Some Upgrades

Lately we did some upgrades in the house. We installed curtains, which we got from India, when we went there for Diwali in Oct/Nov-08...yeah It took me 4 months to install it. Procrastination is not just my hobby, but its one of my major talents. These curtains are in the living room, they are my MIL's (mother in law) choice, I luved them:

These are in our bedroom, the orange color shines amazingly in the sunlight, the whole room gets an orange glow...My husband Enn chose them. Luv his choice:

And these are in our guest bed room. These are my choice :)

Also on one of our walls, we have these lovely piece of embroidery, which is from Rajsathan(India). I absolutely love its colours, and figures and the whole feel...

We also got this rug from IKEA (absolutely love it..!!!)...again its the color that invited me. It just pops in the creme backround of our home.

Alright so these were some upgrades which we did recently and we were planning them from a long time. And well should have done it loong back. But everything comes with a plan of its own, it happens when it has to.

Collage

Well let's face it, I am not a good painter, but...that does not stop me from decorating my home...so I painted these small abstracts(4x6), and put them in small frames and arranged them collectively on our living room's wall.
Worked out-not bad....

yeah, they r skewed a bit...

Catz

I came across these cats, and luved them...I thought I'd make them for Enn as a valentine's gift...but...yeh...

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Salt Dough

Salt dough is an nice medium to make some sturdy, and not so delicate pieces.
Its recepie and method is pretty straight fwd.

According to a user of Orkut Community- crafts out of scraps 's forum -
2 parts flour,
1 part salt,
1 tsp oil
water as reqd..
knead for 15 mins to make a pliable and flexible dough..
mould it, shape it, bake it and paint it with any colours of ur choice- fabric, acrylic, poster, water..

Following are few of my experiments on it:

Glass Painting

I loove to paint glass...the transparent glass effect with color is simply splendid.
I got the following bottle/vase/ I don't know what to call it from Crate&Barrel, its liek only 3 inches, & was soo cute cud not resist it, and jsut made red flowers on it. BTW 5 petal flowers-that's all I can draw.I don't think this photo does it justice, but well...

Also I found these small white vase @ Kroger lying in a corner for $1, so I piked them up and pumped them a little.

Random Paintings

These were some more paintings that I had done in the past.
They are still trying to find a wall in my home.

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The Chair

This is my version of the famous Chair - by Van Gogh. Clearly it is just an attempt.
Van Gogh, mentions that some days the thing of inspiration can be just a chair.

Originally this chair also had a pipe, which was later added by the artist, but umm I am satisfied with what I have done so far.

Cherries on canvas

This was my first shot at canvas, and I thoroughly enjoyed the process. The ease of painting on this surface was splendid.
Though now I have gifted this to a friend E, it was in return of her teaching me knitting.
I thought I have ages to perfect knitting, but a painting will be a quick return gift.

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More note books...

I absolutely love making note-books, the very use of this craft makes it even more exiting. Its lke you are creating a media to record your life. Well not necessary you will user it to record your life's journals, but still...in the world of e-mails and blogs, I still love writing with an ink pen in a beautiful note book.

Some Play dough

Few days back was randomly having fum with play-dough.And made a couple of pretty flowers. Of course it was play dough, this means those flowers are no more :(