My macrame 'Tree of life'

Hey all,
I am now learning to do macrame, and wanted to do something different than usual pot holders and bracelets. So, i decided to do a tree. The square knots (the one in green and green) are my FAV and don't mind doing it forever!
With the help of my husband, i was able to twist and hold the branches in place, used two colors of jute yarn for the 'leaf' design. I wanted to use the white cotton thread and make some flowers, but it looked too busy with all the knots.. so just came up with plain straight clean line design.
Hope you like it!

Chicks go Bollywood!

Hey, Good morning my dear readers, and a very early morning to me as i hear the silence in the air, somewhere a little cuckoo bird singing in a hope that the world would wake up listening to its sweet voice.. well, cuckoo bird, im up! :)
Talking about birds, there is a particular story i wanted to share with you. You might have seen a similar one in my previous posts, Just born, but, this one is about a bit adult ones, someone like my parents.
This one is about their undying love towards each other, a strong bond grown with them, Bollywood Style! ;)

 

My dad, my hero, epitome of simplicity, always wears a scarf or a piece of cloth around his head calling himself as 'Mannina maga', which means, son of the earth, basically posing himself as a peasant!





My mother, my inspiration, her vibrant personality shown everywhere, including her dressing! Loves jewellery, loves dressing up.




Hence begins their love story..

  

 While they continue with their romantic journey, its time i continue with my everyday life. See you guys! :) 

Tissue paper roll saves the day!

As i am in the phase of recycling/ re purpose, i am looking at everything around me for crafty projects. And this time,  it was, my poor old used up empty tissue rolls! 

Tissue rolls-cut-press-paint-compose-frame. 

The frame too is recycled. I cut off the middle portion of the shoe box, painted it with neutral color, stuck all my flowers and leaves to the sides of the frame.  

The only difficult task in it was to give maximum points of contact for the flowers to the frame. The more surface area of the flowers, the more strongly it would stick on the frame.  So had to play around during composition a bit. 

Hence, the tissue roll saved an artistic frame! :P

Rolling stone gathers no mass

But rolling paper does! and how!
Yup, Another repurpose/ recycled art.
Cut-fold-roll-Done!

Oh i wish it was so easy as i said.. the journey started with hunting magazines and that too, colorful ones with lot of pictures! After sorting all out, which took me almost 5-6 hrs, folding was yet another task. Deciding on which side to fold, sorting out the colors accordingly, i thought i was almost done, only rolling was left.

That's where i got stuck. Thats when i realized how messy the project was going to be with glue all over the place. Thats when i almost decided to just chuck the whole project.



Then a thought came over. A thought which had a chance of saving and giving a new meaning to my effort for the past days of folding and sorting.
The thought of making the project glue less!
Stapling--no, sewing--oh no, how about containing it? like in a frame?--may be.
frame.. wooden frames.. wire frames.. paper frames..Tissue roll frames! Oh yeah! 

Cut the tissue rolls into thin strips, and pack in the rolled paper so tight that it doesn't even think of peeping out. There you go.

Tissue paper rolls, saved the day, saved the art! :D

By the way, tissue paper roll, saved my another project too.. will write about it soon..
Until then, Happy rolling! :D

Its recycled eh?

Hello..As i mentioned in my earlier post, i LOVE recycling!
One day, i was just browsing, and i came upon something really amazing. Yarn made out of plastic bags! I had to try it! I keep all the grocery bags usually to throw the trash out, so naturally had a LOT of grocery bags. Learnt how to make plastic yarn, also learnt that its called PLARN, and got started with it. Plarn Doilies yet again!

We had an old picture frame, which looked antique, without a backing. That's when husband and me thought of making the project 100% recycled.

Oh yeah, my husband occasionally helps me in doing some stuff, like framing and putting it on the wall. ;)

So.., for the backing, we used one of the packing box sheet, covered with another contrasting color grocery bag! and voila! Recycled art! I love how the colors got distributed and created a design.