Didaz

Living Oprah..! ?

I came across this blog, yesterday when I was scanning television channels...and I guess the channel was CNBC.
The blog is : http://www.livingoprah.com
According to the writer :
"I am performing an experiment: for one year, I will live as Oprah advises on her television show, on her website and in the pages of her magazines. The tagline to her website is "Live Your Best Life" and I wonder, will I truly find bliss if I commit wholeheartedly to her lifestyle suggestions? Additionally, I'll be charting the cost of living as Oprah prescribes. Will the costs - financial, time spent, energy expended - be worth the result?"

Hmm quite an experiment! ....I have been trying to read it for a while now. Frankly I don't really have a opinion about this.

All I can say is once again... Hail to the creators of blogging world....

awards...yeahhh...!!!!!

I received these fabulous awards from Gloria.

And now I have to post 6 of my personal things that I love or love to do...
(which I will... :)

Thank u Gloria...I appreciate all these goodies\awards....

Julie and Julia

Two stories, two women, France, New York, recipes , love of food, cooking and blogging....
what more do you want.....!!!!!!

I loved it.It was a feel-good movie about self evolution by cooking and blogging about it. Which made it really fascinating for me.
It just showed how can you take control of your life by just doing what you love. And also showed the amazing power of blogging, and what a fabulous medium it is for a nobody to openly express their heart.
I am not much of a cook... and honestly there are days when I don't want to cook. Also there are days when I think I should get an award, just because we ate "home food" rather than a take out.
But I would not deny my romance with food and then there are days, when I try a new recipe and try out new ingredients and its gets interesting and the results are fabulous.
I am also planning to read the book, by Julie Powell on which the movie is based on.

But before that I should finish the stack of books that I have been collecting forever,
Oh well..!

Heart filling

So what happens when in the process of deep thinking you end up scribbling in windows paint brush....

he he he.... :)

Roses are red...

Lately I have been intrigued by hand made paper flowers.
And then I came across this fabulous tutorial from dozidesign.
It was soo tempting, I had to give it a try.

I did not have red paper. But what I had was a white paper (regular printing paper) and a red bingo marker.

So I ended up staining the paper on both sides, it took some time to dry up, and it was good to go. I remember I went to this garage sale of some factory, which was clearing up, and there I saw a bingo marker for the first time. And I was amazed, by its size. I asked the person selling it, how much...? and he said, just take it for free. Those were some samples which they never used. And I got a bunch of them. I just end up staining paper with it, making polka dots pattern or just having fun.

Tea Time

In my clay class, there was a project for making tea pot. Well I thought, if I have to throw it, throwing, three separate pieces which fit together... umm quite frankly is out of my reach.
So as my Instructor says... I opted for the respectable way of ceramic making - Handbuliding.!
Basically I just rolled out a slab of clay and molded it into the desired shape.
To join these pieces together, a mixture of vinegar and water is used. It acts like glue with clay.
It has a lot of technical faults...for instance, it does not pours neatly. Also the size is very very small. So basically its not really useful but I think its pretty to look at.
Also while glazing it, I tried to bring in the striped effect which of course was suggested by my instructor R.

Seasons....& Concerns

This is another painting on canvas I did a while back...
I was inspired from a image from I-stock Images.com.
I thought it was a beautiful idea...summing up the whole year from the perspective of a tree.

But slowly the picture might change...courtesy - Global Warming.
This is not me talking, this is what I have picked up from watching Discovery and National Geographic. My ideas here are very limited and are influenced by the shows I have viewed on these channels about pollution, rise in temperature, deforestation.

I have a very "end user" perspective about this, but still I will voice it.

Lately I suffer from this fear that we are all heading to our our last day...(which we are any way...but I am talking from a human species point of view..)

Every day when I am taking my shower, I feel...its a luxury and any minute now, the water with stop coming (I somehow manage my 20 min+ hot shower).

Any plastic bottle I see...I am worried, weather it will make to a recycling place...or a landfill. Its PLASTIC...it will remain FOREVER in the landfill. I immediately flip it and see does it has the little recycling triangle on it or not.

Recently (last week) I went around in my area, and found out about the Recycling center where I can go and recycle glass,plastic,metal. So I am taking my initial steps!

All this has caused a chaos in my mind and literally leaves me clueless...
I am trying itty-bitty right steps, but my mind is not at peace...

Kusudama Flowers...

I found this amazing tutorial at Folding Trees, and what pretty flowers...!!!
Also I thought this was an amazing way to recycle old magazine pages.
Though the one I used had relatively thick pages.

Another good idea while making these is to use paper clips...to hold the petal together when its joined with the glue and then, to hold the whole flower together, when those five petals are glued together.
Once the glue dries, the paper clips can be removed.

After a point it gets very addictive...!!

Pages from my note-book

As a kid when a new school year began, I use to have a notebook for each subject (like everybody else) and then I also use to have my personal "drawing notebook".
I thought may be I should start that again.
Its fun, its easy and it really makes me happy.
So I started with this lil 5.5*8.5 notebook....and I since then I have been doing random stuff.