Summer Garden

Hello Friends. 

You know that Indian Summers are very hot. The temperatures are unbearable sometimes. The peak period in April and May till mid of June are really difficult to manage. 

If you have a small garden with not much big trees for shade, then it it really difficult to manage the smaller plants in pots. I have many causalities during summer in spite of taking proper precautions.

Well this year, I managed to keep the casualty level to bare minimum.

Here are some pics from my garden this summer:

My favorite Bougainvillea. It starts flowering during summer months and continues almost through out the year, since in South India, we have higher temperatures even in winters. I have now left with two colours pink and orange. I want to buy some more colours this year.

A closer look at the blooms here. They flower profusely, if we give them proper food and water.

Here comes the climbing beauty-creeper of bay pink and white roses. They bloom in bunches if allowed to climb properly onto some base. I had them climb my roof at one time and we had so many beautiful bunches of these roses, that many visitors would purposefully visit my house just to look at them. 

As of now, I have them just up on a pole. This season, I will again let them climb onto my roof.

Well this is the summer queen Jasmine. This is the double flower. It has two to three flowers on upon another in a single flower. This flowers less when compared to the ordinary once. But  the size of the flower and its fragrance is really good.

Here is my mudda Nandivardhanam. It flowers profusely and is used for puja. It gives off a very mild sweet fragrance.

Watch on for more on my blog....

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Easy to make Simple Birthday Card

Hi there!

Hope you are all doing well. Its very hot and sultry here. Though, monsoon had entered India we still don't have much rainfall in my place. I am waiting for the first few showers to revamp my garden.

My new batch of students are here. We have started our classes way back in May. But because of Eid, we had very few classes. Now after the Eid, we are on with our classes, full fledged. But boy, this climate hot and humid is really a bother.

Ok, enough of my ranting now. Today I am going to post a very simple Birthday Card.

It was very simple card to make. Also I like simple and easy cards. I want the background space free and not cluttered or decked up with this and that which makes cards look very crowded and over decked. 

I folded an A4 sized Ivory card stock into half. I had some stickers with me which were gifted by a friend long back. One day, while checking on my stash, I unearthed a bunch of these stickers. So I used them along with the plaid Washi tape in pink colour to match the flowers. Then, I stamped on the sentiment using black ink. 

Well my stamping ability is almost zero. I need to experiment with it. But they are so messy. So though I have so many ideas and projects going on in my mind, I don't have the energy or time to put them into action.

One of these days, I do need to. Because, I have so many cards lying around all done, accept for stamping.

Here is the list of materials, I have used.

Materials Used:

Ivory card stock A4 size
3D Stickers of Vase and the Flower
Plaid Washi tape
Sentiment stamp
Black  Inks
Dimensional tape and glue.


So Until next time...Hope I can post frequently...


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