Friday 30 November 2012

Baby Shower at Designing Life


I simply couldn't believe Sonam put this diaper cake together... You've got to check her blog for more details on this... 


This is her Sister in laws baby shower... Its so super cute... 


... and the baby... 


Oh.. I love.. these little hanging decorations.. *smiles*


Aren't the colours just gorgeous... 


Finally the cake... 


Do check Sonam's blog.. for more on this baby shower... Its super cute indeed... *smiles*

Wednesday 28 November 2012

Artist Intro ~ Amrita Rao

On Colours Dekor today... is Amrita Rao ...


Over to Amrita.. 
I'm a self-taught artist focusing on oils on canvas. My passion for art has been a long-standing one, right from childhood. I've always loved color, and loved drawing and been encouraged by my father who is an amateur artist himself. He made it possible for me to play with oil pastels, watercolor, sketch pens and even oil paint at a young age.  There were also books about the great masters always lying around at home. My earliest remembrances of school competitions have been of drawing and painting! 


As I grew up however, studies, marriage and then work took a more important place in my life and I almost lost touch with the artist in me. However, there came a turning point in my life after the birth of my daughter as I could not work full time and ultimately stopped working so I could look after her better. I was at a loss at the time to know what to do with myself the rest of the day when she was at school and it was my mother who reminded me about my artistic talents and urged me to take the step to become a professional artist. I started with pencil sketches at first but soon switched to oils as I simply love colors and cannot be happy unless I've created something vibrant. 



Over the last year and a half, I've painted a variety of paintings - still life, portraits, landscapes and abstract. I've sold four paintings and made two custom-made ones (not reproductions, I could never bring myself to copy) to suit the wall color and general color scheme of my client's home. I'm as yet discovering the scope of my gift and developing my style. I enjoy the freedom of not having to stick to schedules everyday and yet have a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. I've discovered creative work is as taxing and tiring as any job but so much more enjoyable, satisfying and uplifting. Whatever I see now inspires me to paint and my mind is always busy thinking about a new work of art! I hope you will all enjoy looking at my works as much as I have enjoyed creating them.


Do leave a comment.. and inspire the artist.. *smiles*

Monday 26 November 2012

Store Review ~ Trinketbag


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Trinketbag.com is an online brand for fashion jewellery and accessories. Their idea is to invoke a woman's favourite images, those of feminity, courage and spirit, while still keeping up with great quality and affordability. Most of their pieces are hand made by in-house artisans.



Bangles and bracelets by Trinketbag
Their unique way of presenting their jewellery in the forms of collections makes it interesting for the shoppers to explore the different trends and choose what they like. Some of their collections have been – Red Hot, Tales of the river, Jungle caravan, T-bag basics, The ethnic diva, amongst others.


Ethnic earrings from Trinketbag

They have neck pieces, earrings, bangles, bracelets, rings, jewellery sets, and are now soon introducing foot accessories and belts.



Neck pieces by Trinketbag

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Neck pieces by Trinketbag
All products from Trinketbag come in beautiful cotton pouches that one would just love to store all of their jewellery in.


Statement rings from Trinketbag.com

Trinketbag cotton pouches

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Friday 23 November 2012

Asha's home in Bangalore ~ Part 2


We've shown you what Asha's home looks like over all... now I'm  showing you some stunning corners of lovely home in Bangalore.. 


Telephone corner with Sarwasti idol and Asha's Tanjore painting ...


Another corner with Asha's Tanjore art on the wall and camel teeth pot ...


Framed Afghan carpet and partially seen mirror cabinet ...


On the kitchen wall ... a few plates.. and more.. 


On the passage wall, stencil work ... Isn't that pretty?


A small music corner and one of Asha's paintings on the wall...


Rajasthani marble in-lay work framed in identical mounting ... 


On the entrance wall, Camels and elephants on the wall!


Landing leading to the terrace, Gujarath's mirror work wall hanging!

I love how everything from around the world has found a perfect place in this home.. I now can't wait to see pictures of Asha's home in Bahrain... *smiles*

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Home Tour ~ Asha's home in Bangalore


Asha has invited us for tea... to her home in Bangalore.... Will you be joining me today?

and here is what Asha has to say...


I love both my homes very dearly and my home reflects my personality, my home is my world and last but not the least, home is where My art is, be it anywhere.
The funniest part is, if I'm in Bangalore I miss my Bahrain home and visaversa!!!! I want to be in both my homes at the same time... if anything like that is possible!!!!
I have very fondly decorated each and every corner of my two homes and most of the walls have my Tanjore paintings or my needle work displayed on them.
I constantly add new things to my decor, be it a candle stand, scented candles or any arty stuff that catches my fancy.... am always looking for new stuff for my homes.



Staircase Entrance, Asha's Tanjore painting is partially seen

2nd landing with Asha's son's sketches on the wall

Main door landing

And the main door opens to this... 


Shoe cabinet at the entrance... 


The view of the other side of the show cabinet...




 The formal living area...




This could truly be anyones favourite corner... and its Asha's favorite as well...  music area with Tanjore Ravi Varma  painting & Papyrus art from Egypt


Corner wall with Ganjifa art ....


and finally the informal living space...


and so what do you think of Asha's gorgeous home...

Monday 19 November 2012

a little artist

Introducing to you today, is 5 year old Mowgli… (Indrani's little one!)

Mowgli is very talkative with lots of queries about everything, flying and floating in his day dreams with his purple coloured spects…   His first love is car. He is owner of 60-65 cars, 90% of them are scale model of originals. Just by a glimpse he can recognize the right car without any fault. He often gives his mom Indrani training on how to recognize these car.  



His second love is painting, which is obvious from all the work done. When he was around 2 and ½, he started drawing. From then on, his parents always stocked new drawing books and other materials. 

And when he is the mood.. he can finish a book in just two hours and then start screaming for more pages… 

His aim in life to become 1) Astronaut, 2) Pilot, 3) Automobile designer, 4) Truck driver.

His future plan is to buy 5 Tata Nano cars (different colours), 3 Audi, 3 Mercedes, 1 Fiat 500, 2 Volkswagen  Beetle, 1 big Concrete Mixer, 1 Rescue Van, 3 big private jets, 1 Helicopter etc etc etc.




Here is how he colours plastic containers... and reuses them.. 


butterflies on plastic .. in acrylic... 





And this is an empty rasgulla tin... He made this with his mom...



The Red jar is a glass jar, painted with acrylic and marker pen...


What do you think of the little magician... 



Monday 12 November 2012

Last Weekly Story

Hello my lovelies... this is the last weekly story for the year... 

November & then December...  are going to be super busy months at work, at home with the festive season, our annual guests, travel plans, school, and the numerous other things that happen during this time of the year... So I'm going to take an early blog break... and be back in January... 

Saying that from now until the first week of December, I've got some posts scheduled for you that have been waiting for a while... two home tours, a few artists features, and even a baby shower... So do come back and see what happening till December at least... 


And here is what we did to our IKEA coasters for Diwali... 


all you need is a little bit of glue... and then some glitter... and the sad and boring coaster become all festive... 


so what do you think?






Here is wishing you all a very Happy Diwali... and best wishes for the year ahead...