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Birthday Party decor in Pink & Pastel

July 4, 2020 naush

I love decor dressing birthday parties. However, decorating little girl parties is much more fun and easy than attempting boy parties. There are plenty of limitations in decorating for boys than with girls.

For instance,

Theme boys – From Jurassic park to Toystory (naturally the super heroes of Avengers is an easy catch)

Theme girls – From Cinderella to Pocahontas to Elsa and all the fairies and Princesses in between 🙂

Colors boys – I love using greens, blues and reds generally. These colors fill a room without much effort.

Colors girls – Almost every color in a rainbow and MORE !!

This birthday party decor request came on very short notice but since the mom, only had a few 10-year-olds joining the party – it was doable. The food was catered by another company and we personalized fancy diaries/journals as party favors.

The brief was “Elegant – pastels – pinks”

I made these giant paper flowers and dotted the ceiling with a few handmade tissue pompoms. Young Inshirah loved the giant flowers. She decided to decorate her bedroom wall with them with the doily bunting in between them, after the party was over.

Having had worked in the hospitality industry for numerous years, one key aspect I learnt in banqueting is the relevance of having a pretty skirting around the table to enhance the shabby chic serving platters and tableware even before setting eyes on the actual food.

Over the years I have never given up on the humble banner/bunting. It still remains a focal point and surely sets the stage, followed by color coordinated balloons or streamers or pompoms.

I would love to hear from you about how you set up birthday party rooms in your home.

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Wall of fame – Art on Pizza Boxes.

June 26, 2020July 3, 2020 naush

I love upcycled crafts. Just knowing I can and I have contributed in some minuscule way to salvage trash into anything functional or decorative, brings immense joy.

Pizza boxes have been my easy and cheap canvas option for years. I have used various mixed media art techniques to complete these projects.

Following are the links to the tutorials of how I created these mixed media projects :

Here are some of my other takes on the previous pizza box projects :

https://doodlebuddies.net/2019/01/23/upcycle-pizza-box/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2014/06/17/upcycled-pizza-box-into-mixed-media-canvas/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2013/10/25/pizza-box-canvas/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2013/07/17/recycle-pizza-box-and-toilet-rolls-tutorial/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2013/07/05/pizza-box-turned-to-shadow-box/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2011/06/15/gift-box-pizza-box-recycled/

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Furniture ( Wooden Chest) Makeover

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 naush

One of the first projects I tackled in my new home was the chests’s that we bought from Dubai. We bought three of them through cargo. They are solid wood but have moved several homes domestically and internationally, hence the the scrapes and scratches.

It was a labor intensive project and time consuming but the results are fabulous.

I hope to transform the new home into a cross between coastal and shabby chic. With that in mind, we bought grey sofas and grey chairs for the dining table from Teppermans. I must confess, I am not pleased with the sofas, as I find the cushions, not firm enough, also not having a velcro patch under the cushions to keep them fastened, makes them slide out of position. Rather annoying.

The chairs are fabulous though.

Back to the project at hand.

After a good sanding and clean up, we gave the chests, three coats of paint. The wait time was not as too long. But the time between 2nd and 3rd coat is longer. Once they were done, I decided against distressing them and straight away, went into completing the project with two coats of varnish.

I used the roller for the paint and brush for the varnish.

Here is the end result.

The lounge room is still not completely presentable. And just incase, your wondering, why there are white sheets on the sofa – 2 REASONS. I have 3 teenager sons and 7 cats who use the lounge sofas more than we do !!

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Dubai, Overseas Trips, Something inbetween

I’m back .. my story so far ..

May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 naush

Its been over a year since my last post. Alot has happened in the past year. Alot of blessings, a few tragedies but eventually we were all hit by the silent twister called Covid 19.

I won’t bore you with the details, but we moved to Toronto, CA., in the summer of 2019.

Dubai has/had been our home for nearly 27 years.

The transition was not an easy one, as expected. Its hard to uproot a tree and just place it elsewhere. New surroundings, new environment, new people, new culture, new everything. But I’ve always believed that CHANGE is always for the best. We tend to live in our comfort zone – its easy, it convenient, but its NOT progress. In order to progress, one must move. One must adapt to change. Change can be within or outwardly as well.

