Solar system project....

Hello dear Mumma's.... Hope you are all doing well... Today I am going to share a school project with you all. Now a days school projects are of very important part of our kid's s curriculum. Every second day we got a new assignment from the school that you have to make this and you have to make that... And these projects were so complicated and difficult that by any how they can't be done by the kids alone... So at last these projects are one more challenge for their Mumma's...
Today I am writing this blog that how I make this 3d solar system project using recycled materials....

Materials used...
Old newspapers
Cardboard
Used tissue paper
Masking tape
Colours
White glue
Glue gun
Steps
-For making this project I have to make sun, and 8planets. Our solar system consists of sun and 8 planets. Now a days pluto is not considered as a planet... So only 8 planets.
- for making the sun and planets I used old newspaper. I make newspaper balls in increasing order of the size of the planets and sun...
-Then wrapped each ball with masking tape so that the shape and size remains firm.
-Then make a mixture of white glue and water in the ratio of 1:1.
-Wrap tissue paper around each ball with water and glue mixture..
-Let the balls dry.
-Take a rectangular piece of cardboard and paint is with blue and black color to make the sky.
-Afterthat with white paint mark the orbits for each planets.
- After the  paper balls dried paint them in different colors like Mars in red, earth in blue and green, jupiter as yellow, sun as yellowish orange like that.
-Then cut a ring for saturn using any thick paper... I used empty surf packet. Color it in yellow and with the help of glue gun attach it around the saturn.

-After coloring of the planets and sun Place them sometime for drying of the colors..
-When everything is dried then using a glue gun place the sun first and then place the planets according to their distance from the sun like mercury first then venus, earth, Mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune.
- write the names of the planets on small paper and stick them near the planets.
-Using white paint make small small dots all around the planets and sun....
- Finally the project is finished...

Monkey theme birthday decor

Hello friends..... How are you all.... Doing good..... Today I am going to share a very special part of my life with you all....
29th November 2016.....the best day of my life... It's important because on 29th November I got my life means my sweet little bundle of joy my baby....
Every day I thank God for the wonderful blessing he has bestowed upon us..  For me he is simply God gift....
As soon as he entered in my life he totally changed my world.. more precisely he totally changed me. He taught me how to love,how to love myself,  how to live life and enjoy it to its fullest... how to be happy on small small things....
In our life he is  the bright sunshine and the calm moonlight..... In short he is our life... Our heart beat.... Mumma's eye candy and papa's life line....
On 29 th November 2017 he completed his first year.... On his first birthday I try to organize a monkey theme party... Monkey theme because his very first favorite rhyme is"5 little monkeys " so I decided to go with monkey theme. I try to craft little little things related to my theme. Here I am sharing some of the pics of decoration for you all...

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Thank you....
Shilpi

Foyer wall decor

A big hello to all my friends and readers. In this blog I am going to share my foyer wall decor with you all.

Foyer means the entrance hall or area of a flat or house. When someone comes to our home foyer is the first area which comes to their notice. Foyer is the first place of our home from where we can make a style statement for our home and makes our home different from the next house.
I feel whatever the first impression anyone carries of your home,Make it lasts forever in their mind so why not give a beautiful memory of your home starting from the entrance only.

There are so many different ways to add charm and beauty to your entrance. We can decorate the foyer with some of our favorite collectibles or paintings or  your family photos etc etc. The list is long enough... But always try to give a personal touch to your home because your home always gives a reflection of your personality.....

I decorated my foyer wall with some of my Handpainted canvases.... This way i can give a personal touch to my entrance.
In addition to the Handpainted canvases I put a cat sculpture made up of rope and clay. I hang few lamps from the ceiling in a accending order of length... These lamps add a lot of drama to my foyer wall decor and take the decor to a next level.

I used to change my home decor frequently that doesn't mean that I always bought new new things every time. I am just changing their places or add something new with old ones so this way I try to give a fresh look to my home every time. But for now this is my foyer wall decor....
I hope you like my decor style...

