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Make Your House Extraordinarily Beautiful with Basket Decoration Ideas
Feb 24th, 2017 by Deepika

Baskets can do lot more than serving as a storage or a gifting box. Decorating the interiors by using baskets is a fantastic way to give an extraordinary look to your house. It is a very different style and quite unusual from the normal decoration ideas.

Moreover, you can think something out of the box with your creativity by using basket theme for different purposes. You can use baskets made of different materials that may best suit your idea. Baskets are made out of many things like plastic, wicker, and types of wood. Here in this article, you will know some amazing ideas for implementing basket decoration in different ways at your home.

Baskets for Coffee Table or Living Room’s Center Table: If you have a center table or a coffee table at your house, which has empty space under its platform then you can place a basket filled with some essentials decorated nicely underneath. This way, you can decorate the table and also find some space for the storage of small things like magazines or may be quick bites. While having coffee, watching TV or attending to guests, the essentials in the basket can be very useful. The basket can be placed on top of the table as well, provided it is well organized.

Basket Full of Flowers: Well, flowers and baskets are inseparable in a way. Both complement each other the best. Go for a wooden basket or a wicker basket. You can use artificial flowers to make a permanent arrangement. Place the flowers properly and in an appealing color combination, so that it looks like a visual treat.

Flower baskets are available in many different shapes also, so you can pick the most appropriate one depending upon the position where you wish to place it. However, a beautifully decorated flower basket of any size and shape can occupy a place almost in any corner of the house without looking absurd.

For living rooms, a larger basket looks more appropriate, whereas in rooms and bathrooms small flower baskets can be decorated. Even in kitchen and dining space, a flower basket can refresh the whole outlook.

Interesting Wall Hangings: Baskets when hung on house walls, be it exterior walls or interiors look extremely stylish. You could either hang 1 huge basket on an empty wall or make an interesting basket collage using small sizes and shapes of baskets. For wall hanging purpose, different colors of baskets are available in the market.  Unique shapes can draw good attention. Shallower baskets are more preferred for wall hangings.

Other Ideas: The most common basket decoration idea remains filling it with decorative items and storing it on a visible place. Use decorative balls, plastic fruits, marbles, potpourri, and many other assortments of decorative things to complete your basket. Another very interesting idea is to dig a hole in between the basket and put a bulb or light from that hole. Hang it anywhere from the ceiling and you will experience an amazing lighting concept at your home.

These are just some of the many creative ideas that you can implement in your house décor projects using baskets.

How to Make Hand-made Tulle Flowers in a Jiffy?
Jan 24th, 2017 by Deepika

Giant paper flowers, celebrations, and parties are a perfect combination! Retro-looking hand-made flowers are easy to create in a short period of time. And, this post is intended to guide you through the process of making tulle flowers and papers.

These add a touch of ethereal and class touch to wedding regalia; they can be used as banquet decoration, bridal gloves, hats, dresses, or parasols. It isn’t necessary that you should make use of sewing machine, as you can as well sew tulle flowers by hand, though machine work makes it easy and quick. It measures 3-in in diameter and you can also make adjustment in the dimensions making the flower look larger or smaller according to your requirements.

How to Create Tulle?

You can create your own tulle headband; the final flower design appears better, if you work with thread and needle, rather than glue. Assuming you’ve certain sewing skills, you can create gorgeous fabric tulles in simple steps.

Things Needed

In order to get prettier, cleaner, and nicer finish, you need the following items:

  • Rotary cutter, mat, and fabric scissors
  • Satin headband
  • Beads, rhinestones, crystals, or pearls to finish
  • Dressmaker’ pen or chalk
  • Thread and sewing needle
  • Spotted tulle

Various Ways to Create Tulles

There are several methods to create these feminize floral tulles; depending upon your purpose, such as jazzing up a plain clutch, inserted to table runners, and stunning hair accessory, these make gorgeous wedding items. These look good on kids in the design of adorable hair band; they can be strung together as banner or decorate wedding favors or kid’s birthday parties, these make absolutely lovely designs.  

Steps Involved

In order to get into the right shape, first make a pencil sketch, drawing a rose petal on cards. After making the sketches, cut in to right shape. You can repeat the outline many times onto larger paper to help create proper pattern and flower shape. Once you’re sure that pattern and shape is proper and neat, you can cut them.

