A DIY Home Decor

Looks like this is my first post in my blog this year. Yay! 

Ok, besides the excitement, I am actually more inquisitive to describe about my small DIY project I have done this month on the eve of Valentine’s day.  

I know I am so damn crazy to celebrate valentines day whether I am single (Ofcourse I do love myself)/committed/married or whatever. When I told this to my mom, she asked me why do I step back if she asks me to celebrate any festivals (I just give reasons to her saying that I am not there in India to do pooja and all..frankly few people do them here too ;) ), anyways I still don’t know why I go bonkers to celebrate this day :D

One big reason is now a days I am getting too lazy to even wake up and eat. So to get rid of this laziness, I have adopted to involve myself in doing something whether it’s big/small/worth or not. Let's give a break to my stuff and ...well...yeah..

Ok..Here goes the project.  The theme is clear—Its valentine’s day. (Means its celebration of pink,red,glitters and ofcourse love :D). I went to Walmart and did a sorta stationery shopping. Bought some construction paper, foam sheets, premade sticky felt hearts, felt sheets, yarn thread, clothing clips, acrylic paints, glue gun, glitters, sharpies, ribbons, and some gift wrappers. The list appears to be big but the project is indeed small.

The first one is Clipboard:

Took some wooden board, cut it in round circle shape, got clothing clips, painted all (board and clips) of them with 2 different green shades, glued the clips in reverse direction and finally added a ribbon to hang it on the wall. You can actually use more creativity to decorate it well..I just decked it with some premade stickers. I have just clipped some old photo cards that were resting in my old photoframe to give a feel of final look..,, I have left some portion to attach some greeting cards.

The Second one:  Heart garlands

I made two different garlands…I tried to match them but somehow it turned little childish. That’s okay..I am happy with it..since this is my first attempt. I am not that bad :D

Ok.. it goes like this...I took some foam sheets and felt sheets…cut them into heart shapes…used the foam sheet as base and glued heart shaped felt sheets on them and decorated again with some premade heart stickers. Finally I gathered all of em and glued to the yarn thread with 3-4 inches spacing. This looks easy but cutting them into heart shape is the biggest challenge. :D The second garland is easy…I took some gift wrapper and cut them into triangle shape, and took some left foam sheets (selected a single color as the gift wrapper is multicolored already), cut them into small heart shaped ones, glued them. In the end, again I used yarn thread to make it as a garland.

The Third one: Handmade Greeting card and booklet

This is a special one to my heart because first time in my life I prepared a greeting card with my own hands J I made this using some red/pink/purple colored construction papers and again decorated with heart stickers. I tried to make a 3D card but it kinda looked funny and I made a booklet just to say 14 things I love abt my hubby as valentine’s day comes on “14”th. Though making the card looks simple, it was a tough task for me to narrow down the list to just 14 things :D. After making this I have hidden it and planned a small treasure hunt and had a bet with my hubby to find the treasure using some clues by 12’O clock. Yep, he loved the game :) Though this is not expensive, the happiness it brought to us damn precious.

 And the final ones with left over material:

I made these things with left over material J  

All the above pics are taken after finishing the work. 

I felt so happy to try something this time in a different way.

On top of it, my home now is more spruced up than before !!

Cheers :)

Tring,tring!!

rooba rooba roo... (my mobile's ringtone...it's ringing)

me: Hello!

X: Maam, Is this Madhuri?

me: Yes

X: This is vignesh, you got a parcel, Could u please come to reception?

me: Sure

X: mam, security guys stopping to enter inside, they are facing problems with the pack, some beep sound is coming, could u please come now/?

me: yep..hold on!

At that moment, many set of feelings doodled in my brain like anxiety / cheerfulness /sorrow /tension / fear and soon..

Frankly speaking, I was not much excited because I already know it, but I was very much pleased to hear about the present since it was the most awaited one after a long time. And you know how glad it would be to welcome a day with a gift and that too with chocolates, I guess, chocolates are the best gift in this world, I believe them as the symbol of love, care and affection.

