Holiday time, Christmas Time

Latest Christmas Wallpapers, Printable Greetings & More

Hello Everyone,

It's holiday time!! Most amazing time of the year...

Everyone is so busy during the entire year. But to get relaxed and get that whole bag of energy back the most awaited holidays have arrived.

Make these Holidays, Christmas and the New Year special by sending amazing greetings to your dear and near ones. 

To help you all with the same I have been working around preparing amazing wallpapers, greetings, party invitation etc. I am gonna share those over here and you guys can use them for personal and commercial purpose too. So here we go....

Christmas greetings

Snowman Christmas Greetings

Ho..ho..ho

Merry Christmas

Christmas Party Invitation

P.S. I am still in process of making these. I will be posting them as I complete. There are lots more to come. Stay tuned....

Happy Holidays!! Merry Christmas

Diwali Special Wallpapers

Diwali Special: Greetings and Wallpapers

Hello Friends,

How are you all??

Let's celebrate the festival of lights.. lets spread into everyones life peace, prosperity, pleasure and good health...  

I have made few greetings or wallpapers for Diwali and New Year which I will be attaching below. Feel free to use them for business greetings or can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Happy Diwali and Happy New Year!!!

P.S. 

I am working on few other images. and I will be uploading them soon. Stay tuned 😊

Diwali Diya Golden Wallpaper

Happy Diwali

New Year Greeting

Diwali colorful wallpaper

Few more added...

Deepavali Wallpaper

Happy Diwali

Diwali Diyas

Healthy Bhakhri Pizza

Healthy Bhakhri Pizza

Hello folks,

Healthy eating and simple living is the secret to better life. This is very true but in today's world people get fade up with eating that simple food. People think that boiled food is for the old ones. Many of them may try healthy simple boiled food but skip it after seeing those yummy, hot, spicy and tasty street food.

Don't you think we should make food that is healthy and at the same time tempting. Though it is not going to help you as the boiled food but it is far more better than the street food you love.

With the thought in mind for the health version of a most tempting dish I tried my hands on Bhakhri Pizza. Yeah, it's healthy and tempting at the same time.

For the one's who don't know what is bhakhri? Let me brief it out. Bhakhri is a Indian flat bread made from wheat flour. It's almost thick like a think crust pizza base.

Now, without wasting much more time let's jump to over tempting recipe.

Healthy Bhakhri Pizza

Ingredients:

For making Bhakhri

2 cup wheat flour

2 tbsp butter

1 tbsp mixed herbs

Pinch of salt

Water as required

For topping

1 cup chopped onions

1 cup chopped capsicum

1 cup boiled corn 

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp Chilli flakes

1 tsp Italian seasoning

1 cup home made pizza sauce

1 cup cheese

Method:

For Bhakhri dough:

• In a bowl, mix all the ingredients of bhakhri and knead into a dough. Dough needs to be hard than the one we prepare for pizza dough.
• Keep the dough aside for 1 hr.
• Now, take a small portion of dough and roll it to a flat bread.
• On a slow flame, roast this flat bread. You need to press bit using a cloth to make it really good.
• Once ready keep it a side.

For toppings:

• In a pan, take olive oil and add the onion, capsicum and corn to it.
• Cook it for 5mins, now add salt, Italian seasoning, Chilli flakes to it. Turn off the flame and let it cool down.
• Next take our bhakhri, spread home made pizza sauce or ready made pizza sauce over it. Top it with the veggies mixes. Lastly, spread grated cheese over it.
• Bake it in the oven untill the cheese melts.

Our Healthy Bhakhri Pizza is ready to eat.

Serve it with ketchup.

Happy Cooking!!

Sweet Braid Buns

Sweet Braid Buns

Sweet Braid Buns

Hello Friends,

I am back with ma special sweet bun recipe. Yeah, it's ma first time. And as you can see it turned out to be great. Isn't it? Well it tasted great too 😋

Today evening I had some spare time in my hands so thought of using it and try some delicious food. 

When I opened my fridge, found a unused package of dry yeast. That's when a thought of making these delicious sweet braid buns came to ma mind.

Quickly wore my apron and collected the required ingredients and got started with ma dish.

Here goes my recipe of Sweet Braid Buns....

Ingredients

2 cup all purpose flour

1 cup whole wheat flour

½ cup warm milk

½ cup water

1 tbsp dry yeast

1 tbsp sugar

½ cup chopped dry fruits

½ cup melted white chocolate

2 tbsp grated dry coconut

2 tbsp ghee

1 tbsp suger

Milk for brushing

Method

To prepare dough

In water, add dry yeast and sugar. Mix well untill sugar and yeast dissolves. Place a lid on the bowl and allow yeast to activate for 10mins.

