Draw Something!

I am glued to an app called Draw something 2 these days. The app is a boon to an artist like to interact with various artist around the world. With the record playback option I learn a lot of techniques from great artist in that community. A strong path for artists to improve and expose the art in digital form. Few of my works for my blog readers and friends.. Find me at draw something 2 and lets draw something..

My Birthday 2012

This is very special birthday. I love bday parties and suprise parties. The most victimised sweet person for all the suprise party I arrange is my brother. I used to buy cakes, fill balloons with water and break them on his head. It makes me very happy. I celebrate my loved ones bdays as a festival. This time my hubby and my parents made it a huge party. We have get together un our aunty's house. I went to Kapaleeshwarar temple that morning with my parents and brother. My mom' s childhood play area was this temple. She was thrilled. The visit to the temple made me calm and relaxed. By evening, Nishok bought a huge black forest cake. This was the yummiest cake I have ever had. He gave me a beautiful chudidhar and my mom gave me a cute chudidhar. I just loved theose clothes. With family , I cut the cake and headed to Mathsaya.There we went for buffet since ala carte was over booked and crowded. We have nice time together. A bday well spent with family is a great gift. This made me realise how much my family love and care for me. Special thanks for my friends and Fb friends and blog readers for the bday wishes.

DIY : Pom Pom Flowers

I am into making crochet and cute stuffs with woolen yarn these days. Today being saturday, literally a break from tension and work, I chose to do something beautiful with wool. I was bored to do crochet though. So with the help of craftgawker, I found a way to do Pom Pom Flowers.

Here is the step by step tutorial for the same.

Wow! Instant Flower vase in my bedroom! I am loving it. Craftgawker is making me crazy these days..

Here are the questions if you want to give it a try it too! (:
1. What is your name
2. Blog URL
3. Write: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4. Favorite quote
5. Favorite song (at the moment)
6. Favorite band/singers (at the moment)
7. Say anything you want
8. Tag 3-5 bloggers


Grabbed a tag and posted the answers in my handwriting!

Thanks to "The First Lime"




Personalised Stick Bookmark

I saved two ice cream sticks to make bookmarks for my hubby. He always wants me to drive him  read books. He is currently reading 'Who will cry when you die?' by Robin Sharma.

DIY

1. Ice cream sticks

2.Fine Tip marker Pen

Lit your imaginative nerves to make awesome bookmarks

BE A BOOKWORM!!!!



List of things which make me happy..

Doing something creative always energises my mind and soul. During my childhood, I was very creative inspired by my mom and grandma. These hectic office days sometimes make me sluggish, complaining girl. But kick those feelings out of my mind doing something cute and close to my heart.

To be creative, we should keep our mind happy and relaxed. A bedroom curio like this makes me creative or simply happy

Things I do which makes me happy..

1. I clean my closet, bedroom and bookshelves. The spic and span room makes me proud.
2. Cooking new and traditional recipes is one such things which occupies my happy times. Shopping groceries for my cooking scores even more points =)
3. Painting or any art work. I use watercolours to paint. I also love making polymer clay models. My oven and kitchen have had enough of me baking clay model experiments. Once I tried baking a panda clay model which ended up with burnt butt with smoke all over. ;)
4. Photography and processing photos. I use all the photo edit softwares in my phone and laptop. I love Instagram and Lightroom.

5. Reading book ..Most of my time taken for travel to work is dedicated for my mom's conversation followed by a good book's company.

6. Spending time with my family. I just love it and which I long for each second.

7. Music. Good Music. Singing or listening to Music is always a great stress reliever.

8. Surfing through my favourite blogs.

Cute Charms which I made recently..

Quaked by Earth Quake

For the first time in my life, I felt the earth quake. I always wondered how an earthquake would be like. It was a scary, thrilling feel. Really. Whole of the software industry was on OMR rushing home. Myself and my brother struggled to get home. We had struggled to ride home from our office which took 3.5 hours to cover just 34kms. My brother who picked me from my office literally walked all way home sitting on his motorbike due to the very slow moving traffic. We could see the fear of death on everyone's face on the road. Tsunami alert was given which made everyone even more panic.

