Fiery Globe

It’s been a year since I started working on Menstrupedia and every part of my brain is occupied with it’s thoughts. I am obsessed with Menstrupedia’s work and enjoy it so much that I hardly feel like doing some thing else. Few months back amidst of no where, I suddenly felt like making a Lamp and came up with this. It took me an hour to make it. I could not think of a suitable name so I asked my Instagram friends to suggest a suitable name. Fiery Globe was suggested by Prasoon Gupta, I liked it very much and decided to call it the same 🙂
I am able to finally post it here along with the tutorial. This lamp is made out of the things that were available at my home. You can also just use the bamboo globe wrapped with lights and hand them to lit up a cozy corner.

Here’s the step-by-step tutorial:

Red Chilly Pickle

This is my mother’s recipe. The good thing about it is that it let’s you enjoy chilly pickle if you are the kind of person who can not eat spicy food. Here is the step-by-step process to make it. The …

A warm heart

It’s been ages since I posted here. I made this lamp for the Valentine’s day and just love the way it fills my home with warmth and romance.

Valentine’s Day special: A DIY Heart Lamp

1. Cut a card board in the shape of a heart
2. Pierce Christmas/LED lights through it
3. Make lots of paper roses and stick on the heart
4. This is how you make paper roses

How to make Sky Lanterns

Lovely Illustration by Tuhin Paul

We made sky lanterns to celebrate “Diwali”, a festival of lights in India. You can find the step-by-step tutorial here:
Step 1: Make Paper Balloon
The paper balloon is made using rice papers,butter paper, kite paper or tracing paper. Butter paper works best as it has good tensile strength which prevents the paper from tearing and is easy to handle.


While sticking the sides of the butter paper make sure you stick it properly so that the hot air could not escape from it.
Step 2: Making the rim of the balloon
The open end of the balloon is stuck with a bamboo ring to attache the fuel.

Step 3: Making the Fuel
For making the fuel of Sky lantern, you need wax and napkin papers.

Step 4: Attaching the fuel

The wire used must not be very thick otherwise it may increase the weight of the sky lantern, also it should not be very thin otherwise it would melt with the heat.

Make lots of them and launch them together, sky lanterns when launched looks visually stunning. Its a very eco-friendly and beautiful way of celebrating the festival of lights.
You can watch the video of launching Sky lanterns here:

Blue Beads Earrings

This is how I turned an old boring earning into a lovely and fashionable one. I just love to flaunt these.

Finally, stick the thread part using fevicol or fabric glue. This prevents the beads to rotate along the rim of the ring and also makes the bead layer sturdy.

Making old furnitures new

I keep shifting cities either for education or for work. Every time you shift in a new house, buying suitable furniture always sounds interesting but while shifting they make huge luggage. To avoid that I generally buy old furnitures and try to give them a make over to suit the ambiance for my home.
Here is how I made a very old wooden box into a new and lively stool.

Get your favourite colours and let the imagination flow. I painted the whole box with a single base colour and then drew patterns on all the four sides.

This is how you make the seat of the stool. Foams are available in various thickness, get a suitable one from a home furnishing shop.

The brand new stool is ready!!


The new colourful stools looks good in the garden too. And is liked by kids as well as adults.


P.S. The expert models featured here are my friends 😛
Similarly, I painted this very old wooden rack. The person I bought this from says its almost 15 years old. I really appreciated the quality of the wood that was used. It almost looked new after painting and added a very colourful ambiance to my kitchen.

Use Kites for decorating walls

My friend used kites for decorating the hostel room at our design school. We saved some of the kites after the “Kite Festival”(in Gujarat, India) getting inspired by her, I thought of using them to decorate the empty walls of our home.
Kites, sequins, some mirror pieces, marker and that’s all you need to give a colorful beautiful look to those empty walls.

use Kites for decorating empty walls

Fill those walls near the stairs with Kites.

That’s my hubby posing for me

Use you imagination, create beautiful patterns and decorate the kites.

Glowssoms: Tutorial

Retain the Spring and have a bright Summer!!

This is how I tried to retain the spring this summer !!
I found an old tyre tube in my backyard and converted it into a flowery lamp using series lights and paper roses.
These night blossoms make the living area very pleasant and relaxing. One of the many reasons why we always look forward to go home after work.

Cup dé light: Tutorial

We were trying to make some decorative with series lights & paper cups and came up with this.
Paper cups used for coffee, tea or water can be very easily recycled to make an eco-friendly exotic lamp.
I am just loving the ambiance light this lamp creates in our drawing room.

Every point where one layer of the cup flower comes in contact with the other layer is glued.
It takes some time for layers to get stuck with each other, so its better to finish sticking first 2 layers and then adding the 3rd one.
The red dots shown here are the glued points.