Messy-to-Classy, Recycled calendar, Thread storage ideas!! :)

Hope you had a nice weekend .  This is my first Messy-to-Classy update for year 2015 . And apart from my clean-up,  I also have some nice thread storage ideas to share with you all :)

So what did I do this month? I cleared my craft room desk which usually becomes a dumping place for any kind of paper work, crafting stuff, stationery and sometimes unwanted grocery bills .
This is what its state was since 15 days with some or the other junk finding its way onto my work space .

After few days, some more clutter

This is how it looks now!!

I like seeing it whenever I visit the room . Of course, it gets messed up again when I start crafting :)


Recycle:
This is a wooden perpetual calendar which we got as one of the New Year gifts from a well known watch company in India after we bought loads of wrist watches as gifts for relatives.

Anshita designed this cute picture for me with my blog header and titled as ‘My Craft Room’ :)  Isn’t it a lovely one?

Thread Storage ideas :
I am glad to share a post about ‘Thread storage ideas’  from Pam of  'Threading my way' .  She is an accomplished seamstress and loves gardening . She also hosts ongoing link parties under different categories where you can see variety of projects with tutorials from beginner to advanced levels . Just visit her; you are sure to get inspired .

There is a slight change that I am going to make to this link party to make it simple .  I will open a link every month on the sign-up page itself . I will remove the restriction of date and you may place link to as many posts you write for that respective month . Just click here or the ’Messy-to-Classy’ tab . You can sign-up and post any time .

I would be glad to know about you feedback on my craft space and the recycled piece even if you are not joining the party :)

Have a crafty week ahead!
Preeti

Miscellaneous: Sulking, award, harvesting, boring

Hello!!

Its been quite a while I have not posted .  I hope you will put up with my ramblings .

Raj went to Seattle (U.S.) last week and I was sulking for few days at home . I terribly missed him and I was going through emotional disturbance . My mom daily called me twice a day and I cried all the time talking to her . Anshita took great care of me by giving emotional support and playing with me . She is a lovely and caring daughter . I was not like her and was always a difficult child for my mom .

I felt so bad that I did not feel like having coffee or any food at all . I felt more lonely after Anshita left for school . Then Raj asked me to forcefully make a cup of coffee and that we will have it on google hangouts . It was the first time I came on hangouts else I am a camera shy person and prefer chat and phone call instead . It was past dinner time for him .  Then started my regular morning coffee sessions on hangouts with him and I came back to normal routine .

Then, what happened......
My mom stopped calling me thinking that I am done with my tantrums and that calling once in 2-3 days is fine .
Anshita was relieved to see that her mom is not going mad crying the whole day .
But Raj continued with the coffee hangouts . It is sinful for him to now break the session .

So there goes the story . Slowly I picked up on my blog reading too .

Also, I got a blog award from Anna of Annasimplecrochet. Thank you , Anna!! but sorry dear I am very bad at doing Q&A homework . I am so grateful that you remembered me:) And thank you for being always with me since we met on the blogland .

I harvested around 40 cherry tomatoes from my small container plant . They tasted sweet! I did not look after the plants and have not fed them any compost for past one month , still they rewarded me with a bountiful harvest .

As for the boring part, I am making this doily with disconnected color scheme . The colors aren't as per my taste .

I have few friends joining the Messy-to-Classy link party and I need to put up first post on it next week . I was in no mood to post this month but seeing my lovely friends standing up for me , I decided it would be very unprofessional and bad on my part not to post about it . Hopefully, by 26th I will have my January link ready.

Have a nice weekend!!
Preeti

P.S. : Needless to say, Raj broke his coffee session today morning and instead went out to dinner with his colleagues . I am back to my sulking for a day again and he is repenting on why did he trade 30 min. of coffee session with 2 hours of consoling.

Year 2015 ....what I am upto ?

2014 saw few changes in me. The highlights being - I started cooking more, I formally started designing my crochet patterns.

Come new year, and I have all the excuses to say that resolutions are meant for breaking and therefore I don't make any. I thought I was wise and smart. But I have observed that if I list out some task, I complete quite a few. If I don't, I miss most of them. After seeing my blogger friends updating their resolution/goals/missions, I decided to formally list down mine as well. So, here is quite a big list, some of which, I already started working on.