In meantime, grab the all purpose flour and add whole wheat flour to it. Add warm milk to it. Now, take the activated yeast and add it to the flour. Knead it proper with light hands. 

Cover the dough and place it aside for half hour. It will raise double from it's original size.

To prepare stuffing

Heat a pan, add ghee to it. Add dry fruits to it. Let it fry till golden brown. Add dry coconut and sugar next. Now off the stove. After 5mins add melted white chocolate to it. Mix well. Let it cool for some time.

Grab our dough and divide it into 6 equal parts. Roll it into a ball. Spread the ball to flat with hands. With help of knife make cuts for braid. Now place the stuffing in center. Place strips overlapping each other in form of braid.

Prepare all of them. Brush the braid with milk. Let's bake them for 10mins.

Our Sweet Braid Buns are ready to eat. I enjoyed them a lot with rain. 

Happy Cooking!!

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate loved by all and can solve all sorts of problems isn't it?

Few days back, it was my birthday and I thought of giving surprise treat to all my office colleges. After thinking for hours of what can be done I came to a conclusion: Chocolate Truffles. 

Why chocolate truffles? Mainly due to two reasons. Firstly, chocolate is loved by all and over here in my city we don't find bakery selling Chocolate Truffles so definitely everyone was going to be amazed. Secondly, I had never tried these colorful treats so new experience and new recipe to be added to the list.

Here goes my Chocolate Truffles recipe...

Ingredients

2 cup All purpose flour

1 cup butter

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp baking soda

1 tbsp baking powder

4 tbsp drinking Chocolate

2 tbsp Coco powder

1 cup warm milk

1 cup water

1 cup Choco chips

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp cream

1 cup melted Dark Chocolate

1/2 cup melted white chocolate

Sparklers

Method

Mix the dry ingredients first. In another bowl, add butter, milk, vanilla extract and mix well. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together. Pour this batter to the tray and bake it just like the normal Chocolate cake base. Once ready, let it cool.

Now, crumble your base and add chocolate chips to it. Add cream to the crumble and mix well to dough. Make small bowls from it. Freeze the balls for 30mins. 

Dip all the balls in the dark chocolate and freeze again. Once dark chocolate gets freeze using spoon pour some white chocolate over it. Sprinkle sparklers over it and refreeze it.

Chocolate Truffles

Our Chocolate Truffles are ready. Looks good isn't it? Do try at home and let me know your feedback.

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's day

Happy Father's Day

Dad are the best. They play with you, teach you cool stuff, buy you favorite stuff, give you hug and support you when you are sad.

In honour to all the things father's do for us world is celebrating Father's Day. It is celebrated on 3rd Sunday of June every year.

Approximately 40 countries are celebrating this day across the world. Honoring father and fatherhood.

Father is a person who
Let’s you experiment life in your own way and pulls you up when you fall.
Let’s you get angry on him and loves you more after that.
Let’s you see things your own way and then gives his view point.
Is with you always, especially when you need him!

Nice words right? Let's honor the dads who does everything for their families.

We can't be in this world without our fathers. They have dependably been the one solid man in our lives, and they have constantly treated us with a stern yet cherishing hand. We have dependably admired them as a motivation as the years progressed. We will never stop to take after their strides and will dependably settle on the correct choice like they have shown us.

Regardless of how famous or fruitful we are, however our first character is that of somebody's child or little girl. Salute to all fathers!

Make this day special for King of your land by spending entire day with him and undertake activities that he love the most.

Happy Father's Day!!!

Cheese Chilli Corn Toast

Cheese Chilli Corn Toast

Cheese Chilli Corn Toast

Hello Everyone,

Today I am going share with you all a yummy and cheesy Recipe. I am going to write this post real quick so that I can have my toast :p

Our today's recipe is Cheese Chilli Corn Toast, yeah as the name suggests its going to be full of cheese. This is an Indian street  side recipe. Most popular in Mumbai. Cheese loves do try this at your home.