In order to make such a drastic move, called for immense planning and organization. Months of endless garage sales to dispose our furniture, tons of kitchen ware, garden ware etc, selling our cars, selling our villas, managing scores of documentation for ourselves and our eight cats. One 40 feet container, 10 suitcases and 8 cat carriers later, we landed in Toronto.

Gosh, how easily I wrote that entire sentence forgoing the millions of incidents, goof ups, episodes of rage, emotional dramas AND confusions, we went through. But I suppose, we all go through those phases. Nothing worthwhile, is found, just lying around. One has to endure, one has to struggle, one has to pay the price of hardships to succeed, as did we.

I will be sharing the story of my cat-travels in another post. But for now, I am counting my blessings. Blessings of being surrounded by love from my children, my husband, my cats and some very good people.

Buying a house, getting our driving license, unpacking 300 cartons, school admissions, university admissions, were some of the larger milestones that we accomplished. We stay in the city of Kitchener now.

Our new home. Our new address. Our new pin code. Bizarre, ain’t it ? Last year this time, we were munching shawarma’s and Hardee’s burgers in Dubai and today, we have become such at-home eaters.

Which brings me to the another new development. I have started uploading videos on my Youtube channel. Presently, becoz its Ramadan, I have been sharing tutorials on Indian dishes. However, I will start posting the link to my Crafts and Diy tutorials here too.

My Youtube Channel – Naush Samama

Getting the house organized has been an ongoing process. We still have cartons stacked in virtually ALL the rooms. But we are getting there. Slow and steady.

There have been a few DIY revamps, that I attempted as well.

Hopefully, I’ll share some of those as well in other posts.

For those of you who are in Dubai or Middle-East, and would like to know what are some of the bigger compromises, that we made in adjusting to the lifestyle here, please feel free to ask in the comments. I will be happy to share them.

Life is good. And happiness is not seeking something. Happiness is being with those whom you love and who love you back equally. May you all find that happiness within you.

Here is a glimpse of some of the few beautiful landscapes, we left behind.

DSC_0003JPG — A glimpse of Sheikh Zayed road from Satwa side.

DSC_0061JPG — The famous – Sheikh Zayed Raod.

DSC_9453JPG — Box Park – the hip happening place to be at.

DSC_9471JPG — Dubai Trade Center used to be the most prominent building, when I came to Dubai nearly 3 decades back.

DSC_9479JPG — That one store which had drastic sales THROUGH OUT THE YEAR !!

DSC_9483JPG — One of the oldest supermarkets in Karama.

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Tutorial – Wreath from a pizza box !

February 21, 2019 naush

Hello friends,

Thank you very much for all your encouragement and well wishes, that you leave in your comments, for the projects I share here. It is a joy to read each one of your messages. Truly humbled.

Tutorial for upcycling pizza box into a wreath

It really breaks my heart to see the amount of cardboard and plastic, in good condition, being dumped.

I love finding ways to reuse, upcycle or repurpose household stuff, especially kitchen ware like plastic bottles, cereal boxes, milk cartons, milk jugs etc.

We have a set tradition of having Pizza from Pizza Hut for Friday lunch (our weekend)

And that’s how I have heaps of pizza boxes !!

Today, I am sharing a simple yet easy way to use the cardboard from the pizza box to make a wreath.

The felt flowers are also handmade. You can find the tutorial to those HERE.

This frame was salvaged from a friend, who was leaving the country and wanted to get rid of it since it was too large and had no glass in the front. Ofcourse, I rescued it.

Here’s the tutorial :

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Link for Tutorial for felt flowers

Black and white wreath (1)

Now for the bunting:

Bunting for wreath

Rubberstamps Bunting and rubberstamping Felt flowers on wreath

The heart shape in the wreath is made with white foam which was packaging material in the box, from a recently bought earphone set. I added a felt heart and a button over it. And voila, it looks lovely !