S.no.	Goal/resolution	Type	Status
1	Design min. 1 cross stitch and 1crochet pattern for Indian magazine	One-time	Started
2	Analyse atleast 2 international magazines for submission	Ongoing
3	Write one article/story per month for Newspaper/magazine and submit	Ongoing
4	Upload the written novel	One-time
5	Complete next novel	One-time
6	Create Goodreads profile and update frequently	Ongoing
7	Read 2books a month	Ongoing	Started
8	Donate more	Ongoing
9	Think less, worry less	Ongoing
10	Organize more	Ongoing	Started
11	Recycle more	Ongoing
12	Increase exercise and walk time	Ongoing
13	Make crochet wearables for Anshita	One-time
14	Put some efforts in gardening	Ongoing
15	Play thrice a week with Anshita	Ongoing	Started
16	Learn and make more sewing and patchwork items	Ongoing
17	Get used to paying bills	Ongoing
18	Learn and cook few more baking items	Ongoing
19	Find out more about palaeontology carreer	Ongoing
20	Learn amigurumi	Ongoing
21	Learn Tunisian crochet	Ongoing
22	Do mending and repair work promptly	Ongoing
23	Reduce xx Kgs (too shy to reveal the count :))	One-time	Started
24	Smile often, be more social	Ongoing	Started
25	Reply to comments promplty	Ongoing	Started
26	Write at least 2 blogposts per week	Ongoing	Started
27	Target at least one pending home-decor/fitting each month	Ongoing
28	Learn about finances/investments from Raj - one item per month	Ongoing
29	Learn Adobe illustrator to draw crochet patterns	One-time	Started
30	Delete unwanted images from iPad,phone and laptop.	Ongoing

On 25th and 26th Dec, after 6 years, we had been to 'Ramoji Film city' in the outskirts of city. It is world's largest film studio complex spread in 1666 acres. It was fun. I still need to shortlist the photos as they are spread across two phones and a camera.

We also did shopping but what attracted me outside the flower nursery was this mini compact seed packet - 39 varieties and a slip of paper with information just for 150 INR (2 USD). I had been spending a lot on buying seed packets online which is just waste of money on packaging. I have to separate them in little pouches and Anshita did the labelling task for me :)

What I cooked last week- 3 special items but took picture of only two.

Matar Kachori : These are balls stuffed with coarsely ground greenpeas and some spices .

Gajar ka Halwa : A sweet made of Carrot, milk, sugar and few more items.

I am working on two crochet projects, one large and one doily. I hope I can share one of these by next week. My link party 'Messy-to-Classy' is open to join any time. Just check the top menu bar for more information.

Have a nice day!
Preeti :)

Messy to Classy link party !!!!!

Thank you, my dear friends, for your wishes on my last post about my published piece in the magazine :)

Few days back, I mentioned here about my plans to start a link party on reorganizing/arranging your craft spaces. After getting your feedback and great tips from my blogger friends about link parties, here I am ready with my introductory post.

It took me some time to learn about linky widget and creating grab button etc. I have added a tab on the menu bar, extreme right, where I have given information and signing up details. 

Please click on the tab or click here to sign up for the party. If you want me to add any more details, please let me know.

Let the ideas pour in :)

Thank you for visiting !!

Preeti 

A happy start to 2015 !!! :)

Happy 2015 to all my dear friends !!! :)

I am so happy to share with you that my new year was indeed a happy one because, I..... got......

FEATURED !!!   

in  Anchor Needle 'N' Thread magazine ....YAY!!! :)

This is the crochet collar I had submitted and it got featured in the Jan-March, 2015 issue of Anchor Needle 'N' Thread magazine, India. I can only share a partial snapshot because of copyright.

This is a quarterly magazine of needlework - crochet, cross stitch, embroidery etc. published by CoatsCrafts India. It is published in both English and Hindi languages.

Thanks to all of you for keeping up my crafting spirits high and for the inspiration that I constantly draw from you ! :)

Happy new year again and wish you a happy, healthy, prosperous and crafty life ahead :)

Preeti