Strawberry Pineapple Cake

Ingredients needed are Yellow cake mix, heavy whipping cream, icing sugar, chopped almonds, sliced strawberry and pineapple.
                                          Bake the cake and slit into 3 equal layers.

                          

                Beat the whipping cream with icing sugar and apply on the first layer, and arrange the fruits.

                               

 Repeat the same steps for the other two layers and cover it up with the icing, and decorate with remaining fruits and nuts.

                           

Wall organizer

Made this wall organizer with a $5 pashima scarf, of course you can make it with any kind of fabric, I liked this because it kind of gives a traditional look with shiny golden flowers and the border.

First step cut the fabric along the borders to separate out it from the body of the scarf, do this step only for the half of the scarf, since we need the rest of the half to make pockets.

Secondly cut the pockets of your desired shape and size, I cut 2 long rectangles and 2 short.

Third step steam iron all the cut pieces with any kind of facing, since the fabric is too thin and the facing makes the organizer to stay stiff.

Now sew the edges to seal it. And attach the borders to the body of the scarf .

Attach the pockets one by one and fold the top end and sew it.

                 

Diet Cookies

I named these cookies as diet cookies because, I didn't use regular sugar, nor maida/all purpose flour/ nor butter, wondering how i made without these essential ingredients, let's see how I made them.

This is what you need to make it. 1 cup whole wheat flour and 1/2 to 3/4 th cup of coconut palm sugar.

                               

The reason I used the coconut palm sugar is, It has low glycemic index, which means your sugar level won't spike after eating them and the calories are less compared to the regular refined sugar.
Add 1/2 tbspn of baking powder, 1/2 cup of chopped almonds and 4tbspn of ghee,
(which is purely optional), but I would still recommend to add some form of fat like shortening or oil, if not the cookies would be rock hard. I added about 4 tbspn of ghee but still we had hard time taking the first bite, it was bit hard.(remember it is diet cookie so it is not supposed to taste that good as the regular cookie)

 

                      

Mix up everything well add required water or milk to make it into a soft dough, then roll it into a sheet of 1/2 inch thick. Cut into your desired shapes and place them on parchment paper and bake it for about 15 mins at 350c.

                       

Candle Holder

I mixed Epsom salt glitter and food color and glued the mixture to the glass, you can make your own pattern.

            I drew the ganesha with black acrylic paint and used glitter glue to fill it up.

Bird Toran

 Take a template of your favorite design, cut it out on a felt, sew the edges and stuff with some pillow insert your favourite character would be ready, add the embellishments according to your desire, I have used some scrap cloth for the wings.

           I used the beads from my daughter's bracelet kid, so you can use your own imagination to do it.

Crochet Blanket

Well it took almost 6 months for me to finish this project, since I used medium weight yarn and made it in queen size.
I used about 15 bundles of yarn 3 bundles for each stripe.
                                 For the first stripe I did single crochet in both the loops

                 For the second stripe I did ribbed pattern by doing single crochet in the back loop alone.

For the middle stripe I did triple crochet.

               For the remaining 2 stripes did the same pattern as did for the first two stripes.

KOTHU PAROTTA

         Ingredients Needed are onions, tomatoes, g&g paste, green chillies, eggs and of course parotta.

                             Saute the onions well and add the gg paste and green chillies.

                 

 Then add the tomatoes and cook it well, in the meantime beat 2 to 3 eggs well with salt and turmeric.

                 

Add the beaten eggs to onion tomato masala and mix it well immediately so that it becomes something like this, if not the eggs well get cooked as big chunks and it would be bit difficult to break it up into fine pieces or paste like this.

                 

Cover it and let it cook for 2 mins, then add the parotta which is cut into fine pieces. Mix it well and sprinkle few tbspns of water, use a sharp or thin edge spatula to break the mixture more finer. Cook it until the moisture is gone.

                 

Cross Body Hobo Bag

Make a chain of 40 and single crochet in the top loop of each chain, at the end chain 1 and turn your work and single crochet in the top loop again this will create the ribbed crochet look, when you reach the end chain 1 and turn your work do single crochet in the top loop, repeat this for 7 10 8 rows depending on however you want the look to be.

                               

Then for the broom stick stitch or peacock stitch, you can use the same color yarn or a contrasting color, pull up a loop from each single crochet and insert them into a knitting needle, there should be a total of 40 loops, now to close the loop take a group of 5 loops, pinch them with your thumb, considering it as a single loop, make 5 single crochets around it, so that you will end up with 8 peacock stitches.
For the next row continue doing the single crochet ribbed stitch. Continue to the desired length you want.

       Now fold it into half leaving a flap of about 4 inches at the top to close the bag, and sew the ends. Make a strap of your desired width and length, I made chain of 5 and did single ribbed crochet.

 Attach the straps to the ends by sewing, and attach buttons, I have used the middle hole in the peacock stitch as a button insert.