Madhubani peacock

My friend gave me coloured pencil postcards set and I just wanted to use it. I decided to try Madhubani peacock on it and it came out pretty good. Because of the colour pencils, it isn't as bright as most Madhubani paintings are, but I do like the light affect on it.

stampin up cards

I met Belinda, independent stampin up demonstrator at the fund raising craft sale held at holy cross catholic school at Glenwood. I was quite impressed with the beautiful cards made by her. I spoke to her about stampin up products etc. She teaches making cards every month at her residence which was quite useful. I decided to go this month and I have to say that I was very happy with it. It was just 25 dollars per class and we get to make 6 cards and we can use all the her products. It was such a fun class. I cannot believe that these were just plain card stocks that turned into beautiful cards.

Egg free, nut free, dairy free cup cakes

Today is my little ones birthday and I have to send cup cakes to school. There are kids in the school with so many allergies and when I spoke to the teacher she said, the cup cakes had to be egg, dairy and nut free. Egg free isn't a problem as we are vegetarians and don't eat eggs anyway but I couldn't find anything in the store that were also nut and dairy free. The bakery people told me that generally its not readily available and it had to be pre ordered. So I decided to make it, I dint have time to test it, I had to make them yesterday. I visited over 100 sites and wasn't very sure of any recipes until I found Sweetrosie's blog. I decided to give it a ago and it turned out really good. I hope kids enjoy them too. The only changes I made to the recipe was, I used olive oil instead of sunflower oil and used apple cider vinegar instead of lemon juice. Thanks Sweetrosie for such a wonderful recipe.

Ganesha wall hanging

Happy Gowri and Ganesha festival to everyone! This time I made a Ganesha wall hanging. I Made about 12 of these for everyone who visited my home for Ganesha aarthi. I used 15 by 15 inch canvas for base, covered it with color papers. Drew a simple ganesha symbol in the middle using glass liner, decorated with rhinestones that's it and wall hanging is ready. It took me maximum of 25 minutes for each piece. Very easy and quick. I made different symbols in all the 12 wall hangings and I used different combination of color papers too. I have none left, I have to make one for my own house now :)

christmas card

I know its a little early but I started making some Christmas cards, just wanted to be ready for the holidays. I found the tutorial for this card on YouTube. Its in Spanish but you don't really need to know Spanish to understand as the video is pretty self explanatory. Very happy with the way it turned out.

Latch hook flower

Tried some latch hooking, its real fun. Love the way it turned out. Needed a boxed frame for it so had to get it custom made.