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I think, its stinkin cute ! I liked it enough to have it hung in the hallway.

Black and white stripes with pops reds and pinks is just so attractive.

I believe, crafters can breath life into any mundane object with their glue guns and some paint 🙂 – One minute that box could have been chugged into the bin but we found a way to make it adorn our walls.

Although, I have designed the frame and wreath with the HOME sentiment, It could be easily replaced with words like Love, faith, friends or names of festivals.

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Romantic Style Mantle Decor

February 12, 2019 naush

Hello friends,

You know I belong to a generation ( Dinosaur period ) where, we jotted down dates on the “Calender” and remembered birthdays of friends, family members and relatives (religiously) and posted greeting cards to them, if they lived abroad, atleast 10 days in advance (postal journey time)

If they stayed in the same city, then “REAL” efforts were made to call them, make them feel special, buy a pretty gift along with a greeting card for them. Things were really simple. Brands were really not something, people thought too much about. Its the thought that matters – is the ideology, I was bought up on.

We had never even heard of Teachers day. Fathers day and Mothers day were the only ‘special days’ we were acquainted with.

I remember, I was in Grade 8, mid 1980s, when one of my friends, who had just returned from holidays in USA, got me a sticker set of fruits which when rubbed, gave off the whiff of bananas, grapes, oranges and lemon and a greeting card for Valentines day.

Valentines day was unheard of in those days, in Kuwait.

Naturally, not having Google around – meant we got ALL our information from books.

I don’t ever remember reading about any valentines day occasion anywhere, but the concept seemed interesting. Especially since we were at an impressionable age where every “long gaze” from the opposite sex, was considered as a ‘crush’ 🙂

Valentines day just gave us all, school-goers, an excuse to share our feelings with our friends. Those were also the days of silly slam books !! Did you have those ?

Truly, those were simple days. Innocent times with no complications like today.

Fast forward to 2019, I find all these barrage of ‘special days’ just a waste. These are reduced to just occasions glorified by the Hallmark -kinda -industries to capitalize on !

There is a long queue of these willy-nilly day declaring including some like, World television day, International day of happiness, World toilet day – Its bizarre due to the fact that more than two billion people don’t have access to proper sanitation.

Having said that, i strongly support any month or day, which brings about awareness of any disease or disorder or mental health state. I have always been an avid supporter for the Breast Cancer month & Autism awareness month

However, I don’t think, we really need a special day to remind our loved ones, how precious they are, how much we value them. My husband taught me, It should be a gesture we provide in our every day-to-day life.

After a recent exhibition, we returned home totally exhausted. I was bone tired and slumped on the couch, barely able to raise my feet. It took two long days of arduous efforts in setting up and dismantling, not one but two stalls for the exhibition.

We decided to leave all the supplies and exhibition material in the car and off load it the following day. I knew all the boys were drained as well hence two of them hit the sack as soon as we got home, but one of my sons, decided to take the reins in his hands and managed to quietly offload the entire load out of the car, all by himself !!

Not only that, he also fed all 11 of our cats – while I was barely cooling off my heals and wondering how I would walk to the kitchen to feed the cats !! These are those little acts of thoughtfulness that carry the reward of mountains in them.

Needless to say, when I did finally pluck myself off the couch from my trans-like zombie state, i realized what he had done for us. I showered him with hugs and my blessings when I found out, how much he went above and beyond the call the duty.

These are things that leave a mark. These are little acts that speak louder than any wrapped up gift.

Coming back to today’s post. . .

For those of you, who may be looking for Valentines day, decor ideas, here’s a small happy and romantic mantle decor which I put together.

Romantic Mantle decor

All the elements on the table are handmade, except the cages, flower pot and white candle stand.

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You can find the links to the tutorial of the above diy projects below :-

Tuna can makeover to candle stand

Puzzle blocks makeover to reversible signs

Frame makeover with twigs

Frame makeover with quilled paper flowers

Romantic table setup2 Valentines day mantle decor 2 I hope you find inspiration in some of my projects and might consider attempting some of them.

