what's making me happy!

My new ventured profession as an artist takes up most of my time :)

Every new inquiry, every new order of my hand-painted artwork makes me excited. Shopping and accumulating all my fabric and craft things; then cutting, stitching, measuring, looking into individual requisites and finally painting my bags is what's making me HAPPY! and did i forget marketing it on Facebook and Instagram ;-)

Admiring my final output, packaging it, making it reach the client and getting appreciations is what I am absolutely loving the most.

The business is running small, the product doesn't cost much but it's really satisfying to just creating a happy clientele as of now. Hope to see it grow more! 

Sharing some pictures :) 

Promotional stuff!

A Magpie Robin

Pretty isn't? 'A white-rumped shama' bird

My tags

Painting in process

The backside of tote

wrapped up

Delivered in my self-made paper bags :)

That's my ART space ! Was painting a saree then ...

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 Thank you for all the love and support <3

My Shimla Trip - Day 3 and 4

Continuing my post from my last 'all-girls-hangout-trip' !  

On third day in Shimla, we took our booked cab and went for a city tour. It was good cold and we enjoyed our ride while sightseeing the beautiful places, covered in pine trees and scenic mountains with little houses all over it. We went to a adventure place and did go-karting (super-duper fun!), had awesome food, nibbled a lot, gossiped, laughed and enjoyed ourselves a lot :-)

Day fourth, we went in exploring a local wildlife sanctuary and a place called Naldehra. That was supposedly a golf place. We didn't took the local horse ride, but took a walk instead. It was a nice, green, hilly, chilly place. We had lots of tea and coffee in between of course ;-)

After this, with an overnight bus journey we were back to New Delhi.

Girls should definitely have such experience once. Chucking all responsibility and fear. Having all girls fun and exploring new places, people and food. There's a different kind of bonding one gets into and the fun is incomparable. You learn a lot, outta the comfort zone and come out with a different perspective than before :-)

 

A post of food remains from this trip, that I shall post next.

Meanwhile wishing you all a very great new year ahead. <3

My Delhi-Shimla trip - Day 1 and 2

Hey there,

Post my trip, I got busy in real life and forgot about the blog. Here I am NOW! Lemme finish all my this years updates in the blog.

So me and my friends made an all girls hangout trip to Shimla! It was super awesome! Last min plans, last min shopping, lots of messy hotch potch happenings yet we made it! Had an awesome time in the Shimla-Kalka Toy Train which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage list! Later visited the Mall road, Lakkar Bazaar and, had great food and had lots of fun. Watching and experiencing a new place, different people, super cold weather ... hmmmm nice :-)

ladies day out - 2

our various mood

Me and Archana

A hungry Liza

Appam!

it was yummy! 

the place

Day 2: March 8

At Chennai we had to drop few of my sister's bags for her forthcoming textile exhibition. Also it involved meeting the 4th friend here. So finally we reached the place and my sister's friend greeted us, helped us with the luggage and was kind enough to offer his place for us to freshen up. We had to catch another train same day to reach our final place. In between we had 4 hours. We thought to see a beach which was an hour away but somehow we messed up in communicating with the auto-wallah and finally met my school friend Archana at the nearest mall. [Archana is a very old and dear friend of mine from school. We were friends in standard 5th and she went off in transfer. There was a long gap and later we got connected from facebook and since then I had waited to meet her] 

From there we went for a Kerala lunch of Appam. Appam is traditional Kerala food made from  fermented rice batter and coconut milk. It was Yum! Meeting Archana afer ages was strange and a nice feeling.  We talked all kind of nonsense and old days. We were kids then still memories were good fresh. :-) it was a very short meet and I promised her to meet again in Chennai when I'm back. Suddenly I see my watch and damn we were late to catch our train. We got back to room took our bags and were off to Railways Station. We ran and got the train in last min. Phew! 

Till now we have only been travelling and running .. ! 

Tomorrow morning we'd reach Ernakulam at 3.00 am!


to be continued ... 

ladies day out -1

Hey folks,

I know I know, I again took a long break from blogging but then there were so many adventures going on with life. Wildlife charity exhibitions, crazy friends hangouts, Jungle trip-outs and the one I'm sharing is right now is a out-of-my-comfort-zone, crazy, risky and one hell out of a adventurous trip. 

a dreaming me ...

This part of my life is called 'CrazY'   !!

A year back three girls decide to go on a trip to meet a fourth girl and continue the journey to new places. Again they plan this year but unfortunately two of them got busy and were unable to make it. The rest two are dissapointed as they wanted to go out desperately out of their usual routines and experience the new. Their tickets were done and not spoiling their mood further they made their mind to finally make the trip. Four ladies travelling in India sounded good but two did not.

There was a little worry, anxiety and tension going on with me, yet we managed to overcome it with some planning, management and above all 'Excitement'! India is not a very travel friendly place especially for women. But nevertheless we decided to be warrior queens and went ahead. 

So finally the plan was Bhubaneswar to Chennai (I had to attend my sister's textile exhibition. For that I had to drop two of her bags there)- Chennai to Ernakulam- Ernakulam to Chennai then back to our city.

Day 1:
We started our journey from Bhubaneswar to Ernakulam (Cochin). We had a nice time gossiping and eating all junk food that are sold in the trains and in between stations. :-) We missed our third friend because we three were quite close and  used to have lots of fun together. Anyways we moved on. We had loads of luggage so keeping an eye on it we slept off. It was an overnight journey and we had to get down at our station around 9 am.

The pictures show liza and me and the scenery experienced on a typical train journey in India. :-)

to be continued ... 

Love

Tanuja :-)