun shopping for Kitchen stuff, I am sure you will agree.

Don't they look cute? :) 

My favourite coloured mugs and K's favourite glass Latte mugs

Stumbled upon these cute chai glasses on a trip to market one day
Now, they are mine :)

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Glimpses of my home..

Hello Friends,

I am slowly getting back at regular blogging. I badly want to.

Latest from my abode is that, I have been re-decorating. Things which I have had for more that 1.5 years are finally on my wall now :P . Yeah, I am too lazy to call the carpenter/electrician and the sorts. I feel they disturb my routine (rather the routine-less routine!) :-)

So the happy news is that finally I have fixed my lampshades and few shelves. I am loving the new look of my home. Hope you all will too :)

My living room wall

My espresso cup in the shape of Vespa :)

This stand is from a crafts Mela. The Thanjavur Bommai is from Thanjavur

In love with light :)

In love with light :)

Sources:

The boxed shelves on the living room wall - Mother Earth
TV Cabinet - Mother Earth
Stand under Tanjore Painting - Fabindia
Folding Peacock Lamp - Dakshinchitra, Chennai
Lampshades - Fabindia
Knick Knacks - From all around

Hope you all like it. Suggestions welcome :)

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Blame Pinterest!

Blame Pinterest that I am not blogging regularly these days. I really really miss it and feel I have not been creatively productive at all!!

I have been busy and I even spent some quality time doing few things at home. I got rid of all my plastic spice dabbas and got myself lovely Yera jars :) Some new lampshades, some re-arrangement. In between all these, few super exciting weddings also, yeah work also keeps me busy! ;-)
It hasn't been really the same feeling as creating or making something, but I have been making it up with time on Pinterest! Now I have a really big DIY list on Pinterest, but haven't done even one :P

So last week, my husband got back from Tokyo. I had asked him only for one thing to get for me - yes! Washi Tapes!!! :) I am really excited and want to do something really nice with it. I am off to Kerala to say Hi to Monsoon and as soon as I am back, I am going to do something with the Washi tapes.

I wanna do lot of things, I just need more motivation, inspiration :)

Pinterest sometime just gives that, but I guess I need to make myself a real pin board, take all the prints from Pinterest and pin them on! Then may be I will do it :D
My friend never encourages me to talk about Pinterest to people who do not know about it. She is possessive about Pinterest and wants to keep it only to people who 'suit' Pinterest. I agree you need certain taste and creative inclination to survive on Pinterest. You need to be brave about your choices and tastes and also about people knowing it. It is definitely not for fakers!! You need to be yourself. It is for us, not them! :)

Christmas trees on a string

I have been pinned to Pinterest and I don't regret, as it serves as a huge motivation! :)

This Christmas, I really wanted to buy a tree and do up the whole house, but could not go till the market to buy it and now I feel it is too late. I wanted it to be all up by Dec 1st itself. When you miss to do some thing on time, you lose the enthusiasm to do it at all, right?

So I just took out whatever little Christmas-y things I have and arranged it. But I felt really bad about not having the tree. So I decided to do something, some little thing to prep the Santa in me up ;-)

I decided to make lil Christmas trees on a string. I cut out a template from a thick magazine cover. I used an old invitation card to cut out the rest. I painted them with acrylic paint, tied them to a string and voila! It is ready. (Ignore the brassy wreath :P) Also excuse for the bad pictures :(

I don't know why they look blue! :)

DIY Ladybug Fridge Magnet

I have been away for a long time.. The creative me has been hibernating. Thanks to Pinterest, I am back and hopefully will be active :)

So I kick started all the creativity back again with a fridge magnet made of M-seal. Easy peasy! I know.. :) It does not look all that great, but this is my very first attempt, I shall get better next time :)

Made with M-seal, painted with acrylic colours and fixed a magnet with the help of double sided tape.
(Need to know if I can buy just magnets to fix behind these anywhere in Bangalore. If any of you know, please share. Thanks)

Shri Krishna Jayanthi

I have been away from the blogosphere. Some work, some travel, some family time, it is good to be back :) Hope you all are doing great.

It was Sri Krishna Jayanthi / Gokulashtami / Ashtami Rohini yesterday. I love all festivals obviously for the food and fun, but what is so special about this festival is the cute little Krishna feet my mother draws. She draws it with Kolam (Rice Paste) from the entrance of the house till the Pooja room, in a way that signifies Krishna's entrance to our home. 

Usually, very conveniently I just go to my mother's place for all the festivals which involve lot of work :P, but this time I was at home and decided to celebrate it. Though it was a short notice (I got to know only in the morning about it), I managed to make neyyappams and guess what, I drew Krishna's little feet. :-)

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