Perler Beads craft work from Swarnaa Creations

When I first saw a few Perler Bead work in Facebook, I thought it to be mosaic work in Quilling coils. But later came to know about these beads and on enquiry found that one lady is supplying it. Got it from her and we all were excited in making it. With the limited boards available we  managed to make a few designs and the first design the kids made was a heart for their dad to be gifted on his birthday.

Acrylic Rangoli

During my last visit to Pune, got a few plain Acrylic Rangoli sheets and then we, yes we me and kids started decorating one of them. After decorating them, we were so amazed and amused by the different kinds of arrangements we could make with those sheets.

Paper Flower bouquet

Flower bouquets are used to welcome guests during functions. The bouquets made using natural flowers tend to dry and whither easily. Here is something new and different which my daughter made to give to my friend who is also a teacher when she visited our home. The bouquet came out pretty well, and I never knew that she can be so creative.

Embossed painting by kids

Holidays are fun for kids but at the same time quite troublesome for parents. Got a few embossed painting kits for kids and made them paint in them. These kits contain a black canvas sheet with raw design in grey, brush and glass paints. But personally I felt that the paints and brush are not suitable for the same. So I got the kids acrylic colour and different brushes and asked them to paint it. After it dried ironed it at the back to give a puffed up look and the out come is definitely awesome.

Holiday Project - Painting a CD

Now a days just like Floppy Disks CDs also have become extinct. We have copied most of them into external hard disk. So now they remain unused. And a few of them have also have got damaged too. So we decided to paint in it using acrylic colours. And my daughter did the same. One of the sample.

Holiday Work - Painting on OHP Sheet

It is a tough time during summer holidays, and I have to keep my kids constantly engaged. After doing some colouring  after reading books, doing puzzles and even after watching their favourite shows in TV, they still nag me for more and so I decided to make them try out painting on OHP sheet, which I have done when I was young.

Teaching kids to sit quite for sometime is definitely a Himalayan task. When I had to complete my work, I asked my son to trace something from his mega painting book. He tried tracing a peacock and painted it using acrylic colours. For his age (he was 8 when he did that) I cannot expect absolute perfection but it came out really good.

Navarathri gifts made in the year 2013

We keep Golu during Navarathri every year. Ours is not a big thematic one but we ensure that we arrange our dolls well. All along I have been buying small useful items from outside and gifted the Sumangalis along with Vethalai Pakku, manjal and Kumkumam.  When I saw many people gifting Kundan Rangolis, a sudden thought struck me why not draw Aishwarya Kolam and gift it to all the people. So drew it on a paper (ofcourse my dad did it as I am not too good at Aishwarya Kolam), and I copied it on OHP sheets. Then jumped in my kids, they wanted to try out glitter glue on it and wow it turned out too good. I was a proud mom to gift those to all those who visited us.