My new Warli painting... Tree of happiness

Once again a warm welcome to my blog... Today I am going to take special note on my new painting which is basically a warli painting... 

From childhood only I am very much fascinated towards all types Indian art form like warli, madhubani, kalamkari, gond, pattachitra etc etc and I hope to try my hands on each one day but for now I tried warli painting...

Warli painting  is a style of tribal art mostly created by the Adivasis from the North sahyadri range in India. Warli art is mostly centered around mother nature and all forms of nature elements are mostly depicted in warli painting.

I named my painting as tree of happiness

 because it's the tree only around which happiness is in the air. Everyone is singing, swinging, dancing, dancing, laughing and enjoying life which we mostly lost in our busy life schedules now a days. So in this painting I try to pay attention to most beautiful asset of life i. e happiness.... 

For now this is time to hang the painting in one my beautiful corner of my home and enjoy the tree of happiness. 

Hath pakha

Haath pakha....

Being a bong I am very much fond with the term  haath pakha. It's one of our traditional symbol. Whenever u visit any bong's house you will definitely find some hath pakha.... Now a days mostly in their store rooms.

Hath pakha is mainly a palm leaf hand  fan which is used mostly during summer time. It's not only confined to summer time .... It is also an important part of our each and every celebration from marriage to Annoprashan, from pujo to jamai sashti. It's an important part of our baron dala means arti thali.

From childhood only I am very much crazy about hath pakha and have lots of thakuma dida memories related to hath pakha. But it's very sad that now a days kids don't know about all these charms of life. Sometimes I feel very bad about our present robotic lifestyle. Leave this topic here only otherwise my hath pakha will become upset.
Now a days my craziness for hath pakha increased a number of times because it will help me to decorate my home with little bit traditional touch. Here I want to say one thing I love decorating and redecorating my home again and again and every time I feel happiness from within. Through out the year the decorating redecorating cycle is going on.
Coming back to the topic hath pakha. Getting an authentic hath pakha in Dubai is just next to impossible. I searched a couple of shops then one night I thought why not I vl make a hath pakha with cardboard.... Because I only need them for decoration.
Then I made this hath pakha, decorated with red  fabric to give a authentic touch as real hath pakha also have red, green or yellow coloured fabric frill border. Then painted a pair of fish.... I love fish.... Whether it is in curry or in paintings....and my hath pakha is ready. Now it's time to  hang it....

Open book card

Open book card is an innovative way of making greeting card for our loved one.....  I made this card for mother's day considering the fact that the whole book of a child's life starting from the first page is only because of mother.  By this card we can express our love and gratitude towards our mother.

I decorated the card with lots of handmade paper flowers, leaves,  butterflies, pearls etc etc.  In the open page of the book there are space for writing a sweet note for your mother with lots of love and affection.  For making the book to stand I make use of easel card.

So on this mother's day... Make this card and write a sweet note for your mummy and in the morning gift the card with a cup of hot tea to your mummy and hug her tightly.  Am sure your mumma will be very happy......  Love your mumma...
Some closer view of my card...

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House of love

House of love......... One dream
Hi everyone. Myself shilpi.... Very new member in this platform who is taking baby steps for writing a blog. I am very passionate about crafting and I always try to make something out of waste. One day I was unpacking the Red label tea leaves packet and  ready to throw the empty packet in the dustbin suddenly one thought strike in my mind and through out the whole day the thought of transforming  the tea packet in some beautiful craft kept running in my mind.  In the evening when m taking my tea in balcony and thinking of my husband then I thought why not I make some sort of greeting card cum album with this empty tea packet to express ones feeling with lots of lots and pictures . Quickly I finish my tea and start my crafting and make this beautiful house shaped greeting card cum album for our loved one and so I named it house of love.
I make the base of the house with this tea packet. Then make roof with chart paper. Decorate with colourful paper, paper flowers,  love birds.  Inside the card lots of s
Small love notes are there. Inside the house I make a waterfall type card arrangement on which we can write sweet notes for our special person. There is also space for a picture to enhance the beauty of this card.  Thus I make my house of love. Hope you all will going to love it.

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