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.

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.

Miniature Book Earrings

Mini Book Earrings, Its very simple and fun to make, My daughter helped me to cut the paper, this is my first try with earrings. I thank Mrs Kathe Rauch who taught me how to make this.

You can take print out of your own choice of book, the printouts could be taken in regular paper and apply 2 to 3 coats of modpodge on it, so that it becomes stiff and hard. Or you can print it out in photo paper.

For the pages you can simply fold the paper about 4 times and cut it out to the size of the book and now fold the book cover and stick the pages to the spine of the book.

Make a hole at the top corner of the book with the help of a push pin or nail and insert a jump ring and attach the hook to it and close the jump ring.

You can print out the below image to make one.

Candle Holder decor

Make your own design on a glass candle holder, with readily available items.

For this holder I have used glitter ,salt and food color.

Make your own template on a piece of paper, make sure the paper fits into the candle holder.

Place that template paper inside the holder and stick the edges of the paper to the holder with tape so that it doesn't move while you trace the design outside, you can do that with a marker or paint, I have used paint to do it so that it pops out well.

Now use the glitter glue of your desired color and fill the gaps inside your design, you can do the same thing on all the four sides or can do something like what I did.

I mixed some Epsom salt with food color(red) and I mixed some glitter powder to it as well but it didn't make much difference so just food color would be enough or you can try mixing with paint of your desired color, not sure if the salt will melt.

I used painter's tape to make the design, apply modpodge or glue onto the surface and sprinkle the salt generously and dust off the excess with a paint brush once it dries out.

KID'S ROOM DECOR

     
                                                               Easy Wall Art

Materials needed are
                                1: Canvas board of any size, I have used 16''x20'' board.
                                2: Acrylic colors of your choice.
                                3: Painters tape.
                                4: Paint brush or sponge.
                                5: Wooden animal cutouts (not necessary).
                                6: Stencils of your choice (not necessary).
                                7: Glue

Stick the painters tape in which ever way you want, but make sure the edges of tape gets stuck to the board well, if not the paint seeps through the tape, I used hot air gun to dry the paint quick, but the heat made the tape to loose its stickiness and the paint started bleeding into the edges, I tried to fix it by painting the edges white, but didn't turn out as expected, so please be patient unlike me and let it dry naturally.

So here me and my daughter taped the board and she wanted to decorate it some animals, so we placed the animals and checked for the layout and decided which color to paint.
You can either buy the painted animal cutout or the plain wooden ones and color it according to the kids wish.

If you apply the paint away from the edges that will reduce the bleeding into the space. Let it dry completely and then remove the tapes, before removing the tape you can give a second coat of paint if needed.

I have used some stencils to add some extra details, you can just leave it plain if you want to, I have used metallic markers to color it, trust me it's very easy compared to working with paint and you will achieve a defined outline unlike the sponge work.

         I used hot glue gun to stick the animals to the board, you can use tacky glue or the E600. 

WASHI TAPE DECOR

Washi tape decor by Rama Eshwar

Materials needed are : Scissors and Washi Tape of your preference

 First choose the surface you want to stick the tape, it can be either drywall or door and clean the area with dry cloth.
Decide on the pattern and colors you want to make and you can start sticking the strip by starting at one end and continue to apply pressure along the length of the strip, and when you reach the desired length cut the end.

For decorating doors you don't have to follow any color pattern, you can go with random colors and random patterns.

You can for either go for horizontal or vertical pattern. In this door both horizontal and vertical patterns have been used.

 For this ZigZag pattern you don't have to take any measurements, the easiest way is first stick the center tape starting at the corner edge of the rectangle and end it at the other side so that it is slightly above the midpoint of the length of the rectangle, repeat the same process starting from the other corner edge of the rectangle.

For the remaining stripes just eyeball the distance from the center stripe and stick it out.

For the bird pattern cut 2 inch stripes of your desired colors and stick like the above shown picture.

Kids Room Decor

Canvas Decor For Kids Room

Materials needed to make this are : Canvas board of any size you prefer I have used 16x20
Wooden letters, acylic paint any color you want, painters tape, glue and brush that's it.

        Arrange the letters on the board and check if it fits or change the alignment accordingly .

Next step is to sand the wooden letters, coz if you could see in the above picture the edges are
rough, smooth it up using the sand paper, I have used the fine grit sponge, but if you use fine grit paper that works best to get into the tiny gaps. Rub the sponge/paper along the grain of the wood, if you are not sure about the direction of the grain, just rub your fingers on the wood and feel, if its smooth that's the right direction, if it is rough then its wrong direction, if you sand in the wrong direction it will worsen it, and you can't skip this step, if you do your final outlook won't be good, * Else you can buy the flat wooden cut letters ,its very thin and smooth finished so you don't have to sand. Since I wanted a bold look I have used these letters.

                               I have painted the letters and some wooden cut outs.

                               

I have used a 16x20 board so I have made boxes of size 4x5 inches using pencil and ruler, and then stick the painters tape on the line such that the line lies along the midline of the tape.( Trust me use a good tape so that you will get the fine edges, I have used some cheap $3 tape and i totally regret using using that, coz I had a hard time making the tape to stick on the board and results were not that good if you could see in the picture below, so please use a good brand.

                              

I glued the letters  and the wooden cut outs to it I have used the hot glue gun, that works better for this compared to the regular one.