Birthday Name Plate - Foam Sheet Craft !

Little girl turned 3 recently. I asked her what theme she'd like for her birthday expecting her to say 'Hello Kitty' or ''All pink' or 'Winnie the Pooh'.But then she surprised me by telling 'Pocoyo'.The shops here seemed to be filled with decorations for Hello Kitty and 'Princess Birthday' theme for girls and 'Cars' for boys.So this is a name plate that I made out of Foam sheet for her B'day.I initially planned to make it out of

cardboard and chart,but I found lots of foam sheets on sale in a shop so decided to make it with them instead.Honestly they came out very neatly that I was glad that I had decided to go with Foam sheet :)

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Oil Painting - Girls collecting flowers

This is an oil painting that I've wanted to do for a long time.The original is a poster that many of you would've seen.I bought it before years in Chennai.The original painting has a kind of dreamy,mystical background and yes definitely more professional and beautiful.This is my first attempt at painting reflections and I'm not exactly satisfied with the outcome :)Hope one day I could paint as beautifully as the original artist :)

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Hello Kitty - Amigurumi

I'm a big fan of Hello Kitty and I guess there would be very few ppl who don't like them. I've also noticed that more than kids grown ups love them a lot:) I made this for a very good friend who likes them a lot.Hope she likes it  :)

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Glass jar Craft - Recycling craft

I've been wanting to do glass painting for quite sometime and have collected a couple of glass jars. But I still haven't found any special paints for glass painting in the shops here.Those that I found online were pricey too,guess I'll have to wait for my next trip to India to buy them.Meanwhile I had some fabric paint lying around,so one rainy afternoon little girl and I decided to make something out of it to fight boredom. I just stuck two glass jars with their mouths together and did some simple designs on it ( scribbling actually :)).Then  Little girl stuck some stones on it with double sided tape :)

It looked pretty with sunlight filtering through it..

The Bottom of the jar

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Pom Pom Flowers

Pom Poms , guess most of us would have memories of making this as kids.I still remember when I was taught to make this in school, we kids went crazy making this all the time in different colours and sizes. These pom poms are made using forks of different sizes and are hence hassle free.You don't need to cut cardboard pieces to make them:)

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This is how they look after they are trimmed.

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I tied each of them to a small twig.

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Sketch Pen Birdhouse - Recycling Craft & A Makeover !

I had been concentrating on  my cooking blog and had totally neglected my poor craft blog.Neither did I like the name nor the appearance of it,so decided to give it a face lift today :) Collected all my craft supplies to make a colorful background ,found that I had so much that I had been accumulating over the past few years :)As for the name,it's easy to guess :) Was teaching my daughter to play Rock-Paper-Scissors,when I suddenly felt that Hook-Paper-Scissors sounds definitely more interesting than my previous title 'Get Crafting'.

Coming to today's post,I'm a person who can't simply throw away things unless I know that I can't make anything else out of them.Hubby feels that I have some problem with discarding things :) I have a huge carton full of things that I intend to recycle,hopefully ! Little Girl loves coloring and scribbling. It was like she suddenly took an interest to coloring and scribbling when she just crossed her first birthday and yes my beige color Sofa is full of marks now :( So we bought this big bucket of sketch pens so that it'll be easier to clean up and remove the marks.Now she's lost interest in coloring and I was left with a bucket of used Sketch pens.Seriously I couldn't get myself to throw those little colorful sticks in the bin :( So kept stocking them up until I came up with this simple idea.

 It's very simple to make .I just used an old face cream container,some cardboard and a double sided sellotape apart from the sketch pens.

 I used an old unused marker and the lid of an old box to connect both the parts of the bird house.

I wanted to make a small bird (something that resembled a bird actually :)) for the birdhouse.Guess that's easy to figure out.It's the box found in Kinder Joy Chocolate.Little girl loves it and sometimes I give in and get her one.She collects the toys inside while I collect the boxes.I just glued a pair of eyes and a straw to it :)

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Winnie the Pooh Series - Crocheted Piglet !

Little girl is a big fan of Winnie the pooh and its friends,so am I .I actually started with crocheting Winnie the Pooh,but once when i was done with the ears and the hands I ran out of yarn.On checking at the store I couldn't find the exact color or brand .I was kind of stuck,when little girl had one look at my yarn basket, pulled pink out and told me 'Piglet' :) Was browsing the web for good material for stuffing the doll when I read somewhere that old fabrics or rags make great stuffing.I'm a person who doesn't like wasting things and I try to recycle things as much as I can.And my good old unused dresses are all turning into stuffing now :)