Re-cycling a new unused / used salwar into a Kurti!

Its yet another recycle idea! - Days when we used to buy ordinary salwar kameez sets have replaced the era of kurtis now. Instead of the salwars, Jeans have combined with the kurtis more so beautifully. And there lie all the salwars of all the kameezes unused, untouched and new!. One such salwar has found new life and got converted into a kurti!

PS:
Before I begin to explain, Patiala Salwars are the best ones to recycle into kurtis since there's ample cloth available! :-) Am sure, there may be a lot of you who have fallen in love with Patiala salwars and impulsively bought them. Used them once or twice but realised that they are not your style or you may not have been able to carry them off easily! Right!

And so there they might be lying in your wardrobes eating up space. So go ahead bring them all out and use the space for clothes which you might want to use ( Instead of buying new ones, convert them into usable stuff!) but have been stacked up unevenly and avoid them falling on you and showing their anger! when you open the wardrobe! :-) It happened to me and so , these corrective actions from my end!

Here's how I did it:

• Removed stitches of the salwar
• Spread the cloth out on the floor and figure out how to replace them in a running thaan manner. (Apologies for my thoughtlessness for not having taken pictures while I was at the job, had done this project about 4 months ago!)
• Stitch them back like how a running material will look (you may not be able to revive it 100 % back to its original form obviously. But somewhere close.
• Give it to a good receptive tailor who willingly will do it for you. My experience is that, I was lucky to get hold of a tailor then who did it for me. But since he was under paid , he quit his job and unfortunately cannot trace him!
• My gut feel is that any start up tailor looking for business in any form will do alterations willingly. Have seen quite a few moms of school going kids (Without babies to worry about), having the time, having tailoring skills, having a sewing machine and desperately wanting to put the combinations together , will do it for you!

All you need to do is 2 things :-)

•  watch out for such people around you, for all you know you might find such lovely women in your own friend circles! (Waiting with potential magic in their hands!!)
• Make as many friends!

 Unless you give it a close look, am sure you cannot make out that its a salwar converted into a kurti!

Happy Recycling!

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A Family Holiday!

Holidaying in Ooty, drove down with family, visiting all the view points - Lamb's rock, Dolphin's Nose, Boating at Pykara Lake and Ooty Lake.

After few experiments at various hotels,2 places had the best 'Available' :-) Food. One at Nahar group of hotels and the other at Preethi Hotel opposite the Hindi Prachar Sabha.

Good times at Coonoor club, Gymkhana Club. Food at Gymkhana , limited choices but tasty tasty food! Just that they go high on lavang and bay leaf!

The UNESCO certified Hill Train with the famous Alternate Braking System - Ooty - Coonoor - Ooty. Awesome Awesome Awesome. My 7 yr old freaked out yelling with all the others in and out of the 3 tunnels enroute! Trip is still on!!

Inspite of few of us in family falling sick in turns for a day (due to the experiments with food I guess!). We are going good. Having a great time away from the summer heat in Bangalore (We call it the time of Agni Nakshatram - when the Sun's rays are at its peak on this part of the earth).

Happy Blogging!!

April Showers!!

Thanks oh Rain God!  for being so kind on us bangaloreans oh sorry, Bengaluruians, that you showered all over Bengaluru. At the same time, you are being nice enough to let our clothes dry sufficiently before you begin your night rounds :-). But I hate what your clouds do, they just scare the shit out of me, 2 hours after I line my clothes out in the
S(h)un.

Its okay if your clouds want to get funny for a while and play hide and seek with the poor Sun God, who seems to have lost his powers temporarily.

But not at the cost of my fears :-(
1pm - uff, look dark clouds , its  gonna rain..lemme take the clothes away and put them in, I take them all in
1.45pm - Sun Shows up! for about 15 minutes, I get tempted, fall for it
2.00pm - Take all the clothes back to the clothes line, only to be greeted by pitch dark clouds at 2.15pm..
2.15pm to 3 pm - Wait with bated breath, pacing up and down my children's room watching them play. No more patience, to see those dark clouds, fortunately clothes dry sufficiently enough!

One might not want to go through this and consider buying a dryer instead to challenge the Rain God during monsoons or sudden showers like these. But when one looks at the ecological damage one would be doing by using electricity in Indian situations. It is a blind sin! with the amounts of powercuts and the 'southela' treatment our UPS's go through! Its a blind sin!

So Rain God, please be considerate! Hope to have more of you early mornings and nights! What Say!