Butterflies all around

I have been away for a long while from Blogland. I was a bit busy (my usual excuse!). I had my family visiting, travelling down to Kerala, and some very tiring days. Finally I am back on track now. Meanwhile, in the few moments I could make fruitful, I made some things.

A butterfly mobile had been on mind since years. But I never actually made one until two weeks back. Take a look at it.

It may not be a very beautiful work of art, I agree. But I am very pleased with my effort. I used all scrap and coloured packaging papers I could find and made it. The effort to cut out each butterfly with the details was painful, but fruitful in the end :-) Then I wished, if I had a cricut cutter.

It didn't take me very long to finish this mobile. It was pretty quick and easy, apart from the cutting part :-D

Now it is hung up right in our living room and is beautiful when it turns and twists around!

Rippling Away

My first attempt at a ripple project.

Does it look nice?

Its a baby wrap or shawl.

I loved the way it turned out.

Chose the colours and started on it right away.

I am really thrilled by the end result. Now, I have to weave in the loose yarn at the ends.

More stuff!

Want to see what I have been upto all these days?

Well, lets start :-)

A set of two coasters for coffee time. Bright yellow varigated yarn.

Again another set of four coasters. Tea-time coasters! Love the thickness and sturdiness of the yarn.

Now how do you like this one. It is a complete coffee time coaster and placemat set. Love the colour.

A long, white, lovely scarf.

And there is one more type of item I did. Three crochet head bands.

Long time...

It's been a long while since I have been here. Well, I was around here only, but had not transferred the pics and kept postponing it till today. And am here today finally.

I completed a small granny square blanket. It is a small baby wrap. I fell in love with the colours and started making this small blanket.

Moving on to my plants, I have some lovelies coming up and lots of colours around.

Happy Weekend to all of you! :-)

Christmas Crafting

This year I had my first Christmas tree of my life and I am way too excited about it. :-)

Hubby was too good enough to buy me a small Christmas tree and a star. He hung the star in the front of the house. I was entrusted with decorating the tree. One day one, I tied some red satin ribbons onto it.

Next I made some pom-poms and hung it all around.

Then I cut out a small star and hung it.

Then wound some decorative gift paper (cut out in a string) around the tree.

Laid some small gift at the base of the tree.

And my tree was ready. All set for Christmas. :-)

Hooky Weekend

This weekend seemed pretty short and not that a great one. Reason - Hubby was working on Saturday also. So Saturday was a lazy day for me. But I was able to start up on a little bit of crochet again. Want to see what I have been doing?

I am planning to make a small square blanket or wrap out of these blue and white granny squares. I have been successful enough in making 9 granny squares through yesterday and today. It was really wonderful to have begun hooking again. But I have lost that speed I had. Now I am taking longer to hook up those grannies. Hopefully I will gain momentum over the coming days.

Excuse me for these grainy pics. I was too lazy to take out the camera and take the photos of my work. So just took it on my cellphone camera.

And, this is how my evenings look. Lovely right?

Colourful

It has been a long while since I really did anything crafty, and hence no updates here. So what is it that I am going to post here. Nothing, but some small colourful things in my everyday life. The lovely evenings...
My tomato plant bearing its fruits...
Flowers...



A friend I found among the pots....

But she was already dead. I loved her deep purple wings and yellow head. I have her on my shelf though the boys have asked me to throw her away. I could not bring my mind to throwing her away. Lovely things, however small, add lot of colours to our lives.