Oh the mighty gifting season, here i come- part 2

Oh i know the season has passed.. we are into January..oh no February almost and i am still writing about my gifts last season! what do i do? cant get over it.. :D And the people who write their blog post the seasons are called LATE LATIFS! (as my mom calls it) ha ha..
so anyway, its never too late to share stuff to my wonderful people like you. so.. here we go..
Hats, scarves,hats and more hats.. thats what i did.
The first one, designed totally by yours truly ;) for my husband, for his birthday in December.

And the second ones, matching hats for our dear friend and his wife for Christmas. As you can see, my husband was very happy modelling for the hats.. ha ha.. do you think i can hire him permanently?

 

The next hat is for my another junior friend for her 3rd birthday!
sorry, couldnt make anyone pose for it.. :)

Ok, last but not least, matching design, a cowl and a scarf for our dearest friends who has always been there for us. A christmas gift.

Thats all.
Since we are talking about gifting here, Valentines day is coming! I made very pretty pretty gifts for the Loving day!
heres a sneak peek into it..

Loving it! dont you? you can buy it in my Etsy shop! click on the right side panel of my blog which says, 'my etsy shop' and it will take you there! Thanks, and have an awesome Jatangg day! ha ha ha.. :)

Oh the mighty gifting season, here i come!

Good morning all,

Just woke up with a foot of snow in my front yard, and oh.. what a beautiful sight it was! its just magical.. and it makes it more magical when Christmas is nearing.. I love the lights, snow and the merriment happening around, people meeting, laughing, gifting.. oh, i cannot describe my feeling.. :)

When it comes to gifting this season, i made a lot of gifts to different wonderful people.. come join me and have a look.. probably, i might have to split it up in different posts..
Ok, so the first one in the surface of my mind.
Its for a toddler, a baby boy, even though i have never seen, im sure he must be just ADORABLE! Arent babies adorable?
If he was here in this country, i would have made him a hat or a scarf, but you guys know about India, right? its hot in some places, no no, im not complaining! I love the summer in India as much as i love Winter in the US. Love for extreme weather i guess ;). ok, so, no hats, no baby blankets. so something to play with, not for just now, but for at least some years to come.. so i made this. A cute adorable toy car, for a cute adorable baby!

Isnt he cute? i even added some of the jingle bells while stuffing the car so that i would even be a rattle.. :)
He is now all gift wrapped and ready.. vroom vroommm.... :D

Happy Holidays! :)

Mud room makeover

Hey friends! :)
Today i want to share with you, a different type of project. Neither crochet, nor macrame. Just a pure home improvement project. Inspired by a pin posted in pinterest.

We have a typical small mud room, where we have coat hangers, shoe rack, a small corner seat to sit and wear the boots etc etc, details of it is not important. The important thing is, what did we do with the corner, and how did we go about it? :)
All we wanted to do is make it a featured wall, for the guests, for us. Oh my oh my, how it evolved, is really amazing! :)
Our mud room was of basic cream color. we wanted to make it a different color, to stand out. so it went from being cream- to blue - yes blue! i know! - to tan.

 The next step was to make the console table. Our whole concept was, since the room was too small to keep the console table and chair, we just wanted to paint the table, have a hanging lamp, and have some books.
So, for the console table, we sketched out a design. well, two different designs, by my husband and me. And after a whole lot of brain storming sessions, we decided upon the best side of the design, traced, mirrored, and traced it back on the wall. After 4-5 coats of white paint on it, our console table was ready.
For the book stand, as i said, there was not enough room for us to have the whole book to be placed. So, we got some old books for a nice vintagey touch, started cutting each and every page of the book, and the cover for upto one inch thickness. Yes, that's almost 300-400 pages! I had to remove the spine from the fatter books since i would be crazy cutting up 1000+ pages!
I was already thinking up of another project to do with the old pages that i cut up. Its now safe in my shelf for future use ;)
So, after that is done, we attached the new 1" thk book with a corner brackets available in a hardware store, bought a Buddha face, old lamp shade, and Voila! :) A super serene atmosphere for my guests and for our mud room! :)

oh, ya, forgot to mention, i used a old circular lampshade wire frame, wrapped it with cotton thread, and wrapped across the frame like cycle spokes, to create the 'aura' effect for Buddha!
So.. you like it?

Crochet Thoranam

Thoranam- Mini door curtain. Thats how i can explain or translate in english.

It is used a lot in India, usually for the front door, from one end of the door frame to another, traditionally decorated with mango leaves and flowers. The significance of it being the green mango leaves give a lot of positive vibrations and you are entering into a home filled with positive energy, hence Happiness.
Phew! With the technicality aside, now a days its becoming a more symbolic gesture, (of course its still followed during festivals), EVERY Indian door is decorated with different garlands made of bells, beads etc.. and...LACE! So thats where my project comes into picture.
While i was searching for some square crochet patterns, i stumbled across this and i thought it was be-au-ti-ful! Next thing i wanted to make was a thoranam with it. I added some tassels and colorful beads to it, to make it look more ethnic, there you go! A 'lacey' source of bringing happiness into the home.

And this is now hanging in my parent's home, on a beautiful wooden framed door! - A gift for my mother.  Of course she fell in love with it! :D

Crazy over minions!

Who hasn't gone crazy over those cute little yellow creatures! The moment i saw them in the movie, Despicable me, i wished there was more about the minions! And my prayers have been heard, a large dose of minions in the second part! All i did was "awwww" the entire movie. So, thats it. I want it. Now.

I went and searched in Google for minion patterns, there were many many many versions of them, since my knowledge of crochet was increasing day by day, i understood the basic construction of how its made, plus a little help from here and started doing one of my own little buddy. Let me show you how much fun he had!

You like me. dont you? :P







In the mean while..

I made a 'puppet version' of the minion for my 3 yr old nephew and he loved it! He just kept singing "bananaaaaa.... Potatonaaa..." He he he..

I have another nephew who is 7 years, and he is into "Iron man" phase. So i made a glove for him too.. a modified version of the iron man gloves by Tia Davis. Apparently, my sister had bought him a iron man mask, we would all know that he had a blast with the set!

Thats it for now, see you later with my next project! 

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! :)