Gratitude!!

I have so much to be thankful for. As the new year begins I strongly feel that it's a time to say 'thank you' to each and every one of you. You all have been my strength, courage & support throughout my blogging journey. I was nothing and you all made me a beautiful person, I feel content and happy all the time. I find myself very fortunate that I got connected with such wonderful and lovely people in this virtual world of blogging. Now I have friends from many different countries, religions and cultures and that's what I love about blogging. 

I am grateful to God for giving everything that I had in the past, I have today and will have in future. I am grateful to my parents, siblings and my wonderful, lovely, sweet & small family for their endless support and selfless love, for their precious time that they spend with me and make me feel special, for their encouraging words that keep me going, I couldn't ask for more. I am grateful to all fellow bloggers who are always there to help and keep inspiring me. I am grateful to you all my friends and readers, you never fail to encourage and support me, no matter in which part of the world you are, you are always there for me whenever I need you. Thank you! Thank you very much.

I would like to thank those friends too, who always see negative in me, who try to put me down, who always discourage me and try to create negativity around me, who criticize me in every way possible, who never even congratulate me on my success, people....believe me you are my best friends because you bring the best out of me. Every time you try to put me down I rise and run with strength double than earlier. I am very grateful to you friends, but I request you to stop being jealous, instead be grateful for what all you have got, as gratitude blocks toxic emotions :) look in the mirror, think about me and SMILE :) kill those toxic emotions as soon as possible. 

My dear friends and readers, I read somewhere and would like to share the secret to happiness with you, it's Gratitude!!

"Gratitude is not only the greatest virtues, but the parent of all the others".

                                                                                                                   -Cicero

Secret to happiness is- express gratitude, practice kindness, spread cheer and savor joy. I have experienced this many a times that when you become grateful for everything that happens in life, you see the world with new eyes, you find yourself calm, happy and content, your life becomes full of wonderful opportunities.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my dear friends Vandana and Nayana, who sent very beautiful and thoughtful gift for me. Thanks girls!! We joined a wonderful group on FB called 'Urban Gardeners Around The World' and we decided to send some gardening related gifts to each other. This is what I got. I am a happy girl now :)

Nayana sent me beautiful wooden trinket box, lovely dangler and cinnamon sticks. I loved them all :)

Vandana sent me fabulous orange watering can planter and very classy Varnam box. What lovely friends and what beautiful gifts :)

I have lot to share but I wish I had at least 36 hrs in a day to make it possible. Let me quickly share some very important things:

1) My blog is considered as one the best Indian design blogs. Thank you Hindustan Times :)

2) It crossed more than 4,50,000 hits recently. Thank you readers :)

3) I earned money in six figures in just 4 months and that too through blogging. Thanks to Blogger, Google and my clients :)

4) I did my very first commissioned wall art project, post about it will be coming shortly. Thanks to the wonderful client :)

5) I took plunge into the video blogging and it's also paying me handsomely. Thanks to viewers :) You can subscribe to my Youtube channel here.

That's all from me. Stay tuned lovely people, a very talented artist will be joining us soon.

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Winter Putz Display

While most people display their Putz Houses during the Christmas season,

I reserve mine for a favorite winter display...

Why?

Because, I have way too much Christmas decor to display and not enough surface space to show and share it all at the same time!





And it's something that I look forward to after the Christmas decor is all put away!



Plus, I hand made all these Putz Houses except

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LivingRoom Winter Decor!

I don't mind taking down Christmas decorations because I have so much winter decor to put in it's place!
This year I made this felt snowflake pillow...




Just by adding old buttons and ball trim made it the cutest pillow on the couch!


I found these small skates at a vintage and decor shop.


And an old wooden bowl of faux snowballs compliments the theme.


Add my bit of primitive, and

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The Best of 2014

When 2014 first arrived, I thought this was going to be a lean year in terms of projects. My home was close to what I wanted it to look like
                                                 ...but oh I was wrong.
It's been a great year of improvements and completely new creations!


Beginning with this French china hutch that I actually purchased to "paint and sell". It turned out to fabulous

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ZupiterG: One Stop Destination For Home Decor Products

Hola readers!! We are heading towards the most beautiful time of the year, Christmas & New Year. Whether you have made a list of your New Year resolutions or not, but I am very sure that you must be having a long list of gifts to buy for your near and dear ones. Choosing a right and perfect gift can be a mind bending task and can burn hole in your pockets too. 

