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.

Abandoned

If you remember, in this post, I mentioned about planting french marigold seeds, shallots, and more. This was my first try at gardening. I was extremely delighted when they sprouted and pushed open the green lovely, tiny leaves. I used to spend a lot of time admiring their beauty. My efforts did show results. My tomatoes bore fruits, shallots sprouted out into longs tender leaves and the marigolds opened in full bloom. Perfect!

See the tomatoes first.

I was thrilled when I saw this tiniest bud on the plant one early morning. I could hardly contain myself. Started clicking!

I kept checking every now and then as the buds grew.

Then one day I noticed that the bud sepals were separating and I could see yellow from beneath.

The flower started to take shape.

And it was in full bloom. LOVELY!

Not long after that, the lovely flowers crumpled up and tiny green tomatoes began to appear everywhere.

They grew.

And grew bit more than this.

Oh! I totally forgot about my marigolds.

They had buds all over.

Slowly the bright golden or orange lovelies bloomed.

A particularly beautiful lady looked like this.

They were all cheerful and happy. I was super happy.

But then something happened. We shifted our house.

And as I mentioned here, we are now staying at hubby's cousin's place. So do you think I took along my lovely plants? NO. I was forced to leave them back there :-( My heart broke. I was too much obsessed with my plants. I really don't know if they are still alive. The new tenants would have somehow got rid of them. But, deep in my heart, I hope very badly that they are still alive and are being taken care of.