Stone Art.

Greetings,
This weekend, I tried a new art that I have never done before. I painted some stones and decorated one of my walls in the veranda.
Here are some of the pictures.

I painted owls on the stones. I had thrown some green marble kind of stones in my pot. I used those for the leaves and I also stuck some stickers like flowers, birds and bees for some effect.
Below is a picture taken before adding the stickers, the picture looks quite plain.

I also painted, a simple flower vase, copied from Mary Engelbert's illustration and also a knitting mouse and Mrs. Title Mouse from Beatrix Potter.

Then, I painted a strawberry, watermelon and a Ladybug.

Here, is the picture of everything together.

I did have a great time, painting these stones. From tomorrow, back to work again. I will be back soon with my next craft projects!
Until then,
Happy Crafting!😘
Revs!

Daffodils.

Greetings,

This weekend, I purchased a craft book from a well known book store in  Bangalore called The bookworm. The title of the book is, Creative crafts for kids. I loved the book! It has so many simple projects for kids. The projects are very unique and creative! Here is a glimpse of the book.

 I did try a simple paper craft from the book. Daffodils, made out of yellow crape paper. It is easy and fun to make. It makes a nice decoration on a window sill or anywhere at home!

I hope you liked these pretty Daffodils!
I will be back with my next project, until then,
Happy crafting!

Coffee gal wall hanging.

Greetings,
I just finished my next projects. One of them is based on a coffee theme. A coffee gal wall hanging and the other one is a greeting card.

I made the coffee gal out of felt. I cut out the pattern and sewed them together and stuck them on a handmade sheet. I also added some stickers in the background to emphasise the coffee theme.

The fun part is framing this art piece ;)

I always wanted to try making greeting cards. I am quite an Amateur when it comes to paper crafts, but the pretty patterned wrapping papers and scrap book papers attract me towards paper crafts!
I tried this T-shirt and Shorts greeting card. I chose a humorous theme. I did have a hard time making this card, since it was difficult to cut the pattern without leaving a raw edge and I did leave the glue stains all over the card :(. Overall, the card is not perfect but I believe that there is always a scope for an improvement!

I did try to write some humorous wording, but not sure if it is funny at all!
I chose a gingham pattern for shorts and a plain paper for T-shirt.
I chose a pretty paper to make an envelope to go with it!
Finally I was very happy to add the logo of my blog at the back of the card :)!

Because of the time constraint, I combined both the projects in one blog, making this blog too long. I apologize to all my readers for this inconvenience.
I will be back soon with my next project.
Until then,
Revs!

Origami.

Greetings,

Off late, I am very interested in trying different kinds of crafts. After seeing beautiful patterns and design range in paper, I could not resist trying a few paper crafts. I made some origami crafts which are not perfect but I am not too disappointed with the results either.

I tried this origami Japanese doll, book mark. I made the envelope as well.

Then, I made these cute boy and girl doll and framed it to make a welcome sign for the entrance of my home.

Finally, I wanted something to go on the dresser, in my bed room. I thought this is a good idea.

Overall, my weekend was quite fun and busy, since I was occupied with these paper crafts!

Happy crafting!

Revs!

Watercolor 2.

Greetings,

I just finished another painting from The book, 'Words for friends to live by' which is illustrated by Mary Engelbreit. It was fun to paint this, and now it's hanging on a wall in my varenda, giving a beautiful look to my home ;)

Will be back soon with my next project. Until then,

Revs!

Second and third day of the knitting class.

Greetings,

We continued our knitting workshop and Adithi and Sanjana have now learnt how to purl in the second class. Sanjana learnt the purl stitch pretty fast, but Adithi was slightly off the track in our second day of our workshop.

Today, was our third class, and Adithi had practiced it well. Although, she is a bit confused with the purl stitch, she is grasping it pretty fast and she has already started making pencil doll from Dolly times. She knitted 8 rows of stocking stitch, each row consisting of 12 stitches.

 On the other hand, Sanjana was least interested in the class today. It is quite difficult and challenging to teach small children, since, we can't predict their mood and they are quite caprice.

Overall, I enjoyed teaching these kids how to knit!

Until, next time,

Revs!

First day of the knitting class.

Greetings!

I got an opportunity to teach knitting to small children! I will teach some kids how to knit all the Sunday's of this month. We just finished our first knitting class here at Madagascar Kids (a Montessori). We only had two kids for our first class. Adithi (10 years) and Sanjana (8 years). It was quite challenging and fun to teach these small children. Thanks, to my cousin who organized this session. 

Adithi and Sanjana learnt how to cast on pretty easily. Here is the picture I took after they finished casting on.

Teaching how to knit, became even more challenging. Adithi, learnt how to knit, fairly quickly but it was slightly complicated for the 8 year old Sanajana. But, she managed to knit a row.

Adithi is all smiling in the below picture when she finished here first row

Sanjana is happy too, but quite exhausted after she managed to knit a few stitches.

Over all, it was a great experience to teach these kids. I told them to practice at home and knit a few rows. My fingers are crossed. Hope they have practiced at home. In my next class I will be teaching them how to purl. 

More update on this after my next class.

Until then,

Happy crafting!

Revs!