Wonderful Wednesday Update

Wow, can't believe half the week is already gone!! My weekend was a totally AT HOME weekend, except for V's PTA.
We had to complete 2 assignments over the weekend. First was to make something with coir or coconut shell. Options were aplenty no doubt, but did I have the time to finish? So, I took permission from her teacher to just create a chart with pictures of various items made out of coir/coconut shell.
Next project was to create a scrap book of TamilNadu. Now that was quite interesting. We had some colored A4 sheets and some hand-made papers, which we used for this. We loved putting these projects together.

Next V and I (yes she's a part of all my projects these days) decided to bake some cookies. It was to be chocolate choco chip cookies.

Oooh they were absolutely divine. V was totally thrilled that her cookies came out so well :)

And guess what, I actually FINISHED May cottage. I cannot believe it myself

I completed it in less than 3 weeks. This is definitely my fastest finish ever!!! Now I am going to take a short break from cottages and work on my seashells for a week or 2.

Looking back at the weekend, looks like I've spent a lot of time with V. Wow, it was absolutely great. One of my cousins says that these days V's like my best friend. Because, I do everything with her, and every time I step out (other than to work of course) V's with me, haha.

And guess what, V wants to start her first cross stitch project. A few months back, we saw a cross stitch kit for 8yrs and above. I apparently told her then that I'd get it for her when she's old. She turns 8 this month. So today morning she "gently" reminds me of my promise. Haha, so can you guess what my birthday gift for her is going to be?! ;)

So dear friends, with that I take leave today. Till we meet again.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir

Mid-week update

I've decide to call my updates just that.. mid-week updates :)

The weekend was another stay-at-home weekend, where we cooked a bit and stitched a bit. Was lot of fun just to laze around and not do too much.

On saturday we had a nice dinner with Rotis and Reshmi kofta curry, recipe by Sanjeev Kapoor

It was a fat-laden one, with a lot of cashew, fresh cream, paneer and yoghurt :) So, needless to say it tasted absolutely yumm

V again wanted to cook something. So we decided to bake some cup cakes and try our hands at frosting and "decorating" if you may call it that

I think the initial attempt was not bad at all. I used vanilla and mint butter cream frosting. I did not have green food color, so used yellow for the mint. For the "art" we added some cocoa to the left over frosting and used that up too.

We then caught up on a movie called "No one killed Jessica". This is based on a true story and was an awesome movie

On the stitchy front, I have a fair amount of progress on May

So, that is all the happenings from this front today. Till my next update..Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir :)