Ganesh Chaturthi 2016

Warm wishes of Ganesh Chaturthi to my wonderful readers!!
May this festive season bring to you prosperity, happiness, health, success and contentment. Ganesh Chaturthi is the second most anticipated festival at my place, first being Diwali. Ganesha - the remover of obstacles, the patron of education, the God of intellect and wisdom, is worshiped in many homes through out the year. But this time of the year many states in India and many Indians across the globe welcome Ganesha to their home with grand fervor to celebrate the birthday of the elephant headed God.

Each festival and occasion calls for a celebration and make your creative juices flow. Last year few days before Ganesh Chaturthi I had made a M-seal Ganesha and for this year celebration I was planning to make an Eco friendly Ganesha. But as it is said man proposes and God disposes, God had some awesome plan for me this time. We have recently shifted to Mumbai and I am celebrating this auspicious occasion at a place, where each and every nook and corner of the city is glowing with the aura of the elephant headed God. Presently busy in arranging my home and have no time for DIY. But I'll not disappoint you all. For me presence of lord Ganesha spreads positivity and I have few corners of my Noida home shimmering with positivity for you all. 

Ganesha brings prosperity and initiate new beginnings. 

Vighna Harta - the remover of obstacles.

Lambodara- the one who have big stomach. It stands for vast capacity for amalgamation and incorporation of thoughts and ideas. 

Mangal Murti - The one who bestows peace or purity and endows auspiciousness. 

Vidyapati - The master of Vidya or Knowledge. 

I hope Ganapati-the master of all will bring in peace and harmony in our life and will fulfill our dreams and wishes. 

"Ganpatti Bappa Moriya"

DIY Paper Mache Tray

Hello Readers...
My blog space is one of my favorite space, but I admit that I often don't give justice to this space. I have realized this many times and yesterday a mail from a very dear follower of When Creative Juices Flow reminded me it again. She has written about a tutorial. In a post entitled "Ohhh Summer", I had mentioned to come up with a post on paper mache tray. She searched about it, but couldn't find the post and thus wrote to me. I am really happy to see her message and super happy to know that my posts are really read by some at least. I am so sorry that I have mentioned about it and then completely forgot to make the post. I promise I'll make all pending posts soon. So here is the tutorial of paper mache tray. 

Items required 
1- News paper or Egg cartons or any other paper (I usually use egg cartoons)
2- Plaster of Paris
3- Water
4- Acrylic paint
5- A white paper

6- Paint brush

7- Sea Shells

8- Fevicol or Glue

Step-1

The first step is making of paper pulp and then paper dough. Once the dough is ready, we need to give it the required shape. Please click on this link for the detail tutorial, where I have mentioned all these three steps while making paper mache tea coasters. (Follow step-1 to step-8). These steps for paper tray are missing and it is same as paper mache coasters, so please refer to the above link. 

Step-2

For tray I had made an oval shaped paper mache base of around 25 cm length, 12 cm breadth and 1 cm thickness. 

Step-3
Once the tray base dries completely, stick the sea shells with fevicol/glue. Allow the glue to dry completely. 

Step-4

Now paint the paper mache base by using acrylic paint. I preferred to keep it natural so painted it in up-white colour.

 

Allow the paint to dry completely and then it is ready to use. 

 

It is strong enough to hold your small table decor accessories or other knick knacks. Hope you all will like this and so sorry Sheetal I kept you waiting so long.