What if I say that for Rs 3000/-  you can buy perfect gifts for at-least 6-8 people. Unbelievable and exciting right!! I have found something amazing for all of you. Dear friends let me introduce you to an online store that offers handcrafted and beautifully designed home decor products, jewelry, tableware & lot more: ZupiterG 

About: ZupiterG is a team of Engineers, Management Professionals, Designers and philosophers, who have come together to make home decor more interesting through their contemporary designs and crafted products. ZupiterG offers an exclusive range of hand crafted products and beauty of handcrafted product is that no two products would be exactly the same. Now that's a win win situation, unique and affordable products without compromising quality. What more one can ask for. 

Website: Website layout is quite simple and not that complicated most of the online shopping portals have these days. The products are categorized, sub categorized and grouped under different tabs, like 'Home Decor', 'Table Top', 'Jewelry' & 'Gifts'. 'Quick view' option is there to get the complete information about the product that catches your eye, without even leaving the web page. You can search, filter and sort products according to your need. Navigation is quite simple and easy.
ZupiterG is a customer friendly online store, cancellation & refund policies are liberal. So you need not to worry about it at all. Even after placing order if you want to cancel it, you can do so without any hassle within 24 hours and money will be refunded within 10 working days.
Various payment options are available, like Paypal, they accept almost all major credit cards. Security of your information is their prime concern. There is payment gateway, that means your credit card information is not getting stored, so no worries.

Products: Their products are handcrafted and exquisite. I was awestruck by the beauty of their handcrafted products. I have been using some of their products and let me tell you that quality of products are just too good at unbelievably affordable price range. Take a peek of some of their drool worthy and must have home decor products and jewelry.

Royal Craft Metal

Candle Stands & Hurricanes

Jewelry 

Now that you have seen some of their products and have already decided to buy all your gifts from ZupiterG, let me share some pros and cons of this website:

Pros:

- Handcrafted products are always unique and made with love. So you have got the luxury of having unique products at affordable pricing.

- They have exquisite collection of products. They are all beautifully designed.

- Website is totally customer friendly and you need not to worry about issues like security, cancellation and refund.

- Perfect and budget gifting range is available.

Cons:

- They offer beautiful and wide range of handcrafted products, so you will be spoiled for choice.

- You will have a hard time choosing a product, as you will be tempted to buy most of them.

Here's how these beauties are adorning corners in my home:
Don't you love the dangler that's enhancing the beauty of this antique vase. I totally loved it.

These beautiful glass beads necklaces are every girl's dream. They are lovely and vibrant in colour.

Here is my favorite thing, antique floral photo frame. This time I wanted to display something other than family photograph so I wrote a 'family quote' and it's looking perfect.

Lovely glass votive with beautiful dangler, vignette that I always wanted in my living room's corner.

Now please take out some time to browse through their product gallery and hurry up, as festive sale is going on and you would be lucky enough to get the gifts for your loved ones in budget less than what you might have fixed. 

Here is link: ZupiterG

Happy shopping folks!!

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!

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Christmas Tree Banner & Stocking

While decorating my main Christmas Tree this year, I chose to go red and natural...



Natural by adding Quail



A twig Star



And I made this cloth banner...






On a trip to Kansas City, we stopped by Nell Hill's, a fabulous decor and furniture store like no other! The prices are great too! I picked up a yard of this fabric...





Not knowing what I was going to do with it, I put it

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Our 2014 Dining and Sitting Rooms ...

One week away from Christmas ... wow!  Where has this season gone?  Before the holiday is over, I wanted to share a little more of our seasonal home.

I haven't shown you our new dining room yet since we moved in a few months ago.  It's very similar in layout to our old dining room ... 

In "this" dining room, we decided to go a tad bit darker on the walls and had it painted Sherwin Williams' "Perfect Greige."  We love the color and how well the white shelves and pieces pop against it!  We plan on adding shadowbox molding in the New Year.

Thankfully our fragile antique sideboard didn't get "injured" in the move!  

I placed the big brother of the reindeer on our great room mantel in here ...

and kept it simple with just a few mercury pieces.

I brought our mirrored chest (that used to be in the bedroom in our old house) in here and, instead of decorating a full-sized tree, we went with a smaller 4ft instead ...

and dressed it in ornaments mainly silver and gold:

Our silver and white dinnerware is from Home Goods: 

I brought out our mirror again this year and used it as the base for our centerpiece.

Love the afternoon sunlight streaming in ...

Now, let's walk on over to the sitting room:

Since this room was already done in a brown, blue and cream palette, I kept the tree in the same theme, but added pops of gold and silver, as well:

I kept our bookcase pretty simple by adding just a hint of holiday greenery and embellishments:

A few more splashes of the season made their way to this side, as well:

Next year, I just might have to make this more of a "coastal" tree!

Cute, reindeer pillows from Hobby Lobby:

Another snap of the afternoon sun ...

Time to go wrap a few presents!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

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