Random updates

I guess to put it mildly its been a while that I blogged.
While I was'nt blogging I was busy with multiple things. I made a trip to Atlanta for a professional training and it was kind of a big deal...when I say big deal I mean its was the FIRST time I was away from home all on my own. Yuppie there I said it...never before have o been on my own. I have been traveling alone since a very early age but always ended up living in a home...weather mine or some body I know. Never lived alone even for a short while. And hence going alone ...living at a hotel all by myself ...all this for 5 days was quite an achievement in my books.
After the training I have been very busy with the office work. Shortly after that Enn went for a 5 day vacation without me :( .. with his boy gang. He asked me before going and I said feel free go ahead have fun....but when he went away it was kind of lonely. But my very good friend P kept me good company. In fact I stayed at her place most of the days.
Then we were visited by my brother in law for week and we had a lot of fun together. We did a bit of traveling around. Well the traveling part deserves a post of its own...and I don't trust myself weather I will post it or not. So in interest of blogging I will go ahead and upload some of my pottery stuff that I made recently.

I am really glad how the casserole turned out. In fact with the casserole I had a proud moment...when I first saw it, I thought that my instructor made it....only later to realize that it was made by me....after the glaze firing I really did not recognize it. ohhh I look fwd to baking food in it and flaunt it :)

Also I got myself a new toy...its the Droid Incredible ,finally I said good bye to my crappy phone and got this fancy thingi. This post was created on my phone, and all the pictures in this post are also captured by it. But I had some error posting to blogger using my phone because of the post size. Let's see in future I will experiment with smaller size posts. I think mobile blogging will be a new world...:)

Some pencil drawings

A few days back I got myself this awesome leather journal (in a great deal!) And in it I decided, I will be practicing pencil drawings. I love colors and the excitement of the process of coloring often distracts me and I don't do drawing patiently. So this is kind of a patience lesson for me. To me all these are screaming "Color me...!!!" but the wise me says -" Wait for some time, practice some more and continue to practice, everything will be eventually colorful. "

Life was like a box of chocolates - Photo illustration

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
A beautiful quote from one of my favorite movie, Forrest Gump.

Of course this is not what this illustration really says.I was just playing around in paint brush, and did this.
In my defense, Enn was an equal participant in finishing this box of yummy truffles.

Awesome commercials

Aww I am in awe these uber cute commercials.
Both these TV commercials are for Amazon Kindle...and whenever these come , I literally stop what I am doing, and stand in front of the TV and sing and dance like a little girl.
I absolutely love the songs featured in both of them.

Flower punch - five uses

I only own one punch,~ The Flower punch~
And every now and then I try to find different ways to use it.
I think the charm of a five petal flower is absolutely splendid. Its also very special to me because all my life I have doodled two things, one is hearts and another is five petal flower.
And with no further delay I shall present the uses:

1. Branch of Paper Cherry Blossom.
This was the original post that was my inspiration, and triggered the purchase of the floral punch -How to Make a Branch of Paper Cherry Blossoms
Of course these flowers look nothing like cherry blossom, but still the idea of pink flowers on a branch is pretty.
2. In mix media art.
There can be countless ways to use these flowers in mix media art world. Following is just one of my interpretations.
This tree I made out of junk mail. (I also posted this in the past as a thing a day project in Feb)
Preparing an abstract background, and pasting these floral cut outs to form any shape. Like this tree, there can be a coffee mug, or a heart or .... the possibilities are numerous.

3. Little birds.
These birds are versatile, and can say anything (what ever you want them too). These can be on a birthday card, note book cover, letter.
With the flower punch they arepretty easy to make.

Carefully make snips in the line of the petal.With a drop of glue paste them on desired surface.
Give them eyes, feet, some personality.
Give them words...lil birdies have the power to say things that you cannot say.












4. Floral garland.
These garlands can fill life where ever they are placed.



5. Seal the envelop.

Take a little snip of clear tape, roll it like a pipe so that its sticky at both ends. Stick one end on the flower and another to seal the envelop.

Taaa daa....hope you liked it......!!!!!!!!!

On Totally Tutorials

Yeahh my tutorial - "How to Make Scrap Paper Bookmarks" was posted on Totally Tutorials.

Pottery update...

I made a lot of pieces in my clay studio class, but did not get a chance to upload them here.
There are from my initial classes, and hence wobbly and asymmetrical. Alot of these are are hand-built, because I wasn't confident enough to throw on wheel.

Color I love in the kitchen I want....

Can you believe kitchens in the shade of green...its like my dream come true.
Check out this post from Apartment Therapy...

Bright Green in the Kitchen

And while we are talking of colors, my next favorite is yellow...the mustard kind...
and check out these yellow kitchens....

All Kinds of Yellow Kitchens

A girl can only wish....

Thing a day 28

I cannot believe this is the last day of the month and brings "Thing a day" to an end. 

Congratulations to all the participants!! 

It was a fabulous experience. What I really liked about it was, for a change I was not complaining to my self, that "there's not enough time for art/creativity". 

I just tried to make something every day, and it was very satisfying. There were days I missed there were days I covered up for...and I am glad I could reach the end of it. 

My thing for today was after months and months of procrastination today I finally took out the recycling. It was a big deal...(really..!!)

And then with whatever limited time I had I made this drawing of mermaid, holding the frog. Clearly she plans to kiss him...!!!

I will color it..someday...sometime...

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