Cooking

Red, soft and delicious Strawberries yum yum...I love fruits esp berries... all of them. With summer comes the berries in the market. I usually make smoothies with berries or eat them with my morning cereal. Last week, I tried something new...  I found a easy strawberry jam recipe ( for a small batch) on you tube... I gave it a try and result you can see in the picture. Here is the link to the recipe..  

And baked two batches of Biscotti for my tea time :)).When it comes to baking, I always use the recipe from Joy Of Baking...its really helpful for beginner like me. Here is the link for Biscotti

 
And I cannot end this post without sharing these two lovely pictures ...flowers and plants are growing well this summer...lovely colors..isn't it?  

                                            Have a Happy Day  Friends!

Bracelet Making

Hello friends ...hope you all are doing well. It has been a long time that I have posted here on this blog. Today I am sharing few clicks of bracelets I made last weekend. I have been collecting beads from quite some time now. Last week, I tried to make some pieces. I am showing the bracelets on this post, in my next post I am going to share the rest of them....here are the pics...

I love chunky beads and I have combined them with wooden colorful beads which I am going to post later...For this bracelet I have recycled the old bracelet ...just replaced the beads as you can see here

 you can see the spiral base for the bracelet...

and beading begin..

Use any pattern you like...and once you are bored simply change the beads....

here is another one...

Hope you like the post see you soon...take care

Warli Love

Dear friends...hope you all are doing well. I have become a very lazy blogger from last two months. I finally find a inspiration to paint a new tote bag. I got this canvas bag couple of weeks ago. I first thought, I will crochet some flowers and sew them on this bag for more spring looking tote. But after making few flowers that idea vanished from my mind. I decided to create an ethnic looking tote so I opened my color box and painted a very simple design with little bit of warli , some straight and slanted lines. Colorful beads were added in the end to give it a complete look.

 To know more about Warli Art go to this link here.....you will see some wonderful ideas to use beautiful folk art in various form.

I used acrylic colors for the project.

See you later..with another crafty idea!

This And That

"All things seem possible in May." The energy in the air is infectious... so much going around in the spring. Everything  start looking new and fresh in the spring season. Here are some clicks of the spring break with children few days back.....little fun cooking and finishing some unfinished projects. I loved the cooking part of the vacation....it was fun. With the help of you tube videos we made this colorful rice crispy.....  

...some donuts with sprinkles....not perfect but it was really fun making them.

and finishing this granny crochet pillow .... its DONE finally....

And now it is resting in a chair....waiting for me to sit and relax....take care friends and see you soon! 

A Quick Makeover

Hello there...did you have fun playing Holi ? I enjoyed a lot... esp playing colors with my little boy.. so good to see colored faces and tasting yummy treats. I hope you will enjoy this quick makeover too. Last year, I got these chappals from Gujarat and I love them.They are little worn out now so I thought why not give them a new look. I got this packet of wooden beads from a dollar tree.These are (250 pieces..it's great deal for a dollar) for making bracelets and necklaces. I used my glue gun  to stick them on chappals. And in no time my old chappals have a new look again.

 I picked these two... rest I will use for other project I am working on..and will share that one soon.

See you later

Big Paper Flowers

I can't believe, I am writing my first post for the March ...its march already... huh. Time is flying for sure.Well last week was the sick week for me. I spend most of my time in bed....cough, cold... a gift from change of weather, I guess. Good that its over now....so today went in cleaning, purging and organizing kids bed room. But I did get some time to make these big flowers for their bedroom. I thought its nice for a change... its more spring like. I used construction paper,doily, an old map and some stick from backyard. It was a easy project...I think its lovely and happy looking. Kids were excited looking these big flowers. Here are some pictures I took for you to see... 

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