Mehendhi

Mehendhi from last Christmas.

Food covers (2 - 4)

Buy a plastic holly sprig.

Separate leaves and berries.

Hot glue two leaves along with a berry where you want them to go making sure you are not gluing any to the skeleton of the umbrella. This umbrella was a rectangular one.

A square one.

One which had six segments.

Food Cover - 1

I saw a decorated food cover in a gift shop lo...ng ago. The price on the tag was shockingly high. I can't recall what those were decorated with now.

Some years later I started decorating food covers to be gifted to friends. This is one of them. I trim artificial leaves to the shape of holly and hot glued them along with  red plastic berries.

Kolam Coasters

Kolam is a form of drawing (in the Indian culture) that is drawn at the entrance of a house using rice flour. People use coloured powder, coconut, dried tea leaves and all sorts of things to make Rangoli - a coloured kolam. The ones above are called 'pulli kolam' (dotted kolam) or 'kambi kolam' (string kolam) and is popular among the Tamil speaking population of India. Since I am Tamil... I claim it as my cultural stuff too. :-)

All four are 5x5 doted ones that I found in arusuvai website. The instructions on how to make these are on http://www.arusuvai.com/tamil/node/30530

In a nut shell... clean tiles with methylated spirit. Mark the dots; draw the kolam and paint it. Follow paint manufactures instructions on curing & fixing / baking. Remove pencil marks gently with a soft soapy sponge when tile cools completely. Pat dry. Stick foam backing when tile it completely dry.

Done!

One thing I have observed with any hand painted tiles is that they tend to stick to the hot mug and lift with the mug often. :-) With time, paint may peel off or the tile will lift with the cup, drop and attempt for a suicide. :-)

Mehendhi On My Foot

This is the first one I tried a few years back.

I don't stick to any particular pattern.

This is random - my own design. :-)

After taking it off.

A second one.

19/08/2017 - A sole-less slipper! '

Why do I always draw on my right foot only!

Going to try drawing o the left one next time.