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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Guest room prints

Digi, I have missed you!!!
I did these prints today for our Guest bedroom. The size is 16x12 and the frames they'll go in are 20x16. I print at Costco as the bigger prints are way cheaper than anywhere else. They'll be ready tomorrow. Can't wait!

I had started a baby book for Mehul that just got printed. He is now reading so it should still be useful :)

Labels: cards, Digi-Scrapping

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Monday, December 07, 2009

Recap

Ok you readers :-) I guess I should fess up what has been keeping me busy -

My sisters family visited us in September. This visit had been postponed because of me going to India for a month for work in June. So before she visited, we completely re-did the guest bedroom. This kept us busy through out August. I am really quite happy with the way this room has been done. Exactly what I wanted. There will be pictures, I promise.
They visited in mid-september and stayed till mid-october. We took them to Disney!! They have a 7yr old DD and it was just perfect. We were there for 6 days and had a great time. Went to Sea World, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. The weather was good for the most part, the lines were short. It was a great time to visit. The only thing was I couldn't ride but still made the most of it. We also took them to visit Niagara Falls and New York city. Both long trips but they really enjoyed it.
After she went back we slowly got into a routine. The long trips completely tired me off. That combined with first trimester tiredness, I was just doing the bare minimum. The whole October-November is a blur. I developed a great deal of nausea and completely lost my appetite. Now I am in second tri and getting my energy back. So there is the news :-) From the moment of positive test, I've kept a pregnancy blog. You are welcome to read in your spare time.
There you have it. I will be back with pictures! Made a jewelry piece this weekend I'm very proud of. Can't get a good pic of it to show off the sparkle but I'll post what I have.

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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Back!!

I will be shocked if anyone still comes to check this blog. I will try to blog regularly again. I have some news that I can't share here yet but it is the news that is keeping me busy :-)

Since the closet transformation, we've undertaken building my craft room (Finally!). Hopefully it will be in decent enough shape to take pictures of soon.

I just finished re-doing all the images for this blog. Way too tiring of a job. I'll be back.

Labels: Blog Stuff

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Master closet - Transformed

DH started working on this when I was in India. We had discussed doing something with the closet and I had done sketches and started a design in IKEA design builder to come up with ideas last year. Nothing concrete because we wanted to explore all the options. He did the research while I was gone and started building it.
Prior to this, we just had a single rail running all the way through with a wire rack to keep clothes. I don't think I have a picture of that but it's pretty standard in builder houses in our area.

It is DONE!! My dream closet is done.

This is the best possible shot from the outside. The right wall is completely mine, the back wall is his but there is some of my stuff there, the left wall is 50/50.

Right wall
My work tops and bottoms on the right. The main dresser has my indian dresses, night suits, workout clothes, t-shirts, jeans, etc. The thin side unit has undies, socks.
More work tops on the left bottom, kurtas etc. on the top.

Left wall
His coats & t-shirts on top, my sarees on bottom

Center wall
His shirts on top, pants on bottom.

There are 2 corner units that can't be seen easily in these pictures. You can see one in the first picture. Many of the drawers are empty and there is about 2 feet of space between the closet and ceiling where I'm planning on putting some baskets with seasonal clothes. There are few thin jewelery drawers that I can use. I have a few jewelery boxes that hold some of my pieces,

Well that was our latest project. DH wanted it to be a complete surprise but he needed my input LOL! I love the way it turned out.

Labels: Home Improvements

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Thanks, all. For sure, DH and DS are missing me. DS is sick and it was heart breaking to hear his voice on the phone. I will be sooo glad to be back home. I am even looking forward to the flight - normally I hate it. LOL The only life-saver has been VOIP phone which we've used like anything too keep in touch. Without it I would have been depressed.

Raychill - I remember that! We must be stitching-sisters :)

This morning I sent my final laundry for the week and it suddenly hit me. This is the beginning of my trip back. Co-workers are taking me to dinner today so I will pack tomorrow night. Checkout of the hotel friday morning, catch the flight to Delhi in the evening after work. This weekend I'll be in Delhi and time just FLIES when I'm there. Sunday night is my flight back home!!!

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Monday, July 06, 2009

Stitching

An entire month without any posts. I thank you to visit after such long absences from blogging. So much is going on in my life that I don't feel like spilling all of that here -- except for crafting, ofcourse. I love making craft related posts.

Quick update - I am in India currently on the tail end of my trip. It has been fine except missing DH and DS too much. This time I got the time to do all those things I want to do on when I come to India but never have time for - like taking long walks in the parks, going window shopping (and shopping), going to movies, just sitting at home (hotel) and hanging out with family, and so on. But it has been a long 4 weeks without them. It would have been so much better if they were able to come but seeing that we just visited 6 months ago, it didn't make sense. DH wasn't able to get vacation so soon and for me it is work during weekdays anyways.

So glad I brought stitching with me on this trip. It was a last minute decision to throw in something just in case I didn't feel like knitting. Turns out I haven't knit at all and have been stitching away :) Here is a before and after of my long time WIP - Tradewinds

Last update - Oct 22, 2003. Eeeek!!

4th July, 2009

I haven't filled in the mermaid face and body portion because I want to do it over-one and the printout of the chart that I have is terrible. So I moved on to the center medallion. I am so loving this project right now. It's funny how I don't stitch for long time (last time I stitched was during olympics) and then when I do get back to it I wonder WHY in the world I wasted all that precious stitching time? LOL! Just a quick overview of what I did hobby-wise in the last 7-8 months that I didn't stitch --
1 month vacation in India
15 novels (Stephanie Plum Series), one or two other novels
Knitted a pair of Socks, started 2 more socks. Made 2 scarves (maybe 3?)
Few sets of jewelery - at least 3 Necklaces, many earrings, bracelets and stitching fob (for Erin), 3 Key fobs
Few PJ bottoms for DS, a skirt for me, a skirt and a DRESS for a friend
I did stitch in Jan for a few weeks on Thistle Stop

Anyhow, I will be back in the US on July 13th. Just a week left, so much still to do - work wise as well as shopping. See you later :)

Labels: Stitching

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Quick update

I will be going to India in a few days for work purposes. Life is quite hectic right now. I will be there for 5 weeks. Will be back in the middle of July. There is some vacation time in there but mostly it will be work work work.

I also wanted to show the London Photobook that I've ordered. I made it using ArtsCow interface i.e. it was quickly put together on the site. Here is a peek!

London Photobook ** Requires Microsoft Silverlight.

Labels: Digi-Scrapping, Photobook

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