Welocme to the world of
creativity!
Hope you all are in a
festive mood.DIWALI! The festival of lights. You can see diyas,
crackers, sweets and decorations everywhere. Even I was busy
decorating my home for Diwali.
When I came back home from
my native, after a short vacation; I was surprised seeing the changes
that has happened to my home. The complete house has been
renovated,new paint ,new curtains, new cushions....Ohhh! This new
look encouraged me to decorate my home and I have added some of my
creativity to make it more beautiful.
This diwali, I would like
to share some of my ideas to decorate your home using the same old
thechniques called recycling. Till my previous post, I have been
mainly using clothes for my creations; and here after I'll introduce
some of amazing crafts made of papers, used bottles, and jars. One
more thing I want to tell you is; before dumping anything into the
waste bin, look at it with a creative eye. You can defenitely make
wonderful decorative items out of it and also save both money and the
environment.
My first recycled craft -
A wall hanging!
Here I have used the paper
quilling technique .Good idea to recycle the old newspapers and
magazines.
Take some colorful papers
from old magazines.Make paper sticks out of it by rolling each one of
them from one corner to the other and apply glue at the end. Make
paper quillings by rolling these paper sticks in clockwise
direction. Now paste the quillings on a wooden board or frame or
thick card board and its ready! We can make variety of designs using
these kinds of quillings.
Instead of paper
quillings, you can also try pasting some of your favorite photos from
the albums and make a creative gallery wall.Nice memories on the
wall!
Next is Flowers!decorate
your home with flowers.They are always beautiful to see and creat a
happy atmosphere.
Here I have used A4 sheet
papers to creat a flower. If you want, you can use newspapers too.Cut
the papers into 4 equal parts and try to make cone or funnel shape
out of it(use it as petals). Now take a round cardboard piece and
paste the petals in a circular direction one after the other. Once
the outer part is completed, fill the inside area in the same way and
colour it according to your taste. Try to make variety of flowers in
different shapes and sizes.It will make your home really beautiful.
Lamp shade! Can you guess
what the material is?
Its a plastic bottle!You
may have seen lot more videos of making diyas in this diwali
occassion. So I thought of sharing something different. Recycling
plastic bottles into lamp shades. Isn't it cool? Try to make it.Its
very simple and inexpesive.
Take any juice bottle and
cut it using a knife according to the bulb size. Remove the bottom
part. Using scissors make the edges smooth. Decorate the bottles
using paint or pasting sequences or making small holes. You can use
it for normal bulbs or CFL or LED lights.It looks good at night time.
So what are you waiting
for?
Party all night...party
all night...party all night....WE DO PARTY ALL NIGHT!! ;)
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a thumbs up!HAPPY DIWALI.....:)
