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.

Designer plate for my Nephew's Upanayanam

Wanted to do something really decorative to display the gifts for my nephew's upanayanam and I made this designer tray. Got a leaf designed green plastic plate which is light weight, I decorated it with laces and patches.

From the ordinary to beauty

After my marriage, I have not worn any designer blouses. But, I wanted to wear one for my cousin's marriage. The one that I had for the saree that I planned to wear was quite plain and ordinary. So decided to design it. Did embroidery using golden thread and then attached some ready made patches to create a design. 

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.

First Try of Warli Painting

Warli is a different and unique kind of painting where the pictures are quite simple and one can depict any event in a very easy way. (This is my own perception). To read more about this Warli Art check Wikipedia. 

When we made pakku mattai plates for Navarathri, I wanted to try this on those plates which had a slightly black and not pure white. It happenned inspite of me and daughter choosing the plates very very carefully. The first brown one was done on a big plate and the second Orange one was done on a small plate. The peacocks came out quite pretty. We used these two plates to distribute chandanam kumkumam and vethalai pakku. As these plates are quite light, even the kids could handle them. And the surprising part was they did not bend inspite of the weight of the cups. 

Pongal Special for 2015

Pongal is always a special function as it is the first function that is celebrated with great pomp in Tamilnadu. The 4 day festival calls for lots of celebrations with kids too having holidays. We wanted to make something really special for this year's Pongal. We used Air Dry clay to make Karumbu, inji kothu, manhal kothu, vethalai, paakku, thengai and also a pot with Pongal. Son made a Cow too and we placed it too to depict Maattu Pongal.  Hope all these miniatures looks closer to real ones.