Of course, I was sad, completely worried… why because, I was very sure that if at all my colleagues notice that pack, that’s it..; I would end up in accumulating the wrappers rather than the original pack. I had many bitter experiences when I was in my training, One monkey used to grab all my choclates… (;)) and Tarun used to strive hard to get back for me somehow J . And yeah, Fear…I was little afraid not because of beep sound coming, but because I was pretty sure that all the chocolates would get melted. What a moment it was…!!

I reached Reception, it was occupied by many people, as I cannot recognize that guy, I gave a call to him and yeah there he was, he waived his hand and handed me that parcel, but the person near security was so much scared thinking it was some atom bomb :D . He wanted me to open it in front of him to make sure that everything must be alright. I told him that he need not worry as I don't have any such friends who will take revenge on me. But he denied and said, of, course we should not suspect friends but republic day is near, .so we cannot trust anybody...then immediately my reaction was – what the hell? It’s chennai,..anyways, hehe I convinced him saying I don’t have any such friends who try to kill me at least in such a rich style. I opened it….smile smile smile………..!! everybody was smiling J kisses chocolates (that silver wrapper must was responsible for that beep sound), lite… I was busy in eating them :) :) lol………………….btw, million thanks to the special sender :) ;)

gift from Google

Being in a Support Project, today I had to come to office (of course on every saturdays). As I am wetty, I am just seeking all the possible ways to kill the time…in eating some guys brain, wandering here and there, checking the scraps in orkut, and when I got vexed of all this..I just decided to download some games and start play…

So I opened Internet Explorer..and as soon as I saw the homepage (I feel everybody’s homepage is GOOGLE), I am spellbound.

Here, Google gifted me this.. :P! It has customized the home page with a playable PAC-MAN logo to celebrate 30 years of the legendary game.

I know most of you love it, I do..Pacman is my favourite game.Thanks Google…

Guys who don't have it and still wanna play it, hurry up!it won't last anymore :)

Kudos Google geeks, you rock!!

Cheers

My sweeet dream...!!!

Friday morning...I got up at 8.00 A.M as usual....I had to be in class by 9.00 A.M. I got ready,, I locked my room....and While on the way to Lab, I was shocked by seeing all different(VIBGYOR) colors of roses. At that moment, I felt like...Am I in STC ?? or somewhere in Kerala's RoseGarden!! :) :) . I thought that I felt so because I could not come out of my beauty sleep and yeah, I just left .

When I came to Lab, I was again surprised by a Bed welcoming me instead of Computers and Chairs!! and U know, there was a BIG GIFT Box on which "Maddy...This is for you" was written on it. I screamed aloud and I ran, I jumped on that bed which consisted of many teddy bears (of PINK color) and I arranged all those teddies beside me....and then I started...., opening the gift box. Just before doing that, I found some card (ha ha) on which some steps were mentioned to be followed :) :).....those were

1. Have a smile on your face.
2. Close your Eyes and then start opening it......




So, I did so whatever steps they wanted me to do.....I ripped that packet and when I opened that box.., i realised that someone was hitting me...It was Pressi..(my roommate).She was shouting "Maddy get up..We are late again...Its 8.30!!"...I was like ..same stupid old bed...with no teddies :( :( Oh it was a dream...and I uttered "uff..yaar Pressi, you would have allowed me to sleep for 1 more min!! I missed my gift". Then I rushed..I hurried like hell and finally I had my breakfast also :) thanks to Tarun who signed for me...otherwise I had to guss my breakfast and die with empty stomach.

After going to class, I generally do not have any work so I started thinking about my dream.. I hope I got that dream because of my passion towards pink articles, lovely pics in my mailbox...and I am eagerly waiting for a gift which will be sending by Cherry :) :). This is What I concluded at the end. By the way, the dream was really pleasant and lovely.

“Dream what you wanna dream, Go where you wanna go, Be what you wanna be, because You have only one life...and one chance to do all the things you wanna do!!!!”