Ingredients required for chutney:

1 cup mint leaves

1 cup  coriander leaves

3 green chillies

Salt to taste

1 tbsp jaggery

1 tsp black salt

3 tsp lemon juice

Ingredients required for stuffing:

1 cup grated cabbage

1 cup chopped onions

1 cup chopped capsicum

1 potato boiled and mashed

1 cup boiled corn

1 tbsp black pepper

1 tsp black salt

2 tbsp butter

Salt to taste

Cheese cubes

1 tsp mix herbs

Process:

To make chutney:

In the grinding bowl, take all the ingredients and add some water to it. Grind it to fine paste.

To make stuffing:

Heat a pan, add butter to it.

Once butter gets melt, add onion, cabbage, capsicum, corn and potato to it. Saute it for some time.

Now add salt, black pepper and black salt to it. Mix well.

Cook for 5mins and light off the store.

Let the mixture cool for some time.

Take a bread slice, apply chutney on it, top the mixture on it. Now, grate cheese on it. Sprinkle herbs on to it.

Grill it for 5mins.

Your Cheese Chilli Corn Toast is ready to eat. Do try it yourself and let me know your feedbacks.

Happy Cooking!!

Environment Day

World Environment Day

Every year on 5 June celebrated as World Environment Day, is an United Nation's principle vehicle to spread awareness and action for protection of our environment.

World Environment Day is observed from 1974, for raising awareness on emerging environmental issues.

Over 143 countries participate in the campaign to spread awareness.

Every year there is a new theme for the world environment day celebration. Theme are based on current emerging issues from marine pollution and global warming to wildlife crime.

List of the theme that have been observed in past are as below:

Source: Wikipedia

Year	Theme	Host city
1974	Only one Earth during Expo '74	Spokane, United States
1975	Human Settlements	Dhaka, Bangladesh
1976	Water: Vital Resource for Life	Canada
1977	Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil Degradation	Sylhet, Bangladesh
1978	Development Without Destruction	Sylhet, Bangladesh
1979	Only One Future for Our Children – Development Without Destruction	Sylhet, Bangladesh
1980	A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development Without Destruction	Sylhet, Bangladesh
1981	Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains	Sylhet, Bangladesh
1982	Ten Years After Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns)	Dhaka, Bangladesh
1983	Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy	Sylhet, Bangladesh
1984	Desertification	Rajshahi, Bangladesh
1985	Youth: Population and the Environment	Pakistan
1986	A Tree for Peace	Ontario, Canada
1987	Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof	Nairobi, Kenya
1988	When People Put the Environment First, Development Will Last	Bangkok, Thailand
1989	Global Warming; Global Warning	Brussels, Belgium
1990	Children and the Environment	Mexico City, Mexico
1991	Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership	Stockholm, Sweden
1992	Only One Earth, Care and Share	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1993	Poverty and the Environment – Breaking the Vicious Circle	Beijing, People's Republic of China
1994	One Earth One Family	London, United Kingdom
1995	We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment	Pretoria, South Africa
1996	Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home	Istanbul, Turkey
1997	For Life on Earth	Seoul, Republic of Korea
1998	For Life on Earth – Save Our Seas	Moscow, Russian Federation
1999	Our Earth – Our Future – Just Save It!	Tokyo, Japan
2000	The Environment Millennium – Time to Act	Adelaide, Australia
2001	Connect with the World Wide Web of Life	Torino, Italy and Havana, Cuba
2002	Give Earth a Chance	Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
2003	Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!	Beirut, Lebanon
2004	Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive?	Barcelona, Spain
2005	Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!	San Francisco, United States
2006	Deserts and Desertification – Don't Desert Drylands!	Algiers, Algeria
2007	Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?	London, England
2008	Kick The Habit – Towards A Low Carbon Economy	Wellington, New Zealand
2009	Your Planet Needs You – Unite to Combat Climate Change	Mexico City, Mexico
2010	Many Species. One Planet. One Future	Rangpur, Bangladesh
2011	Forests: Nature at your Service	New Delhi, India
2012	Green Economy: Does it include you?	Brazil
2013	Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint	Mongolia
2014	Raise your voice, not the sea level	barbados
2015	Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care.	Italy
2016	Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife trade	Angola
2017	Connecting People to Nature – in the city and on the land, from the poles to the equator	Canada

Happy Mother's Day: Celebration of Motherhood

Happy Mother's Day: Celebration of Motherhood

Happy Mother's Day

"Mother" or "Maa", when heard the only thing you can imagine is picture of your mother, her favorite words, her love, her care, sacrifices and what not.

Mother is that backbone of the family without whom no family can be complete. She the person who brought you to this  world and this is the most beautiful and biggest gift to you from her. She is the only person who will be staying with you from your birth to death no matter whatever take place.