Take different paper material and make it into a square shape slightly larger than original flower shape. Pin the flower outline to the folded sheet and then cut around. Replicate the procedure until you’ve enough chiffon layers and tulles in order to create a beautiful packed flower. You can create flowers using 26 layers; however, the number of layers depends on the flower size and fabric weight.

Now, put the cut-out flowers on top; arrange the placement of the petals and if needed, you can also change or decorate with different material. Use thread and needle to stitch the flower to centre or side position, as you need.  

If you want to add volume, you can squeeze the flower from underneath (all together), and stitch it so that it won’t fall. This will not only add volume, but also give tulle a realistic shape. For fashionable look, you can insert beads, pearls, or other small decorative items. Now, pair it with a clip or hair band.

Make use of these tips to make a pretty floral headpiece in a jiffy.

4 Fashionable Ideas to Decorate Your Christmas Basket
Dec 24th, 2016 by Deepika

The very mention of the word Christmas reminds us of celebrations, Christmas trees, snow, delicious feats, prayers, gifts, and decorations. When speaking about gifts, Christmas gift baskets and hampers are an inevitable part of the festivities. Most of them prefer giving each other gift hampers loaded with the receiver’s favorite things within. The content may be anything ranging from cookies and chocolates to candles and Christmas party supplies or anything that you feel that the receiver would love to get as a gift.

Apart from being exchanged as gifts, Christmas baskets can also be filled with assorted Christmas ornaments and be used as a part of your home decoration. Irrespective of the purpose for which you use the basket for, decorating your basket plays a vital role its appearance is what matters the most when gifting or using for decorations.

Here are few fashionable ideas to decorate your unique Christmas gift or decoration baskets.

  • Improve the presentation of the Christmas basket by loading it first with raffia, colored cellophane, straw, shredded colored paper or crumpled tissue paper. Line it with a fabric piece using a Christmas design. You can make use of white, red or green filler or use a combination of all these three colors. And then, fill them with the main gifts.
  • After filling the basket with the main gifts, you can also consider tucking in few Christmas-themed gifts in between the main gifts to decorate the basket and set the festival mood. Go on with the holiday motif by tucking in scented holiday candles, candy canes, winter trail mix, Christmas ornaments, cookies, and foil-covered chocolates. You can also slip in decorative accessories like snowman, snowflakes or paper Santa to mirror the Christmas theme.
  • Glitters and ribbons are great ways to give your basket that extra special look. Use glitters around the basket for a shiny appearance. Ribbons made of satin, silk, fabric, velvet or anything else in red, green or white colors can be used to give a very attractive look to these gift hampers. Make elegant bows out of these ribbons and tie them to the hamper.
  • Finally, wrap the whole basket by gathering cellophane around it. Fasten it using clear plastic tape getting all the wrapping ends together. Here again, you can tie a ribbon or stick a bow over the tape for decoration. Alternatively, you can also attach a Santa, poinsettias or snowman to the basket’s handle using a Christmas-colored pipe or wire. At last, don’t forget to add a gift tag or Christmas card to complete the look, and ensure that the recipient recognizes your identity.

In a Nutshell

With these Christmas basket decoration ideas, you are sure to design a unique hamper that looks attractive both as a gift and decoration. Let your creativity and imagination run wild in the process of designing a distinctive gift basket, and you’ll not just have a blast, but even the recipient would be extremely happy too.

 

3 Idiots – A Review by Deepika
Jan 6th, 2010 by Deepika

Life is all about listening to your heart and chasing your dreams. That’s the essence of 3 IDIOTS!

To cut a long story short, all you’d like to say about the film is, All izz very, very, very, very, very well. Watch this film to know what it means!

3 Idiots - A Review by Deepika

3 Idiots – A Review by Deepika

You go in to see 3 Idiots expecting the genius Aamir Khan to weave magic on screen.

But despite the mental conditioning, the impact of the film is so overwhelming that it leaves you spellbound for hours after it has ended.

The Story

Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan), Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi), and Rancho or Rancchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan) are three engineering students who all share the same room in a hostel at the fictional Imperial College of Engineering, one of the best colleges in India. While Farhan and Raju are mediocre students from modest backgrounds who want to lift their families out of poverty, Rancho is a wealthy genius who studies for the sheer joy of it. However, Rancho’s passion for knowledge and machine-building rather than exam rankings, conforming to the system and social climbing incurs the wrath of Professor Viru Sahastrabudhhe (ViruS) (Boman Irani).

