Sunday, January 30, 2011

Another Beautiful Sunday

Beautiful World ....amazing Sunday
In my ordeal of exploring and looking for my piece of the beautiful world or things that make it really beautiful , around me this Sunday was a feather in the cap. After a glorious weekend last Sunday, at the carnival, where laughter and music filling the air this quite Sunday atop a hill was a striking contrast. But it sure was a pleasure as my family and a few friends lazed around under the beautiful blue sky, on a lush green carpet of grass, as the suntanned us, almost beyond recognition. It just gave my poor old bones, which had shriveled up thanks to the cold another opportunity to stretch out to their maximum length. Woopy I have finally had two successive fun-filled weekends.


A lane of lilies in full bloom.
We spent our day at a beautiful little homestead called Sherlock, near Ooty. The weather was perfect, the food just yum, and of course the company just awesome.



The air here is so clean that you can see for miles across. The picturesque view being too perfect to be true.




The rooms, sorry didn’t click any pictures, though I promise to do so when we visit the homestead again, have an old-world Victorian charm. The wooden flooring, French windows overlooking the lush green valley below together with a little fireplace ready to be to set on fire, all make the rooms cozy and really inviting. I can hardly wait for my next visit and stay and 'am really looking forward to sitting out in the lawns and sipping my cup of tea as I bask in the mellow sun. For those of you wanting to run away from the exhausting, traffic jam-filled , smog clogged, noisy metropolis this would be a refreshing change.




Thursday, January 27, 2011

Sewing Up Something Again

Sewing Machine Cover
Heloo...I was at work again. Couldn't keep my fingers from fiddling and I managed to sew up a cover for my sewing machine.I just wanted to take a break from my crochet project and managed to sew up this machine cosy. Now my sewing machine looks cool and cosy. Hope you like the cool blue lacy cover.


































Currently, I am working on a crochet basket, being made from cotton yarn , which I have dyed with natural color/dye. I hope I am able to complete it soon so that I can share it with you all.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Beautiful world

Beautiful World: The Wellington Winter Carnival

In my search for discovering beautiful things around me , the Wellington winter carnival definitely fits in. A beautiful sunny morning , loads of happy people and music around, and the bright and colorful stalls all making it into a picture perfect day. Loads of craftsmen and vendors from in and around Wellington , Nilgiris, had gather to sell and showcase their stuff. Wellington is a quiet little village close to Coonoor with most of its evergreen hills covered wit tea gardens.This beautiful heaven on earth has a beautiful and rich military history to add to its charm.









As I settle down with my cup to tea in my cosy room to share this event with you, all the shouting and noise that filled the air this morning still rings through my ears. A picture perfect setting for a picture perfect event.

I also did my share of buying and bought some beautiful roles of crochet lace and I am really excited about the new projects in which I am going to use them.










I got yards and yards of this gorgeous lace.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Beautiful World

The evening sun




Just sharing a few snaps of the beautiful evening sun. Love the way the sun's rays come from between the hill ranges causing shadows and making the landscape even more beautiful.This little sleepy village basking in the golden light just before the dark covers it.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Cup Cozy or Plant Holder






















Hey hey ..I finally managed to finish one more project dispite the general hustle-bustle at home.And again, I still haven't been able to decide whether this should be a cup cozy or a plant basket.I have chosen these bright firey colors to add some warmth to the living room. Its simple crochet .I have just done the sc stitch and the dc stitch in alternating rows.

Learn how to single crocket dc:click here

Learn how to double crocket dc:click here

Thursday, January 13, 2011

crochet tutorial

For those who would be keen on going through a detailed tutorial of how to crochet the little flower you can get it from attic24.typepad.com. Once you have mastered the flowers let your imagination and creativity run wild and you may just come up with some wonderful things you can do with the little flowers.
Keep reading and posting.

Tutorial for the little crocket flowers

Hi for those of you who would be interested in going through the tutorial for "how to crocket the little flower' you would find it at

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Thisorthat: Inspiration and craft

Thisorthat: Inspiration and craft: "Fuchsia in full bloom.The green inviting sunny hill side.This strikingly beautiful flower has some of the most amazing and brilliant c..."

Inspiration and craft







Fuchsia in full bloom.The green inviting sunny hill side.This strikingly beautiful flower has some of the most amazing and brilliant colours.


A bright and sunny day with some cold breeze blowing down the hillside,down the beautiful Nilgiris tea gardens lining them,just the right setting to inspire me get my hands soiled with a bit of digging and caring for my potted plants and complete my sewing projects . A hot up of tea ,a great movie on in the background got me working and completely forgetting how time goes by.


I am sharing an image of the sewing project I just completed .These two cushion covers inspired by the flowers outside are for my little angle's room.The flowers have been hand painted and then stitched .

A flowery crochet neck piece is wonderful caft idea..my daughter loves it.
A crochet bunch of flowers as a hand band.Some craft ideas for a lazy weekend.

A hike through the untouched Blue mountains

As we woke up in the morning the clouds from the previous night’s rain were still lingering around, and the air being a bit nippy made the m...