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Tutorial – how to upcycle twigs in a frame

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 naush

Hello friends.

I am delighted that I will be sharing this post with Fluster Buster. Infact I am excited that I will be contributing one of my projects every month with Fluster Buster !!

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doodle buddies upcycle twigs and frame craft

I am drawn towards art which serves a purpose and helps the environment as well. Art with found objects like plastic bottles and salvaged wood chunks is so much fun and gratifying too.

I love giving a new lease of life to the forsaken, the forgotten, and the overlooked items lying in the corners of our home.

Old, beat up photo frames are some of my favorite ‘patients’

Today I am using some twigs from my backyard and a picture frame which did not have a backboard and lacked a glass front as well – perfect for this project.

Frame
Glue gun
Spray paint
twigs
washi tape
foam heart embellishments (flowers, leaves, stars or any other embellishments can be used.)
Cardboard (stripes of cardboard for support in the back)
brads

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love the pops of color (reds and pinks) on the mat grey frame.

I believe, crafters can breath life into any mundane object with their glue guns and some spray paint 🙂

This frame is ideal as a handmade gift or perfect to adorn the Valentine days mantle.

I hope you liked this frame and might consider attempting something similar.

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Tutorial – Upcycle Tuna can to a Candle holder

February 2, 2019 naush

Hello friends,

Are you fond of candles ? I love candles and don’t miss any opportunity to buy the ones with a good fragrance – especially the vanilla ones from Ikea.

Tuna can makeover (1)

As much as I love candles, I find, the hardened remnants of the candles after burning, quite annoying. Hence I thought up of a simple solution, to save my candle stands from repeated abuse by the excess wax clumps.

Upcycle tuna can

The tuna cans/containers can hold the candles by themselves or can be placed on the candle stand.

Whats even great is, once the wax hardens in the can/container, it can be easily heated with a lighter to melt the wax !!

Simple – isn’t it ?

So here, I am showing how we can dress up a tuna can.

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I think what I really like about the container makeover, is that it can stand alone or be placed on a candle stand, and it makes a shabby chic impact.

Adding embellishments is an optional step. I’ve added pearls to the lace bcoz twine, lace and pearls are my favorite combo.

If you intend to dress up a Valentines day decor or a mantle, having a couple of these would really add a touch of elegance.

I hope you like this makeover as much as I do, and might even consider attempting something similar !

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Tutorial – Felt Phone Pouch

January 27, 2019February 5, 2019 naush

Hello Friends.

I’m back with a fun and funky felt pouch tutorial.

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In my previous post, I shared, how we can make hair accessories, jewelry as well as book marks with felt, so today, we’ll see how we can design a fun felt case or pouch for the mobile phone.

Ofcourse, you can use these pouches to carry anything apart from phones as well.

You can also gift it your friends as valentines gift or mothers day gift or even teachers day gifts.

I must confess, I am quite a novice at sewing. The only thing, I can sew is fallen off buttons !! But I decided to break the curse 😉 and give it a try.

The black pouch was the first one I sewed so the irregularities in the stitches, are pretty obvious, but I think, I got the hang of it by the time, I started the second (blue) pouch.

So I started with a rectangle shape, after measuring my phone dimensions and . . . .

felt pouch

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I know, the sewing is far from good but i think, with the next pouch, I tried the blanket stitch and turned out looking great.

Bonus tutorial of how to make a tassel !!!

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I could not have taken more photos while tying the tassel since I’d need more than 2 hands !

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I’m delighted with these pouches. My mobiles sit perfectly in them.

I have added two quilled flowers ( tutorial here) in the blue pouch. I distressed the flowers with some (Tim Holtz) Rangers Distress ink.

I think the pictorial is pretty self-explanatory, isn’t it ?

I hope you liked it and might consider attempting a felt creation !

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Tutorial – Felt flowers and uses.

January 26, 2019 naush

Hi friends.

Today I am sharing a few samples of flowers made with felt.

felt flowers for valentines

Whether your crafting with children or adults, you’ll love playing with felt. Its an easy material, which is quite forgiving. Unlike paper, its not very thin, and unlike fabric, its not very fluid. It can hold its shape well and can be adhered easily, with just a dab or two, of glue.

