Undoubted winners!

Every year we have Scintillations - L&T's Annual day function. This year, the main event happened on the eve of 17th of Dec. Before the main event there were a lot of interesting prelude activities taking place in our company. The entire office was divided in different planets and competitions were taking place within these planets. I belonged to planet Venus.
One of the competitions of my interest was "Product Merchandising"! This involved creating innovative and variety of products from waste/reusable materials. After the so called success in the Face masking completion, I took the lead in carrying out this activity for our planet. Number of ideas started floating in my mind... and I started working on each of them!
My team included some very talented girls from my planet. They all were equally excited about the whole thing. For the entire week and half we worked together and separately on different projects... and the end our team came up with 50 different products made out of materials ranging from newspaper to shoes!!!
Criteria for winning was: Variety, Use of material and Presentation. We had variety, we had made use of all kinds of scrap materials... and when compared with the other planets ... our display and presentation was OUTSTANDING!!
All in all it was a wonderful experience... had a lot of fun! And we turned out to be the undoubted winners!

Here are the links to few of the interesting items that I made out of waste material!
reusing-cardboards-and-pop-lids
e-wall-hangings
Reused-plastics

Reusing Cardboards and Pop Lids!

Here I have reused the carton boxes card board sheets and cold drink bottle lids to make some gift items Shoe box was used to make a lamp and lids were also used to make a colorful wind chime.

e- wall hangings!

Floppy disks to used as wall hangings. The floppy disk clip also works well to hold photos.

Reused Plastics!

Wall hanging:


This is made out of plastic bottles


Row of flowers:


Made out of plastic bottles and paper. This can be used as electric lighting if we pass bulb chain through it.


Piggi-banks:


Made out of waste plastic jars.

Face masking competition

On Dasara, our floor in office had organized a Face Masking competition. The floor was divided into different Wings... the deal was to create four masks on the theme of Diwali/Dasara/Durga pooja. We picked the Durga pooja theme. We only had an hour and a half to finish this task.

The plan was to create a scene of Mahishasur wadh. We started right on time and finished right on time …

Out of all the masks, our mask of Maa Durga was by far outstanding... had it not struck me to use 'Zhirmilya' for her mukut this wouldn’t have

been possible!

With the masks we made and the presentation that we gave we had to win ... and we did! :)

Forever in our hearts …

Here is one of my first craft project… Papa this one is for you:

Every step I take, every move I make, every smile I break, every prayer I say,

I'll be missing you.

Thinking of the day, when you went away, what a life to take, what a bond to break,

I'll be missing you.

 

The poem/prayer here is something that I found on the Internet… it just touched my heart…

Forever in our hearts

If tears could build a stairwell

And memories were a lane

We would walk right up to heaven

And bring you home again

 

In sorrow we watched you sinking

And watched you fade away

And though our hearts were aching

We knew you couldn't stay

 

No farewell words were spoken

No time to say goodbye

You were gone before we knew it

Can someone tell us why?

 

Our hearts still aches in sadness

And secret tears still flow

What it means to lose you

No one will ever know

 

You will never be forgotten

We pledge to you today

A hollow place within our hearts

Is where you will always stay

  --By Anonymous

Pencil sketching/shading

Pencil shading

Here are the first few of my sketches.... I do plan to join a class!

My first ever Egyptian painting

I have been dying to do an Egyptian painting since last three years probably. After coming back to India I had decided to join a class to learn the same... But never did.
Finally I decided to do it by myself...

Got some tips from my aunt, downloaded a picture, copied it on a sheet, and started painting... It wasn't until I used the Blue and Green color that the picture got its awesome look! I am in love with those two colors...
After painting the basic I came across the real challenge, outlining with black... I messed up at number of places. Hope no one notices... In the end the picture did turn out to look a nice... thanks to the stunning Green and Blue paint.. Used Fabric colors for the first time and loved them!
Then to finish it I tore the edges of the paper to give it an ancient look... and ... here is my first ever Egyptian painting....!!
This time i did it on paper... next time the plan is to do it on silk... :)

attempting Warli

Warli paintings are a form of Indian tribal art. These have originated in the villages and rural areas of Maharashtra within the Warli tribe. These paintings are drawn on the walls of huts or mud houses in the villages. These paintings are a form of line work where human figures are drawn with triangles representing bodies , lines representing limbs and small circles representing heads These paintings were drawn by the Warli tribe people to depict an important event in their lives, be it something happy or sad. Mostly these paintings are used to depict celebrations in the Warli villages. Celebrations like festivals, marriages, harvesting season, activities like hunting, farming etc. Traditionally these paintings are drawn by the new bride of the house and are considered to be auspicious , bringing good luck and prosperity.

These are generally drawn in white color with a dark maroon background.

Over a period of time number of variations have been seen. These days we come to see colorful forms of warli and even metal and wooden artifacts displaying this tribal art.

Here is a warli painting that i made on one of the walls in my new house. I find this art form very simple yet attractive as it doesn't involve use of multiple colors or shading. In my painting I have tried to depict different events in the Warli village.

• Left top represents the harvesting or the farming activity.
• Right top is depicting a musing concert.
• Bottom left is depicting the Holi festival
• Right Bottom is a Marriage procession
• Center - Goddess worship and tribal dance

This is my armature attempt at it. I too inspirations from number of people on the Internet to finish this. I hope you all like it.

Thanks for visiting!

My first blog

Yippeeeeeeee... finally I write my first blog. I have always been apprehensive about writing one. Exposing yourself to the world out there always felt a little crazy. But today I take the first step towards entering the cyber world. Putting my thoughts before my apprehension.

People have asked me over years that why I did not write blogs. Earlier the question that I always faced was "What to write about?". THere was nothing that excited or disappointed me so much to sit down and write about it. I have always been a reserved person and writing down my thoughts/life and sharing it with everyone has never been my fortey.
But then I decided to write about something that I enjoy the most, that is Art & craft. I did not know, until recently that I am so passionate about it.
I have always been a creative person. I can't sit idle. I always want to do something creative. Now that could be anything, a painting, ceramic work, album, flowers, lantern, etc. If I dont do it for a while it feels as if something is not right.
Not very long ago I saw these blogs about Mini album scrap booking... and i was totally hooked. These days I eat sleep and drink Scrap :)

There are so many talented people out there doing so many beautiful things and I had no idea that this existed. I was so overwhelmed after seeing what they have made that now i am officially addicted to it.. addicted to scrapping :).

This love and passion for art and craft = scrap booking made me write this blog.