Paper Quilling

Paper Quilling has become my latest passion and hobby. It is always amazing to see how the small papers can turn into a wonderful art. I came to know about paper quilling when google chrome came up with new design templates. I fell in love with the design created by Yulia Brodskaya.

Paper Quilling is a very old craft. During the renaissance period it is said that nuns used to decorate the books with paper quilling. Paper Quilling is originally originated from China.

After that I got a new book “Art of Paper Quilling: Designing Handcrafted Gifts and Cards” by Claire Sun-ok choi. We can buy this book from amazon, flipkart.

This book describes about all the techniques and guidelines which an amateur should need to know. I personally didn’t go to any classes to learn about paper quilling. This book and lots of online materials helped me to start my own venture Ani Creations.

I started creating Paper quilled earrings. In our apartment mela it became a huge hit and I thought why I don’t take this to next level. I created my own facebook page Anicreations.chennai.

Next for my friend’s sister wedding when we were planning to decide what gift we should give, my mom suggested why don’t you make a framed paper quilling. And I did one of the projects with butterfly and flowers.

The paper required for this quilling can be of 10mm, 5mm, 3mm. 3mm is suitable for all kinds of projects. And it gives a beautiful finish. For the first time learner 10 mm or 5mm should be good as it will be helpful for having a grip on the project they are doing.

The basic shapes which will be needed to do a simple project can be tight roll, loose coil, teardrop, and marquise.

There are also lots of good blogspot which one can refer if they are interested; Inna’s Creation has lots of amazing projects. Below is the link for her blogs.

http://increations.blogspot.in/p/paper-quilling.html

In Chennai Quilling papers are available in all craft shops. In Adyar RK shopping Centre and Anada paper mart has quilling paper. Learn this art and enjoy it.

Labels: Paper craft, paper quilling

Schezwan Egg fry

I am a great fan of Chinese cuisine. Any time when I am hungry, the food items which comes into my mind are Chinese foods.

Making Authentic Chinese food was difficult until Ching's came to India. They have variety of sauces, Noodles, Soup Mixes, Instant Noodles, Sauce Mix.

Recently I came across their Schezwan Stir fry sauce in one of the grocery shop. It was an amazing sauce. It was so easy to use and it can be used to create variety of dishes.

If we mix the sauce with yogurt/ mayonnaise, Schezwan dip is ready. This dip was wonderful with nuggets and other fried items.

This stir fry sauce can be used as spreads for pizza, omelette and also can be used for making fried rice and noodle

The other day while I was doing experiment in my kitchen I came up with my own recipe - Schezwan Egg fry. It tasted good so I thought I will share the recipe with you.

Ingredients:

Ching's Schezwan Stir fry sauce
Spring Onion for garnish
Onion
Capsicum
Garlic
Eggs
Vegetable Oil
Salt

Preparation

Cut onion and capsicum in length wise. Heat the wok. Add oil and in high flame add Onion, Capsicum, Add 2-3 table spoon of Ching's Schezwan Stir Fry Sauce.
In another pan make egg scramble, while beating up the egg add little salt and pepper.
Add the Scrambled egg to the wok and stir it, garnish it with spring onion.
Your Schezwan Egg Fry is ready.

It was a very easy recipe but the taste was amazing.

Labels: chinese cuisine, Ching's sauce, cooking, recipe

My First 3D Neuschwanstein Castle Puzzle

3D Puzzle - Cubic Fun - Neuschwanstein Castle

I needed a castle for decorating for one of my cousin wedding. I was looking everywhere for nice castle which can be used. The moment I saw the Neushwanstein Castle I fell in love with the castle.

I was searching to buy this castle and I came across 3D Puzzle which you can assemble on your own. As I am a puzzle lover I thought let me try it. Cubic Fun has lots of great 3D puzzle. As I am from India, Amazon was not shipping this product and it was very costly. I searched so much and found that, the product is available in FirstCry for a lesser price.

http://www.firstcry.com/frank/frank-3d-puzzle-cubic-fun-neuschwanstein-castle/1820/product-detail

I got the product within two days and I was really impressed in speedy delivery. I started assembling the product right away and it took three hours to complete it. The end product was very stunning.The instruction was crystal clear and very easy to assemble.