Rangoli for Pongal

Hi Friends,

Hope all are fine. I'm writing this blog after a very  long time. I'm restarting with my daughter's rangoli designs during the pongal festival. This year she did all the designs by herself. 

Hope you liked the Rangolies. Thanks for visiting.
Cheers
Savitha

An Activity with the Kids

Hi,

     After a long break I'm back to the Blog world.  I feel so excited to share some of the art works done by the children during our get together. They were aged between 3 and 13. We painted and decorated a picture frame from the card boards. For the picture we did a Rangoli pattern. We also did some origami. My son taught us how to make a ninja stat and a puppy. my daughter taught us how to make a bow. You can see them in some of the frames. Everybody were very creative. It was super fun and it was a great experience for me.  Here is the treat for you as well.

Giridhar's Art

Harshitha's Art

Jade's Art

Jaimie's Art

Sahana's Art

Samrudh's Art

Trishul's Art

Sandhya's Art

Savitha's Art

Swetha's Art

Thank you for visiting my Blog. See you next time with more crafts.

cheers

Savitha

CHILDHOOD GAMES OF TAMILNADU

Hi Friends

It has been a long time since my previous post. Today I thought I will post some of the games played by us in our childhood. It may bring back some people's memories, or even help some parents to teach their children to play(like me).  My friends have helped me to list them and gave me the rules on how to play them. I must say a big THANK YOU to all of them. I have listed some of them here. I'm not sure if they are played in other parts of India as well , with similar rules.

• Pallankuli
• Gilli Thandu
• Gundu
• Bambarm
• Thayam
• Pannakal
• Komberi Kolaleri
• Paramapadam
• Chippili

Bambaram:

picture courtesy : Google.

For Bambaram everyone should have one Bambaram each and we keep a flat wood inside a circle. Then with the Bambaram you need to make a hole in the wood. if you miss to do that you need to put the Bambaram inside the circle. Then everyone will hit your Bambaram with their sharp nail edged Bambaram.

Gilli Thandu:

picture courtesy : Google

It is played with two pieces of Wood one big and one small one. Using the big stick you need to hit the small stick as long as you can. That position is marked. So each and every player in the group should do that. All their positions are marked. The person who hit the least position will be the looser. he need to go to the longest distance which is marked and the person must throw the small stick targeting the big stick which is placed where they did hitting. If you failed the person will start to hit from where your small stick landed. It will keep on going until you hit the big stick. For example if we play as a group of 4 you have to touch all the three.  Actually once you throw your small stick it will land  in a place. The first person come with  the big stick and once he touches the small stick your time starts and you can run and touch others before he hits the small stick. if you touch them before he hits the small stick the person is out or else you need to throw the small stick where it landed in the recent hit. you have to do it until you touch them before hit or you need to beat them by throwing exactly your small stick against the big stick.  A bit confusing rules as I have never played it.

More about other games will follow later

Cheers
Savitha

Update on the Dimensional Embroidery

Hi Friends,
I did a little bit on the flower. just the two little leaves. I used detached button hole stitch. I have started working on one leaf its still half way thru.

Cheers
Savitha

Dimensional Embroidery - 4 Update

Hi Friends,

Here is the update of the dimensional embroidery. I managed to stitch only the stem for this week. 

For stem I used the Twisted Chain stitch. 

This is the close-up picture of the stem.

Hope you like them
Thanks for visiting my blog.
Cheers
Savitha

Dimensional Ebroidery - 4

Hi Friends,
Today i have completed the second flower. for this flower I had put some extra added effort by maintaining the color. Actually I used a double colored thread for doing this flower. The base of the flower I stitched with the Dark red color part of the thread. The detached chain part I had stitched with the lighter coloured part of the thread.

 Here I have embroidered only the Base of the flower.

 The completed flower no. 2

Which flower do you like?  the first one or the second one?

Thank You for visiting my blog.

Please Post your comments

Cheers

Savitha

Dimensional Embroidery - 4

Hi Friends,
This is my next Dimensional embroidery. This is the same design as we did for the summer Classes (for Children). You can see them here. All the Children enjoyed it thoroughly.  I had a copy of the traced design. so I thought I will make it a dimensional embroidered one.

This is the design. I filled the flower with Chain Stitch. I was able to do one flower for this complete week.

 Then did  one row of detached button hole stitch around the edges.  I used a double coloured thread and didn't plan too much. So the flower got messed up with colours.

Hope you liked it.
Thanks  for visiting the blog . your comments are more valuable.
Cheers :)
Savitha