Baby mobile - acquatic

Crocheting for babies are always fascinating. They bring life into a room like how a child does for its home.  Though just a toy sort, their smile or the bright cuddly eyes brings smile in our face too when we use a flower pattern or a pattern of a living thing. So does these cute fishes..............presenting you a simple mobile using fishes. Isn't that lovely? I simply love seeing them dance in the air.

Window & pop up heart greating card

Inspired by the works of Sonia (Cards, crafts & kids projects) I tried my hands on a different type of greeting card.

I have made some during my school days but they were simple ones with my paintings, cut into different shapes landed into the hands of near & dear ones on special occasions.

This one I made and gifted my dear Mr. M and he loved it a lot.

 

 

 This is how I made it

• marked a 20 (height) x 40 cm (widhth) and cut the chart.
• folded it in the middle to get equal portions on both sides
• drew a window and cut that using a paper cutter
• Placed this cut card (front portion) in the chart and drew along the lines in & out of window to make a frame
• using design craft punch, made & collected flower and leaf motifs and made some flowers
• cut some thin 23" strips from the chart to make the criss cross patterned grills on the window

attached the strips to the window by marking the points. and placed the frame above over it so that it will hide the ends of the strips and give a neat finish.

Drew two hearts like this to make the pop-up heart and cut along the lines.

stuck the centre portions of two hearts together and the last layers to each side of the card. Cut the alphabet at the start of our name and stuck it to the empty space in the centre of the heart.

decorated the front window with floral bunch

using glitter glue decorated it.

A Pleasant afternoon hour - Colour Pencil sketch -1

After the rest I was all set to lay my hands on the colour pencils which was lying unattended. Here I am to share with you the first one.....

Healthy Mixed Salad

Summer is on so as usual I try to cut down my time in kitchen by including some raw vegetables into the diet. It is good to control the appetite and healthy too.

Vegetables for salad to be washed thoroughly, peeled (wherever necesssary) and used. You can even blanch them for 5 minutes in hot salted water. Because while eating raw salads, we should be very careful about the parasites.

Salads with variety of dressings changes its taste & make it more interesting.

starting with sharing with you a simple mix veg salad

1. Grated beetroot - 2 tbsp
2. Shredded cabbage - 1 tbsp
3. Grated carrot - 1 tbsp
4. French beans - 2 tbsp
5. Lemon juice
6. Pepper
7. Salt to taste

1. Parboil the french beans after cutting it into 1" pieces
2. In a bowl, put all the above ingridients, parboiled french beans and mix well.

• You can crush some basil leaves to it before serving. (optional)
•  As per your preference you can alter the combinations by adding or reducing the mixing quantity.