Rainy Day tutorial for children - 5 mins DIY for an afternoon of fun

In a rainy day, there's nothing better than enjoying a boat race with your children. Here's a 5 minutes tutorial for an afternoon of fun.

You need:

Here I have used old play dough but hot glue gun is even better.

Enjoy!

Mad About Indian design

I started with Mexico, now it's India. A place where I'm hoping to visit one day with my Mr Special... I've been collecting photos from everywhere but the text in particular has been taken from An Indian Summer Design blog.

via wwArtnlight.blogspot.com

How to recreate Indian Style in your home - to begin with, you can play with the furniture, furnishings, walls and decor knick-knacks to get an Indian styled room.

~ Furniture:

If you can source or buy Indian furniture [traditional or contemporary], nothing like it. You don't need to do up the entire room with Indian furniture; just a couple of well placed accent pieces would also do.

~ Furnishings:

The right textiles and fabrics will immediately transform your room into a mini India! Indian/Indian style furnishings work work very well with regular furniture too, so you don't need to worry about first picking up Indian furniture before you do up your room. You can define the mood and genre of your room, and go for kitschy and colorful furnishings or pick up a more subtle color palette of Indian fabrics and prints. Sarees, used as decor accessory [window drape, bed drape, canopy, framed on the wall], instantly brighten up a room

~ Walls:


Color them bright - mustard, ochre, saffron, peacock blue; or use Indian print fabric drapes; or use Indian wall art, specially paintings from Indian folk art like madhubani, warli, tanjore, mughal etc; or take a wooden block and block print your favorite Indian motif on the walls; or hang your favorite Indian rug or kilim up on the wall!


~ Decor knick-knacks


Sky is the limit here! Though moderation is equally important so that your room does not end up looking like a museum or an Indian fair ;)


Given below is an example of use of Indian furnishings, ornate mirror and a bunch of peacock feathers to add an Indian feel to the room

Still wondering how you could get your own India inspired room? Well, if you look at the following images, I have tried to create some options using rooms from Pottery Barn and Ikea. You just need to replace or add some touches that will help give your interiors a feel of India!

Changes to the room: Mughal painting on the wall, cushions/pillows covered with Indian fabric, small painted chest instead of the small table, a rich rug below the table, table accessorized with Indian/Asian artefacts, raw silk throw and andhra leather lamp shade

Changes to the room: Block print fabrics! Curtain, bedspread and duvet all block prints with Indian motifs. Ornate lamp can be nice touch to an otherwise simple room. Wall can block printed with a motif from the fabric

Changes to the room: The same bedroom now in more vibrant colors. The white cupboard can be replaced by a handpainted armoire. The bedspread and cushions are made from sarees. Curtain is block printed cotton- voile, that allows sunlight to filter in. Wooden 'jharokha' above the bed completes the look

Now for list of some online stores from where you can source the magic to turn your room or home into India:
Pier, Pier1 Imports, Zara Home, ABCHome, SaffronMarigold, John Robshaw, Les Iniennes, Bhatik, Lombok, Myakka, Anthropologie, Kerry Cassill, Malabar Trading, Christ International, East of here, Ten thousand villages, Anupama, Sundance, Yellow Sunrise, Haveli Home, National Geographic Home

Here some more inspirational photos:

Via www.lotushaus.typepad.com

Via www.Rangedecor.blogspot.com

WELCOME SPRING GIVEAWAY: CHERRY HANDMADE LIPBALM

Dear readers, 

to celebrate spring, I'm announcing the first giveaway from my Mad About Pink Shop: a delicious handmade lipbalm 100% natural with yummy cherry flavour.

The birdie on the label has first been done in watercolours and it comes in a tube with a handy twist bottom. 

 

TO ENTER:

• Follow my blog and leave a comment. 

• To have multiple entries please link this post to your blog and let me know, I'm also very happy to follow your one.

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The winner will be announced on the 18th of April 2010. Plenty of time for you to join. Please make sure I have your email address so I can contact you for the shipping details.

Good Luck and Happy Spring!

Colorful Home Interior - Pink!!!

I've been shopping for a bedroom all week end and when I've saw on www.momoy.com the bedroom of this house on Portland Road London. I thought it was a similar style of what I wanted, except that mine was white furniture.
Decorate a room with multiple colors isn’t easy, you need to knowing about the color scheme to create beautiful combination. I hope to post a picture of mine soon. Please contribute send me more ideas, you must know what i like by now :-)

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