There are several tutorials available on Youtube to demonstrate how to make different types of flowers with felt. Since I was designing a few, I took a few pictures.

felt flower tutorial 1 Once you cut out the large circle, start cutting the inside border like so

felt flower tutorial 2

Once you roll the flower to the end, add some hot glue to the base of the flower, and adhere the rolled up flower to the base. I could not take a photo of that. ( I would need three arms to do so !)

felt flower (1)

Attach two green leaves to the back of the base and voila ! Here you have it. felt flower (2)

felt flower (3) — Six felt circles is all it takes, to make this lovely flower.

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felt flower tutorial

felt necklace — This is an easy necklace made with leftover strips of excess felt. Just roll two different colors of felt together ( same width) and form this quill. Use little hot glue to seal the ends. I sewed the rolls together with a thick needle.

felt bookmark — This is a simple yet effective bookmark made with a little elastic string and three felt circles.

Kids love to craft with felt. Something about the texture and bright colors, really attracts little ones.

In addition to the bookmark and necklace, I have used felt to design flowers for hair accessories, jewelry like brooches and journal covering, in the past.

So, have you crafted with felt, ever ?

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Upcycle Pizza Box

January 23, 2019 naush

Hello creative buddies !

Pizza Hut take away boxes are one of my favorite materials to use as canvases and shadow box frames.

Here are some of my other takes on the previous pizza box projects :

https://doodlebuddies.net/2014/06/17/upcycled-pizza-box-into-mixed-media-canvas/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2013/10/25/pizza-box-canvas/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2013/07/17/recycle-pizza-box-and-toilet-rolls-tutorial/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2013/07/05/pizza-box-turned-to-shadow-box/

https://doodlebuddies.net/2011/06/15/gift-box-pizza-box-recycled/

Today, I have used ring-pulls to design a heart shape on a pizza box. I love playing with texture and these ring pulls add a unique texture to the project. I have used a gold matt spray paint finish to subdue the rings.

The process was longer than expected but the end result was well-worth it.

* I did not have to go scavenging for ring pulls since I already collect them and have a huge pile of ring pulls and lids so they come in handy, for such projects.

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How did you find this project ?

I continue to share projects that can inspire my friends and readers with ways to reuse/recycle/repurpose/upcycle household items.

Every decision starts with a very small but firm, first step. I hope you embrace the idea of recycling or repurposing this year.

If you have been recycling already, I would love to read some of your ideas for eco friendly crafts too.

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Tutorial -How to upcycle wooden puzzle blocks?

January 19, 2019February 5, 2019 naush

What do you do when some of your puzzle blocks are missing ?

What do I do ?

Why ofcourse, I upcycle them. But naturally .. Problem solved !

My oldest son is extremely fond of solving puzzles. However with 2 younger brothers around him who enjoy tossing puzzles pieces more than joining them together .. the older one has had it difficult and puzzle blocks go missing. 😦

Inspite of being incomplete, I kept them packed away for the longest time, until recently, when I decided to give them a makeover. (Its just NOT in my nature, to toss them out 🙂 )

So here is a simple pictorial of the transformation.

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I gently, wiped these blocks with a slightly damp rag. puzzle block makeover 3

Then applied two coats of indigo acrylic, on all sides of the blocks.

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When the diecut machine is in progress, I like to cut a bunch of flowers, which i store in egg trays like this : upcycle egg tray to organizer

I found some diecuts that fit perfectly in the squares puzzle block upcycle

I destressed the edges of the diecuts and stamped the letters which spelt FAMILY on one side and BE MINE on the other side.

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This how they look after adhering them on one side :- reversible blocks sign reversible blocks diy reversible block repurpose

While one side has the letters which forms FAMILY, the other has letters which stand for BE MINE

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Inorder to make these beautiful blocks more durable – I gave them a single coat of modge podge. valentine decor valentine blocks gift doodle buddies upcycle be mine blocks upcycle craft project