Mother's Day is the celebration of Motherhood and influence of mother's love, care and sacrifice. Just a day of celebration for this special person is not enough. We should celebrate it everyday. Celebration for her is not always the material goods you gift her. You will never ever pay the cost of what she does for you and your family.

Material goods have the time limit instead creating sweet memories by means of loving, caring and understanding will remain for lifetime.

Some ways I would suggest to celebrate Mother's Day everyday are:

• Wishing her good morning with a cup of tea or coffee with a big smile on your face. She will feel so much energized and happy. A day began happy will be spent happy.
• Help her with the households. She will gain strength and not feel lonely.
• At times, treat her in her favorite restaurant or even cook a dish she loves the most.
• Spare some time to talk to her. Discuss your problems and future plans. Update her with what's going on around.
• Hug her when she is upset. 
• Understand her in every situation.
• Gift her something that she loved and wished to buy but due to some reason was not able to buy it.
• Last but not the least, say "Thank You" to her everyday for small small things or for no reason.

I hope your mother will like this. Let me know, if you have some other ways to show your love and care to your mother which made her day.

Let's celebrate Mother's Day everyday...

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Vacation Time: Reusing Colors with Scratch Paint

Vacation Time: Reusing Colors with Scratch Paint

Howdy Friends?..

Enjoying your summer vacation? Or guys out there are getting bored in free time?

Well, if that's the case I am hear with ma new post. I am dawm sure you all gonna love this colorful post.

Have you ever thought how everything would look if there were no colors? Ya.. just for few minutes imagine what if everything was in black and white color.

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Dull and boring isn't it??

And now what about this one..

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Interesting and pleasing to eyes right?

That's the place of colors in our lives. Colors are believed to improve someone's​ mood too. Even a single brush of color can be attractive.

Let's reuse our old paints and crayons and make something that fills our lives with beautiful colors.

Art for kids : Scratch Art

This one is so so easy and magical that your kids can do it by themselves without your guidance.

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This the art that I used to do during ma childhood. It requires minimum things and it is very easy to be made by your kids themselves.

Art for teens/adults : Scratch Paint

Now this one is for the teens and adults to play with. This is similar to what we have done for kids but the only difference is we are going to use only black acrylic color.

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This thing on old CDs looks like a master piece isn't it?

Vacation Time: Drawing on Old Books

Upcycle Old Books by Drawings

Hurrah!!! Vacation Begins...

It's time for the most awaited vacation for kids... Summer vacation. Time for a short break from the daily routines for kids and families. Time to live together. Enjoying and creating memories for lifetime.

This is the time of the year when kids are free from their studies and enjoying their free time. Many activities kids love to participate in during their vacation. Best time to utilize for building creativity.

To help you all building your creative today I am here with my this diy blog post. So, first let me know your answer to this question : what you are going to do with your old books?

Old Books

I know the answer would be throwing away, lending to someone, giving away to waste paper collector or piling the old books in a corner of the house. Have you ever thought of using these old books for making something creative? If not yet, then let's do it now. 

My this post is about how to enhance your creativity by drawing in old books pages. I am going to share with you some of the draws and then you can imagine and using your creativity drae something new.

Let me tell you a secret: using old books to draw will save some money and not to worry about shortage of pages :-P

Drawing on old pages

This one is the simplest way to Upcycle old books. Any age group can participate in it. Based on your drawing skills you can draw anything on the old pages and give it a new look. Even the easiest and simplest picture looks great on it.

Kids are going to love these simple, quick and adorable piece of art. 

Flowers (source)

Cute Owl (source)

Adorable girl (source)

Painting flowers (source)

The moon (source)

Aren't these really really awesome??

You can draw or paint anything you like everything looks great. Also, this will be a relaxing activity in summer and of course a great way to pass time.

Do try this and share your piece of art with me.

Happy Drawing!!
Happy Vacation!!!

Earth Day

Earth Day

Earth Day

Hello Everyone!! 

We are in the mid of April and all the environment lovers are waiting the day which is celebrated for environment protection. 

Yes, you got me correct. Soon it will be 22nd April which globe celebrate as Earth day in the significance of environment protection.

Earth day was observed in 1970 for the first time. Today, around 193 countries have joined together to celebrate it. 

Various events are organized worldwide to celebrate this day. This year March for Science will occur on 22nd April 2017 along with Earth Day.

Earth Day Anthem

There many songs that are being sung on Earth Day. But there is a very creative and inspiring song by an Indian that would bring world together. This is considered as an Earth Day Anthem. It is translated in 8 different languages.

