How to make decoration at home for Ganpati festival in an eco-friendly way?

Ganpati festival is being celebrated not only in Maharashtra ,India but also it's being celebrated outside the country too .Long back the tradition was started by making clay idol of lord Ganesha at home . Later, Lokmanya Tilak puts the thought process to popularize it and celebrate as a common celebration in village/society. Today we do celebrate this festival at home as well as in society. It’s a festival of minimum 1.5 days and maximum to 11 days.
Today we have the major issue of controlling the water pollution and whatever decorative material we use to decorate at home, if it’s not eco-friendly then probably we adds pollution to the environment, at the same time various competitions is being held to win the prize for decoration. My post is written keeping in mind 

• Eco-friendly 
• Easy to make
• Simple to make 
• No expertise is required 
• No special cost required to make it 
• Very unique and eye catching

Let’s see a big list of material to make our decoration at home. Ohh sorry, no list of material, we need only colored papers and to cut the paper need a pair of scissors. 
Let’s follow below simple steps now.
I have made this year decoration at home and it suits small to medium size idol. 
Preparation:-
We would need 7 drawing sheets of one color and 2 of another color .Normally drawing sheets available in market in sizes 36 inches X 23 inches 
From each sheet, we will get 6 pieces of sizes 6 inch X 23 inches and accordingly for our decoration, we need to cut and made ready 42 pieces of one color and 14 pieces of another color of the same size as 6 inches X23 inches. No need to measure them with scale, the sizes is chosen to have zero waste from the paper sheets. 
1. Make paper petals ready

Take one piece and fold it from the centre along the length .Fold the corners towards the folded edge. We need to make two more folds again along the length on either side of the centre line and fold it outwards as shown in image one .This we need to follow for making 42 pieces of one color, I have chosen pink and same to be followed for 14 pieces too of another color, green, the only difference is we need to make last fold inside as explained in image 7.
2. Let’s make petals assembly

I have given engineering thought here on how to hold the weight of idol on the papers petals. Very simple it is. If we use the thickness of the paper to put the weight on it, it will work. As shown in image 8 , we will be making 14 groups from 56 petals what we have made ready . Each group will have 4 petals in a sequence first will be green and 2, 3, 4 will be pink 
3. Lets complete the paper Lotus 

As shown in image 9, we are aligning all 14 sets together and adjust the edges to make it equal. Hold the set at centre firmly and tie with the thread, as shown in image 10.Now try to make a circle just by pressing the petals in a direction ,however, keep no press on the centre petals , once you do it ,you will notice the circle is formed with these 56 petals . There will be no spring back action, so no need to worry about it. Now this is the last step , fold all pink petals upwards and keep the green one flat as shown in image 12.

The decoration is now ready to welcome the Ganpati Bappa. Isn’t it simple and eye catching? It is very ease,eye-catching and different.I have made this in less than an hour. In today's busy life we are getting less time to do such creativity but we always want to make it by our own hands.

Give final touch now. 

Cut the circle piece from the white paper and paste it to the lotus petals . this is required to place the Ganpati idol over it.    



For quick look, I have created the video and it's available on
YouTube ,available at this link . 
Ganpati Bappa Morya !!! 

How to make a lamp using plastic bottle for decorating your house?

How to make a lamp using a plastic bottle for decorating your house?

My today’s post is being dedicated to arts and crafts with my creativity in sharing with you how we can make a unique lamp for your home. Believe me, it will not cost much for you as we will be using waste things normally those are not useful and we throw them in the dustbin. Our mood normally depends on upon the color of lights. In today’s busy world, when we are back to home, we always preferred to have soft light and the silent music is on and just relaxes for a couple of minutes doing nothing. This gives us our energy back for tomorrow.     

Well before we really start making the lamp; let’s see what all we need to gather? 

• Empty water bottle
• Glass pebbles with single or multi colors (Flat at one surface)
• Ceramic paste (will be available in market in 2 different packets that need to mix it together) 
• A bulb with electric wire.  

Some basic tools also we need to keep aside like a cutter, marker

Let’s begin to start making our unique lamp. 

Take an empty plastic bottle, cut out the dome shape so that you will have left with the cylindrical piece and this is what we will require. Take a mixed ceramic paste; please make sure this paste doesn’t stay good after 15 minutes and becomes dry and probably you will not able to make use of it. So don’t mix it in advance. Apply the ceramic paste at the open end of the bottle, as being seen in image 2. Now it’s a turn to fix the glass pebbles .How to fix the glass pebbles with a plastic bottle? Do we need any other things to fix it? No, the ceramic paste is good for us. Take few glass pebbles and make the border with ceramic paste as shown in image 3. We need to make sure that the spillover of the paste shouldn’t happen at the inner surface of glass pebbles; else it will restrict the light illumination or transparency. Let’s complete first row and then move on and complete fixing of all glass pebbles on the bottle surface. 

After fixing the pebbles, you will notice in between the surface of the bottle is open for light but we need to cover the entire surface. So, apply the ceramic paste wherever the transparency is there. Our aim is to have lights coming only through glass pebbles. Once we are done with this, we all are now set and just need to think how to attach the electric bulb into it. I found my way but you may have some better ways to fix bulb into it. What I did, I put the small hole at the bottom as shown in figure 6 and passes the wire from it.

Safety is of topmost important ,so I have used small PVC pipe to cover the electric wire and it helped me in keeping the lamp steady and straight once I put it with the ceiling.

Glass pebbles play a vital role in color shade of the light. The choice is with you which color you want and choose the glass pebbles colors accordingly.

Did you like this post? Is it easy to make? Please DIY. 

How to make handmade tea light lamp or latern or candle holder

Hello friends,
I just enjoy this creation. After completing it got a satisfaction for its beauty and use both. Its really good example for best use of waste. It requires an empty coldrink can and some creative weapons! Its true, with the use of creativity artist can use anything as a weapon. It needs cutter to cut, big needle or any pointed thing to make the holes and off course some patience. As an artist we are always in a hurry to finish an art piece.

So let's start!

1. We need an empty cold drink can marker pen, needle or some pointed thing to make holes, and cutter.
2. With the help of marker draw the design on the can. At the top an bottom you can make different design motifs. You can make flowers or simple straight lines patterns. 
3. Start by making the holes on the can. The top and bottom part is very harder than middle part, so you can use small hammer or something else to make holes with needle. Be patient it will take some extra time.
4. Now finish the design with holes in middle part. Its quiet easy to do that top and bottom part. Here we need to do vertical lines design.

5. After that we will start cutting the can. Cut out the black part as shown in image 5 pointed by an arrow. Repeat the cutting process for the complete can.

6. Press the can vertically from the top and bottom. Press it slowly and you can see the the petals are coming out. Our lamp is ready to use!

7. Now take a tea light candle and put it inside the lamp between the petals. 

8. After putting tea light candle we can light it with matchstick. Use 2 tea light candles, keep one inside the lamp and another at the top of the lamp.

It's done, this is the simple process of tea light candle holder or lamp or latern from an empty cold drink can, which we always crush and throw in dustbin. This is the another good example of best out of waste!

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