Photo Collage with old Cd/DVDs

This beautiful collage of pictures would make any wall of your house a family wall.
Things you would need:
10-15 old CDs/DVDs
Fevicol/ Fevibond
Satin Lace
10-15 family/individual photos

Procedure:
1. Arrange the CDs in whatever shape/arrangement you prefer. You dont need to work on the design too much as just putting everything together all the CDs will also make a unique design of its own
2. Stick the CDs in such a way that only the edges are stuck, there should be enough space for the photographs.
3. Till the CDs stick to each other for some time, cut the photos in circles. Let the circles be smaller than the CD so that the texture of CD can be seen.
You can make a round stencil and cut the photos or cut one photo round and use that as a marker for others.
4. Stick satin ribbon at the back and make sure it is strong enough to hold the weight of the CDs. Collage of CDs becomes heavy, so the string holding it should be strong enough to hold the weight on wall.
5. Stick the photos which are cut in round shape on each CD.

Tips:
1. Dont use closeups for this collage. AFter cutting them round, it will become very on the face types
2. Dont use photos with too many people or very small faces, they will be hardly seen from a distance
3. Arrange the color combination of photos before you stick the photos
4. CDs/DVDs are also of different colors like steel blue, silver, copper so select single color CDs/DVDs so that the highlight is your photos and not the varied colors of the CDs.
5. Enjoy the activity with your kids and adore your creativity everytime you see the collage! :)

Khushi's dose of the day!! Part 2(9th April 2013)

Khushi was super excited to get a big water gun on Holi this time. It did not take her long to understand the complex functioning of the gun. While playing with water she inquired

Khushi: Mummy how much water can be filled in this water bag?
Mummy : Around 2-3 bottles (liters)
Khushi : How much water is required to play holi with Shivji?
Mummy : What? Play holi with whom?
Khushi : Shivji, Ganesh's Papa! Bholenath!! How much water he needs to take bath or to get wet?
Mummy : (Thinking,,,where does this question come from?? But now I need to answer,,,soo) Shivji is very very big, he needs alot of water. It needs to rain to wet him.So whenever he wants to bathe, he asks the rain God to pour!!
Khushi: OK!!

Couple of days later, we were crossing the KempFort Shiv temple. On the entrance they have made a huge Shivling where continously water is dripping from a Kalash and falling on the Shivling!

Khushi: Mummy see, Shivji is taking a bath! But where is the rain?

             

I could have never thought of this association of holi, shivji and rain unless we crossed Shiv temple of KempFort. She is showing me, everyday a new perspective to things!! Things I think we adults never notice (Proof is that, I couldn't get a single photo of that entrance on internet). 

Khushi's dose of the day!! (9th April 2013)

It was Khushi's 4th birthday on Saturday. My parents had come down for her birthday and they gifted studs (earrings) to her on her birthday. She liked it but didnt seem to excited about it. So next day they wanted me to buy something that she would look excited about. So knowing her inclination towards cosmetics and dressing up, I decided to buy a Dressing kit on behalf of them. The dressing kit had mock hair dryer, rollers, nail paint, lip stick, blusher, clips, clutch-er etc.

As expected, as soon as she opened that gift all the other birthday gifts have faded from her mind and sight. Just to guage the impact of fashion on the little mind I asked her to name each of the elements and she without any second thought named each one of them along with their use. Only one element was a new discovery for her and the conversation was followed as below


Mummy : So what is this?
Khushi : I dont know this one! What is it?
Mummy : These are rollers!
Khushi : Rollers? What are they used for?
Mummy : The other day you saw a girl with curly hair right? These rollers can give temporary curls to the hair.
Khushi : Show me how to put them?
Mummy : Come I will put the rolls on your hair
Khushi : No curly hair will not suit me, it will suit you. You put it on your hair and show me!

So now I have a stylist at home who is all set to tell me what hair style will suit me and what not!! :)

Khushi's dose of the day!! (1st April 2013)

We played holi in our apartement on this saturday and after 4 hrs of non-stop masti, color and dancing, I am dead tired. All my efforts to remove the color from my face went in vain and I resembled the daemons from Khushi's Chota Bheem cartoon. Khushi gave me some disgusting expressions and asked

Khushi: Mummy, you are not looking good!! You are pink and green all over your face

Mummy : Khushi its ok, I played holi so the colors havent gone yet. They will take couple of days to go.

Khushi : Why did you play holi at the first place? You are so tired, you are looking horrifying! I didnt like it at all!! 

Mummy : Beta because I like to play holi. Everybody should do what they like, I like dancing, I like playing with colors, so I played holi. See its simple, you enjoy going to Forum, going for rides, having chocolates, so I make sure you have your bit of fun on weekends. Papa likes watching cricket, going to restaurants etc so he does that. Similarly, Mummy also has her list of likes and dislikes and you may not like something Mummy likes, but that does not mean Mummy will stop doing that!

Khushi spread the Johnsons baby powder all over my room and put alot of powder in the Winnie the Pooh  cart and was playing with it. I entered the room and screamed at her for creating such a mess!!

Khushi innocently and annoyingly replied!!

Khushi: Mummy I like it!! I had created snow in the room with the powder. You only told me that we should do whatever we like!