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Your walls are not just brick and paint… they are what you look at hundreds and thousands and maybe millions of times. Imagine just entering your home after a stressful day, and looking at walls that welcomed you, lifted your mood, and took your mind off the mundane problems of life! Well, here are a bunch of ideas that can transform bare walls and fill corners of the home with little bits of beauty… and -
We were searching and searching for an eco-friendly non-plastic Christmas Tree… we combed the colourful Bandra shops glittering with Christmas decor, only to find them full of plastic things. Last year, faced with a similar dilemma, after a long search we bought a real Juniper plant, and made miniature clay ornaments to decorate it; but sadly the Juniper couldn’t survive the Mumbai weather. So this year, we used our own paper decorations… DIY Christmas Ornaments -
Come December, and the holiday spirit surreptitiously seeps into the skin… you start humming Christmas carols without realising it, and even here in hot tropical Mumbai, giant snowflakes become a common sight! It doesn’t matter if you are a Church-goer or not… Christmas is to the year, what Sunday is to a long work week… especially this crazy year, 2021. One of my favourite parts of Christmas is the ‘decking the halls’ bit! It’s a time -
Some flowers never fade away… That’s why we love paper flowers so much! There are so many hundreds of ways to make flowers out of all kinds of paper; we’ll show you some of the easiest and prettiest ones in this post. We try to work with material that you’ll be able to find easily, and standard tools like scissors, pencil and craft glue; you won’t need any professional tools, or moulds. 1. Mini Bouquet -
Making and binding tiny mini books, is one of our favourite things to do. 🙂 Many a time, when I get too stressed out, or have too many thoughts in my head, I do this. Sometimes by myself, sometimes with my 11-year-old daughter. I always emerge an hour and a couple of mini-books later, with a much calmer mind, a smile on my face and gloriously grubby hands from which Fevicol can be removed layer by layer -
A few years ago, the Victoria & Albert Museum had curated an exhibit called ‘The Power of Making’. It really expresses what Sky Goodies believes in, so we quote from one of their curators below: About Making.Making is the most powerful way that we solve problems, express ideas and shape our world. When you are absorbed in making, things happen that you didn’t plan. The experience can be intuitive, like sport, and it can be
