Banana nut muffins

Well here are some banana nut muffins that I made last to last week.I am pretty much excited to tell everyone and share it here because its the first time I have tried to do any kind of muffins.
I made it out of the ready mix  for this variety of muffins.Since it was made with the ready make mix ,I didn't have to have the trouble of measuring and adding the ingredients,I only had to add 1/2 cup of milk.The only improvisation that i needed to do was to determine the time for baking since the instruction was for ovens only,and I did it in a micro oven.In India we generally do not have the ovens at our houses.So I had to do it in micro.For this whole mixture, I baked it in convection mode of micro oven  for 45 mins at high power i.e at 180 degree Celsius.For the cup molds I used the silicon cupcake molds that I got from US last year.

I must share it ,to my astonishment the muffins turned out really well and will try some more variety in near future.

Enjoy!!

Haul time!!

Today I am going to share with u all,some of the goodies that my husband brought for me,from abroad.Since I am an avid cosmetics lover,cosmetics have to be in our list.Today ,among other things I am only sharing ones that come under cosmetics.After all these short abroad trips ,are not bad ,especially for the wives :) !!
Here are the large ones,

Oh ,yes they are really jumbo.I just love these.
The Vaseline cocoa radiant moisturiser is huge.
And about the Aveeno one,I just love Aveeno products for their quality and variety in affordable prices.
The Olay body wash is just gorgeous.
So these are the skin products.Now comes the hair ones.Since i am not a frequent user of hair styling  products,my hair products are pretty much limited within mostly shampoos and conditioners only.Here are they,

These are the travel size Neutrogena shampoo and conditioner.
The other one though is a styling product,its Sauve keratin infusion serum,that I intend to use now as my hair is naturally very frizzy and dry.Hope  that helps.
The next one is a lip product .Its a Covergirl blastflipstick in shade flashy.

Anyways that's it for today.I hope to do some reviews of these,after using these for a while.Bye all...and a lot more posts are on the way.

My blog,
I am back after a long long gap,and it seems to be an age since I have blogged. Actually I have been quite busy these days a lot of things are happening in my life in last few months.Firstly we have relocated to an entirely different city.And thus all my time has gone into settling up afresh.Moreover, in the meantime we had to tackle an abroad trip also.So lately there has been a lot of packing of bags  and travel on short notices.Now ,I don't want anymore tedious packing except for the short relaxing holiday trips.
Anyways I am sorry for the long gap ,but I am hoping for blogging more regularly and frequently.

Hey friends,I might have been away from posting for a long time.Actually I have been working on a lot of projects together.here is one that I have finished just last week.
Its a embroidery ,kantha embroidery on a blouse piece.For all who are not much aware of this kantha stitch embroidery,here are some facts.
This is Kantha embroidery.West Bengal,a state in eastern India is famous for this craft.The craft has been around for hundreds of years in India and was born out of necessity.It has always been popular amongst rural women who keep the tradition of this special craft alive. This type of embroidery was initially created on old used fabric like old Saree's(Indian dress ).Kantha can be translated as ‘patched cloth’ although in the ancient language of Sanskrit and with a slight spelling variation, Kantha also means ‘rags’. To the people of Bengal, the word is associated with ‘embroidered quilt’ .People often recycled their favorite garments/fabric to make a new quilt to protect them in winter.
Kantha embroidery has a long history and is believed to have arisen with the way Bengali women mended old clothes. They would take out strands of thread from the borders of their colorful sarees and then create simple designs with them. The creations were known by different titles depending on the item they created. These names included Lepkantha and Sujni Kantha. Another simple fact for the development of Kantha embroidery was to be used as a blanket to beat the cold of the winter months in this north-eastern part of India. There are in fact 7 forms of Kantha embroidery in West Bengal.
These days new cloth/fabric is used,Saree's/cushion covers/bed covers/are all done using Kantha embroidery.A running stitch is used creatively to form beautiful patterns on the fabric.Floral motifs,bird/animal motifs are used.Rural women engage in this craft and every day life is depicted in the design. Cloth is layered and held together by the Kantha stitch.Kantha embroidery is a hit with tourists in west Bengal and it truly is a work of art.

So I used the same stitch to adorn a boring single color blouse to an attractive one.I stitched the motifs on the arms.Thread here used are from  anchor cotton threads.

Just a little goodies bag

Hi all,this is just a little paper goodies bag that I made for a friend on her birthday to present the gift.it was super easy .I used the bag to hold a  nail polish from Elle18.And along with it I gave her a chocolate bar from Cadbury's temptation(wrapped in red wrapping paper).

As for the bag I used plain white card stock and folded to form the bag.At the bottom ,pasted a dark purple CS and scalloped the edge with scalloped  scissors.The handle is done with mauve ribbon that remained in my stash for a long and I found a place to use it,so here it goes.

It’s a very easy to make and hope I might try to decorate this a bit more which I couldn't do because of time.

Thank you so much for stopping by with your lovely comments..It means a lot to me.

Until next time…

Have a nice day… creativebee.