Quilt sets

Finished making 2 quilts/ throw sets. Pictures coming soon.....

Throw

Started making a throw/ quilt for a friend's baby shower. This time I added my embroidered tag into the stitch.

Play-doh

Having fun playing with my daughter and her play-doh 

Home

A quick sketch to congratulate my dear friends on their new home!

Dino egg cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese whipped frosting topped with mud (ground chocolates) and eggs (jellybeans)

Dino cake

Completed Dinosaur cake.....size is good enough for 15 -20 single serves. (Scroll down for details)

------Making-----

Drawing Dinosaur templates on paper

Cutting out templates

This one below was with less wastage

The second one was cuter....and who doesn't like to eat leftover cake!

Cakes cut and shaped

Crumb Frosted

    

Final frosting

Finished off the cake with some candy melts and chocolate chips

Quilling and chocolate

Quilled fish

Chocolate nest with jellybean eggs

Getting ready for Dino birthday party

My nephew is going to be celebrating his birthday this Sunday with a Dinosaur bash. I was working on templates for banner and cake today.

Made rangoli today for Kalash Pujan at friend's new home

Pink wildflowers

Today's artwork is a digital painting. I did this on my phone using Ayrun watercolor app

Turtles on demand from my 3 year old. She dictated the designs on each one :)

Quick hairstyles clipart

Hummingbird

An attempt to improve upon yesterdays hummingdoodle artwork.
I finished up the pen work and took it to our Art club's monthly contest. Happy that I won third
place!!

Hummingdoodle

Cute canvases

Michaels had their lowest prices of the season sale; I bought 3 little canvases for the price of 1. These are 4 inches by 5 inches. I also bought the small laser cut ply shapes and put together these 3 in acrylic paint with a satin finish. I think they would look lovely in any baby's room!

Pinwheel Birthday Party

Last week was spent mostly trying to get ready for my daughter's birthday party. Thanks to springtime, we planned the birthday party in a park......and decided on pinwheels as the theme.

I sent out invitations with moving pinwheels on them (Evite).

Then came the menu....sandwiches or wraps?? Neither...I made pinwheels! Pinwheels with Lavash bread rolled with cream cheese and hummus fillings. They were a hit at the party!

I also decided to make cake at home, and spent some time practicing piping the frosting. I did not want to get overly ambitious with the cake decorations...so I decided on paper decoration (not touching the frosting). I found cute little working pinwheels in Michaels during Easter sale. I made a bunting out of card stock paper  and tied it up between two pinwheel poles.

My daughter wanted a pink cake, so I went for a strawberry cake mix (Betty Crocker) and made it eggless considering a few friends who prefer not to eat eggs. I made a whipped cream icing and used cream cheese for stabilization. It turned out to be very light and yumm (had a hard time to get by daughter away from the frosting before it even got on the cake!)

I iced the cake to be a complete coral color with slightly darker coral colored border made of dots (to match my daughters dress)

My daughter is able to read and sometimes write her name now, so she wants to read it on the cake....which meant it should not be written in a fancy writing but in block letters :) Here is the final product of all this prep just before we cut it!

 

I also made some mini cupcakes, and stuck some of the pinwheels into them

I wanted to make a bunting garland to hang somewhere in the park....to match the bunting on the cake. Instead I found these cute flower card stock cutouts at Michaels and decided to use them. I added a few doilies and made a long garland using my sewing machine.

A little friend of my daughter's turned exactly 1.5 years old on the day of our park party, so I made a small cake for her to cut. 

 

And lastly, I just wanted to add the pictures of the birthday cakes that I made on my little one's actual birthday

Scenery on a magnetic board

I did todays artwork on a kids magnetic board. Pretty sure it will be wiped away super soon :)

Happy Easter!

Paper and  clothespin craft for Easter!