Our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl
the most beautiful planet in the universe
all the continents and the oceans of the world
united we stand as flora and fauna
united we stand as species of one earth
black, brown, white, different colours
we are humans, the earth is our home.

Our cosmic oasis, cosmic blue pearl
the most beautiful planet in the universe
all the people and the nations of the world
all for one and one for all
united we unfurl the blue marble flag
black, brown, white, different colours
we are humans, the earth is our home."

“

"Earth Anthem" by Abhay K

Also there is another song or anthem by William Walance which is played on this day.

"Joyful joyful we adore our Earth in all its wonderment

Simple gifts of nature that all join into a paradise
Now we must resolve to protect her
Show her our love throughout all time
With our gentle hand and touch
We make our home a newborn world
Now we must resolve to protect her
Show her our love throughout all time
With our gentle hand and touch

We make our home a newborn world"

Let us all joint together this April 22 for our mother Earth and celebrate this day for environmental protection. Let us all encourage everyone to protect our mother Earth.

Happy Earth Day!!

Ram Navmi

Ram Navmi

Hello Everyone!!!

Another festival is in the queue for celebration over here in India : Ram Navmi

It is celebration of birth of Lord Rama. This festival is celebration during spring. Lord Ram and his birth is very important to the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism.

Ram Navmi is observed during the Gujarati month called Chaitra. It is celebrated during chaitri navratri. The ninth day of bright half is celebrated as Ram Navmi. According to english calendar it is during March or April every year.

Lord Rama is believed to be the 7th avatar of Lord Vishnu.

Ram Navmi is not a major festival so no national holiday observed during this day.

On this day, people perform various rituals based on their beliefs. Some go to Temple for prays while some perform rituals at home. There are community get together. People offer Pooja and aarti on this day.

This festival is mostly observed in the North Indian states like Uttar Padesh, Bihar and even in Nepal.

Rathayatras, the Chariot procession is also taken out on this day at some places.

One can learn so many things from the life of Lord Rama. The art of performing ones duties as an obedient son, respectful brother, ideal husband and humble leader is all what he taught us.

Not to forget Lord Rama is at center on the religious book Ramayan. There so much to learn from this book. It is suggested that everyone should read Ramayan once in their life time.

Happy Ram Namvi!!!

Gudi Padwa : Maharashtrian Festival

Gudi Padwa : Maharashtrian Festival

Gudi Padwa is one of the most celebrated festival in Maharashtra.

 

It is celebrated as the beginning of the traditional Hindu year and the festival day is the first day of the Chaitra month of the Hindu calendar.

The Marathi name for the festival is ‘Chaitra Shukla Pratipata’. Festival is celebrated to welcome the Hindu New Year.

In general, major Vedic festivals and cultural events mark the welcome ceremony of the March month as it is the spring which is closely associated with agriculture. 

Considering as the significant traditional festival, Gudi Padwa is known by various names across the country such as Gudi Padva in Mrathi, Ugadi in Telugu and Yugadi in Kannada.

Just like there are reasons behind the occurrence of natural events, every cultural festival in India has a reason behind its celebration. 

The entire celebration of Gudi Padwa revolves around three major reasons:

• It is believed that Lord Brahma created the cosmic universe on this day. When the worship of Lord Brahma is complete, the Gudi is hoisted and Lord Vishny is invoked to shower his blessings upon the worshipper and his family.

• LordRama, Hanuman- the incarnation of Lord Vishnu returned to Ayodhya after slaying the demon king Ravana and rescuing Sita. If we take a look at our history, Maharashtrian people observed this as a day of victory by their supreme and well loved ruler Shivaji Maharaj. The victory flag is hoisted to honour the courage and victory of this great ruler and the Gudi is decorated with the first bloom of fresh mango leaves. A silk cloth of yellow colour is draped across the Gudi and adorned with red flowers. The yellow and red colours are believed to be auspicious and symbols of fertility and well being. The area is also decorated around the Gudi. Special delicacies and sweet dishes are also prepared on this occasion.

• Gudi Padwa marks another historical event, the victory of the Sakas over the Huns. But the most important significance of the Gudi Padwa is the creation of the universe by Lord Brahma. This has been mentioned in the Brahma Purana too, where the Satyayug commenced from this very day after the creation of the universe. The day is also considered auspicious because the divine consciousness which emanates during the early sunrise, if absorbed, lasts longer.