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 :)