My dad stayed back in Chennai cancelling his trip to TNJ just to pick us up from our office and to make sure we are safe. His anxiety level is very very high when it comes to me or my brother. My mom kept ringing us from TNJ to make sure we were home as soon as possible.

We love you Dad and MOM! We are gifted. My parents love for us is immeasurable. We adore and celebrate you Mom and Dad!

Psssshhh: Dont tell anyone! I really enjoyed the earth quake. First time in my life time. Feeling thrilled and smiles all over.

Praying to God to minimize or nullify natural calamities! =)

African Peanut Soup

Recently, I subscribed to a food magazine called BBC's Good Food India. I found exotic, simple, tasty and easy recipes from the magazine. One such recipe is African Peanut Soup. I decided to make this easy and colurful soup for my hubby this weekend and shopped Keya various seasonings for the same.

I tried my hands in making a dish of this kind this morning. The soup turned out to be the best soup I ever made. Let me post a step by step tutorial for this yummy soup and my husband's comment here.

African Peanut Soup Recipe:

Ingredients are shown below

• 2 onion , roughly chopped
• 4 garlic cloves , roughly chopped ( I used Ginger garlic paste -- 1 tbsp)
• a 3cm chunk ginger , roughly chopped
• 2 red chilli , seeded and chopped
• oil , for frying
• 4 chopped tomatoes
• 2 cups of beans stock
• 2 level tbsp smooth organic peanut butter

                               

 In the processor, I ground onion, red chilli and ginger garlic paste into a chunky paste.

Tomatoes should be finely chopped. I used both 2 medium size tomatoes along with 2 berry tomatoes

Cook the chunky paste for 3 to 4 minutes with hot oil in a wok. I felt a perfect aroma of ginger, garlic and onion filling the kitchen and was a great healthy feeling. Adding chopped tomates to the wok is our next step.

Pour in the hot beans stock into the mixture and add salt for taste.

Stir in 2 tbsp of peanut butter along with chinese seasonings into the soup and shimmer.

I blent in seasoning in peanut butter before adding it to the soup mixture. This Keya Chinese Seasoning added extra taste and aroma to the African soup. Heat the soup till it is thick, blend it in the food processor and the soup can be made thick and smooth.

This African Peanut soup is a healthy colourful one which boosts a weekend in a great way. This serves 4 people.

 I served this African Peanut soup with Garlic bread and boiled and buttered beans. Try this soup and this soup sounds healthy.

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Hubby's writes

It was almost 21 days now, I am back from Sydney. I feel like there is something missing when I compare those days. I discussed with Priyaa (My wife). I used to have English breakfast (bread with milk) before starting to office. And used to walk 45 min to reach my office. After coming to India, I dumped myself with south Indian meals and added more weight within 10 days of time.

Planning as usual to reduce the weight to look, feel better and fit. So I had a thought process why not follow the same principal followed in Sydney to reduce weight. As a starter today we had partial English breakfast with African peanut soup. It’s good to have such an international delight in the morning itself.

About my wife to the reading viewer in my perception

She is a wonderful person, always surprises me with lot of extra circular activities; I  admire her a lot. Her extra circular activities are

 - She is trained martial art expert
 - A good Drawing Artist cultivated interest in pencil sketch, color painting
 -A good vocalist, she  sings songs when we go for bike rides
 - A self structured disciplined software Automation testing professional
 - A book worm - interested areas are Romantic book, self help, motivation
 - I got interest from her in the area of photography
 - She is such a wonderful person wants to do something to society in terms of explaining the recent incidence, cooking recipes, share master piece in her blog

I want these activities to grow and make her an icon of India one day. Her recent achievement are
- Indian Master Chef Award for Idly Briyani
- Feather in your cap Award from Wipro

I didnt wish or encourage her in words, and want her to wish her in words by writing comment in her blog.


All the best and consider these are positive reception and a mile stone in your travel and expecting lot more from your end. My encouragement, Support, care are always continue and there for you forever.

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Thanks you hubby. You are my source of strength and encouragment! Love you xo xo