Blue has always been my favorite color !

 I had seen some quilled earrings previously , sold as paper earrings.However they were very tacky looking and I didn't buy them.And since I wasn't very impressed the first time around , I didn't pay any further  attention to quilling either.

.After my wedding I had lots of fun setting up my home.However I missed my old art and crafts corner.Since i was a wee bit broke after the great change , i was reluctant to buy new stuff for my crafting work.This led to me reading up on new stuff online , as a substitute to actually making things.

Then LO!!!
Quilling is gorgeous. So many colours,so many techniques ! And the best part is that, they are lightweight, a blessing for people like with tiny earlobes. I had to try making them myself! I went to ebay and ordered a basic quilling kit.( cost Rs. 400/-) .I couldnt wait for it to come :)

And I have been planning on setting up an online shop forever, so i did that as well.

And quilling is what re-started it all  :) I am in the process of stocking the shop . so there are not a lot of things right now.

You can visit my shop at : http://www.indiebazaar.com/shop/Emajic?shopref=1411

On sale now ! Turquoise, Blue Quilled earrings

A pair of Blue and Turquoise Quilled earrings.

Total length 5 cm. Extremely lightweight.Stud back.

Increasingly overwhelmed

"The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know "- Socrates

While in school ,exams used to be overwhelming for me. Of course, it didn't help that I had the attention span and memory of a flea.

My family appears to be full of science oriented people ; teachers, doctors, scientists, engineers.My mother used to be a biology teacher , however what she loved most was chemistry.I was especially bad at science and my mother tried very hard to switch on the science in me.

As I was growing up she regularly explained to me about the different types of plants that surrounded us and the majesty of every tiny thing that lived on our tiny planet. Frogs and birds were always pointed out.She taught me to appreciate the tiny insects that crawled all our backyard ( and occasionally inside). She always told me their names if she knew it.
But what I always noticed was the patterns.The gorgeous colors on the hard exoskeleton  and  the fiery faces on some them, the honey that accumulates in the transparent tummy of the ant.
Her most favorite form of art was organic chemistry.The way they bonded was beautiful for her.And of course it was one of my worst subjects.
I genuinely don't remember most of the names of those insects ( and other living beings ) that she pointed out to me. And organic chemistry I ditched a long long while ago.She thinks she hasn't taught me anything worthwhile.

She used to tell me " only if you learn will you know how less you actually know ". ( I am sure she didn't know Socrates was there before her.Thank you Google. )
That one statement is probably the only thing that has stayed with me since then.The more I read,the more I see, the more I live ,the more I realize how little I know about anything.

So Amma, you see, I  have learnt at least one thing.That I know nothing.
To accept that most things are lessons that I haven't learned yet.And that there is something new for me everyday ,however routine it may look on the outside.And at this time , this phase in my life , I truly realize how remarkable you are.

I know you worry that haven't taught me anything , but you have taught me everything that I hold dear.

Thank you Amme.

Happy Birthday.I love you very much.

How many mistakes till we get it right?

So as some of you might know, I had planned to do something doable everyday.I mean , doesn't that sound like a simple doable plan? It did, and it is probably very much doable, but it sure is difficult to write about it everyday!
Not only that , not many people talk about how many mistakes are made when you try to do D-I-Y projects.May be its just me..but i seem to be making plenty of mistakes along the way.

What I learned from the past two days of DIYing is that mistakes will be made ,improvisations are necessary and we have look at the large picture and sometimes they turn out to be wonderful.

And that was the beginning.

I have been a Do-It-Yourself junkie ever since I remember.I didn't know it was called DIY but I used to do it all the same.
I guess I started being successful at it around the time I was ten, making clothes,accessories,furniture,clothes and a few utensils for my barbie house.I didn't (and I still don't ) really have any idea about woodwork, so for the furniture I had to take help from my Papa and my Amma had to teach me the basics of sewing.
I tried to lure in my sister as much as possible,so sometimes we did things together.She wanted to get it done faster ,so she developed faster tricks to get things done.Sometimes they worked, sometimes they broke down so fast that we just couldn't be bothered to do it again.
Remember, there was no real internet at that time in India.The slow,annoying connection we had was very expensive and used only for checking mails, but then again what 10 year old gets mails?
What i did not realize at that time was that it gave me a pretty solid base for making things by myself.I continued to teach myself as I grew up.
Then of course, school got over and I went off to college.It was fun but I more or less stopped making things for myself.Then of course came my job.I literally stopped doing anything fun.

Its all a long time now and maybe because I am back home,or maybe because I now have money to get supplies,or maybe because we have cost effective internet, I am going to get back to the real stuff I love.
Making things.
I am going to try out something doable everyday.Because learning what we love makes us happy.

So that's what this blog is going to be.
This is going to be demonstration of where your dreams can take you.Where my dreams is going to take me.I still don't know my destination, but i have started on my  lifelong journey.