Rancho irritates his lecturers by giving creative and unorthodox answers, and confronts ViruS after a fellow student Joy Lobo hangs himself in his dormitory room. Joy had requested an extension on his major project on compassionate grounds—his father had suffered a stroke—but ViruS refused, saying that he himself was completely unmoved by his own son’s accidental death after being hit by a train and then proceeding to phone Lobo’s ill father and inform him that his son will not be graduating. Rancho denounces the rat-run, dog-eat-dog, mindless rote learning mentality of the institution, blaming it for Lobo’s death, after which ViruS hauls his rebellious student and forces him to lecture the other students. Rancho them embarrasses the staff and students by asking them questions about non-existent concepts (Farhanitrate & Prerajulization), prompting them to search through textbooks trying to find a definition.

Threatened by Rancho’s talent and free spirit, ViruS labels him an “idiot” and attempts on a number of occasions to destroy his friendship with Farhan and Raju, warning them and their parents to steer clear of Rancho. In contrast, ViruS’ model student is Chatur Ramalingam or “Silencer,” (Omi Vaidya) who sees a high rank at the prestigious college as his ticket to higher social status, corporate power, and therefore wealth. Chatur conforms to the expectations of the system, and works by mindless rote learning, and unethical means of destroying his competition, such as trying to distract his classmates by feeding them pornography magazines. Rancho humiliates Chatur, who is awarded the honour of making a speech at an award ceremony by inserting obscenities into the text, which has been written by the librarian. Chatur proceeds to mindlessly memorise and read the speech without noticing that anything is amiss, which is littered with vulgar language directed at ViruS and the federal education minister, much to their horror, and to the students’ uproarious laughter.

Meanwhile, Rancho also falls in love with ViruS’ medical student daughter Pia (Kareena Kapoor) when he, Raju and Farhan crash her sister’s wedding banquet in order to get a free meal. This incident provokes further run-ins with ViruS, but Rancho wins over Pia after first insulting her fiancee Suhas and then demonstrating that Suhas only sees Pia’s hand in marriage as a means of furthering his career by marrying into an influential family. Rancho does this by damaging Suhas’s expensive material goods, and then confiscating Suhas’s gifts to Pia. The latter incident provokes an angry tirade from Suhas towards Pia about how much money she has lost him—he thinks that she was absent-minded and lost the present. After this, the pair fall in love and Pia saves Raju’s ill father by administering emergency treatment after he collapses.

For rest of the story, watch the movie!

Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
Jan 6th, 2010 by Deepika

Some films absorb you instantly, from the very outset. But it takes time to get into the world of a salesman who thinks from his heart.

Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year

Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year

Come to think of it, ROCKET SINGH – SALESMAN OF THE YEAR is about a simple person, but the story of his struggle and accomplishment would charge you to make a similar path in life.

In a nutshell, ROCKET SINGH – SALESMAN OF THE YEAR is a bright and wonderful experience.

Harpreet Singh Bedi [Ranbir Kapoor] has just graduated and his marks are, well, let’s say a little embarrassing. But marks never stopped him from dreaming of an exciting and adventurous career, and they never will.

He takes a deep, positive breath and dives into the world of sales, rumoured to be an ultra cool career. It’s everything he dreamt of, with its smooth dressing, smoother talking men and women who can sell ice to an Eskimo, dreams to an insomniac and a lifetime mobile connection to a dying man. But soon, his idea of success begins clashing with the strange ways of these ‘professionals’ and ‘bosses’ he looked up to.

Harpreet Singh (Ranbir Kapoor) is just out of college and he joins a computer sales and service company as a trainee. He is pure at heart and wants to be honest in his work. His forthright attitude costs him a lot in his company. He is forced to sit out and do dirty work. His boss believes in bribing and getting sales orders at any cost. Vested by the way his company treats him, Harpreet want to show his entrepreneurial skills. He floats a secret company called ‘Rocket’ and bags orders and wins loyal customers. He uses the resources and employees of the office. The rest of the story is all about what happens when his boss finds out the truth.

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