Enjoy the little things

                                                          

My motto for life - "Enjoy the little things".. In these busy days, in the rat race to achieve the goals, we tend to forget the little things in our life.. I loved this ever since I came across this line.. This has been the theme for this arrangement.. The cacti & pots are made from paper.. The green plants are miniature version of the snake plant & zig-zag cactus. The pots are curtain holders which I picked from walmart in my recent US trip..painted them white & kept miniature paper flowers..The shelves were made from the cardboard wrapped in a left over cloth from my dress..

Closer look..

Miniature cacti

  My neighbor has lot of cacti in her garden. I always wonder why some one puts in a lot of effort in growing something like cactus. But, she has shown me the flowers and I was surprised to see the beauty of those..those soft, bright, silky petals.. I couldn't wait much to add these to my paper garden.

Even the crate was made from paper..

Here is a pic with the original counterparts..

 And the mess I create along the way -

Quilling cherry branch

 

Well.. this one is there in my mind for the past one year. We happened to go for cherry picking last summer near SFO. It was my first such activity and I was astonished looking at the various shades of cherries.. I almost forgot it until a friend of mine talked about a cherry tree in the park near my house.

Here goes my quilling version of a cherry tree branch

A closer look at the leaves..The branch is an actual cherry tree branch that I plucked from the park ;)

Cacti for birthday

                                        

 Some miniature cacti & a rose bouquet for a friend who has shown the beauty of cactus !

Punch craft bouquets

 Here are 6 bouquets that I made using punch-craft

Happy Independence day

 

My love for cakes

 

My 4th version of miniature bakery.. I got hooked onto box art these days.. Prepared the shelves from scratch :)

After a long search, I zeroed down on this caption, which aptly suits me

Bakery - 3.0

This is my 3rd bakery arrangement. The initial one was a simple sweet box. The second one was a card board that I made for fitting in the miniature cakes and decorated with a cake box cover. I didn't quite like the overshadowing of colors and decided to make a simple rack and here it is.

 The mess behind this -

Birthday gift

                                      

                                                 Gift for a dear friend on her birthday !

Miniature Chair set

 

For the past many days, I was planning to make a miniature patio/balcony.. Here goes a set of chairs for my miniature garden.. Made with floral wire and white card stock

Quilling yellow flowers

I was actually doing these yellow flowers for some other project. But, ended up here :)

In my balcony, while the sun is rising, with a hot cup of coffee, with my quilling flowers by my side..
Here goes my feelings -

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Miniature roses

Yet again, this wooden piece was from my recent US trip. It might be clear (with this & from my previous posts) what kind of shopping I'm interested in :)

 This is how I use my laptop in the weekends :)

Miniature tulips

Got this little glass bottles from walmart in my recent US trip..Here comes my first miniature tulips :)

Red double-swirling flower

Here comes a simple flower in the pot. Just tried arranging left overs from a previous project

Forget-me-not in a pot

The world is getting shattered with corona. You open news paper or a mobile phone, it is the bad news that is pouring in..If I fail to come out of this mood, I'm sure to go into depression.  As always, quilling is my savior.
Here comes old wine in new bottle. I bought these terracotta pots from my recent trip to US and i'm longing to use them somehow..so, I took these already quilled flowers and stemmed them..added 4 leaves and placed in the pot :)

Tulips for wedding

Here comes a quilling frame, for my brother & sister-in-law on their wedding.
Happy married life Koushik & Swapna !

Quilling Miniature Bakery

                          

Hurrayyy !! My miniature bakery is finally ready.. I've made many cakes since I started quilling. Some were given away as gifts..And the ones that are left behind were poorly treated so far..I've reserved one IKEA shadow box for these little creatures..If you notice closely, I've put in my miniature teddy as well inside :)
Here is what my miniature bakery offers - Candies,  Teddy,  Cup of Coffee,Womens' day exclusive cake,  Choco Delight, Cup-cakes, Rich chocolate cream etc etc..

Here is the front view..It is very difficult to click the details with the glass on..

The bloom shop

Here is my latest version of an earlier florist shop. It makes me feel really sad to see these miniature flower pots being exposed to dust & dirt. I've got a shadow box frame from my last visit to IKEA and thought of moving these pots inside the shadow box. The existing shop doesn't fit. So, I had to make another one out of card stock and arrange these flowers inside it. With the help of my younger son, we named this as "The bloom shop".. I'm so glad that my miniatures are safe and dust free.

Miniature quilling pot and flowers

Here comes one more miniature paper quilling flower pot with flowers...'ve made this pot long ago and just left it like that..When I was looking into left overs of previous projects, I came across these little yellow quilling rolls, which I think were supposed to be flower's pistil..Thought of using them to fill up this pot.
When we went out recently, I've helped my DH to pick this mug for me ;) So, sweet I'm..Right?
See, how my pot looks by its side..

Miniature paper cake

Here is a miniature cake..my favorite recipe (color)..I've made couple of these earlier and they went out of my miniature bakery as gifts..So, I've made one for myself. It is almost the size of a tea light candle..Here is another variant with the candle lit..