Oats tin recycling

Helloooooo friends, how is the new week for you all?? Schools have re-opened here after summer break and we are trying to get adjusted to the new routine.
There was a craft challenge organised by a local lifestyle store, 2 weeks back. I participated in it and this was my entry. The 4 pictures take you around the garden on the tin. Awaiting the results, but I am totally fine even if I don't win because making this was so much fun. I really wanted to make something that made me happy. And it did exactly that :)

So byee till my next post. Have a nice day and a great week ahead!!

I am back!!

Hello all, I am alive, very much alive.. Big sorry for going again without notice. I used to see the number of followers increasing, and I used to feel guilty. But I just could not sit and write a post. I was too caught up with setting up a store (online on Facebook as of now). Its here, RainbowBunting.

I hope that from now on I will have a little more time for my blogging, now that everything is almost set up. But though I did not leave comments, I used to occasionally quickly go through all my favorite blogs (lots of them) :)..I hope I continue to get the love here that I used to get before. Please!!I know there is lots of catching up to do. Let me show you something that I made last week. We have an exhibition coming up for stuff recycled/upcycled to celebrate the Earth Day(22/04/2012). I have made these from my husband's jeans(with his permission).


A bunting

and a few key rings

Making one more bunting..Pictures later. Okay then take care all of you..Have a nice day.

Yarn scrap recycling

I have so much yarn scraps, from all the afghans that I am working on. And don't you feel they are too good to be thrown away. This is what I came up with this afternoon. You just need a bottle, yarn scraps and glue. Just stick them on as you wish. I want to make lots of these.

Do you have ideas to use yarn scraps, that you do not mind sharing??

Recycling

Iam feeling extremely extremely extremely low these days. Thats why the long absence from here. Not that things were smooth earlier, but we were facing them. But my mother, one of the most important persons in my life, is not doing very well healthwise. Iam very upset because of that. We had a long episode in the hospital, while I was in India, which includes a surgery. Now she is at home and I might go back to be with her for some more time. The recovery is expected to progress very slowly. Might take a year or so. So we are praying and trying to be strong and supportive.

I had lost my will to do anything, let alone crafty. But now I have decided I need to do these things to keep myself from going insane. Had kept a pair of shoeboxes earlier and had thought I will do something with them. So this is what I made from one of them today.

And I really felt better after finishing it. The fabric is from an old kaftan of mine.