Friday, February 19, 2016

Purisima creek hiking



The previous night Mr. Man had been continuously reminding me to set the alarm. We had a long drive to reach the hiking trail head where we should reach before eight o’clock in the morning. I didn’t even know how long and the difficulty level of the hike. I didn’t check the weather. In Bay Area, weather changes every moments, even 15-20 miles from home the whether could be drastically different. 

Monday, February 15, 2016

Repurposing rice bags


I kept some of the rice bags without thinking anything. Just I thought that, I could up cycle in the future. One day, while cleaning my garage, I just about to throw them in the trash. Suddenly, it came in my mind whether I could make cross stitch on them. Actually, just before I went to craft store to buy some fabric for cross stitch. However, the price of the fabric pulled me back. I desperately wanted to do some cross stitches. I took one bag, and very meticulously I ripped the seam , and make long fabric. When I tried to stitch on it with the yarns from my stock, to my utter disappointment, I found that it was impossible to stitch. I put away everything in box, and didn't open for a long time. One day, while cleaning my craft supplies, I took out the bag again, and tried to stitch with different tread, and I found out it could be possible to stitch on the bags. I almost jumped in joy. Then I up cycle all the four bags which I kept in my garage. Now all of them are added to my home decor. Here are all of them. I'm also showing how I cut the seam and changed them in totally different thing. No one could recognize what material I used to make the wall hanging, the table runners until I told. :)



Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Carrot spaghetti



After coming home from school junior demanded pasta. However, he usually only eat pasta with butter and cheeses. I wanted to add some healthy ingredients into it. If I add chopped vegetable he’ll not it. Moreover, putting broccoli in his mouth is challenge. But, I had only broccoli and carrot in my refrigerator. So, I boiled broccoli, carrot with a whole tomato, salt , and one teaspoon garlic powder. Make a fine paste and used that as the gravy. After eating the whole plate, he told “Mom it was tasty”. My effort paid off.
Two carrots


Wednesday, February 3, 2016

DIY bangle box

Some of my friends asked how I made my bangle box. When I was making the bangle, at that time only I thought of posting the tutorial of the same. However, it had been several months, probably almost a year, I yet to post the tutorial. I cannot understand why I didn't do it. May be my friends are thinking that I don't want to share. Before they prove themselves right I should put the tutorial now.

The finished product