Crafty spirit is in the air..

While I stretched my fingers after working laboriously for an hour, cutting and pasting the delicate and way-too-many groves and tiny parts for Goddess Kali paper toy, I noticed there was constant smile on my face as I enjoyed every bit of it. Compare to it with the less laborious work I do in office with lesser concentration, still not a muscle move in an attempt to smile. And a sense of satisfaction as I complete the former and excitement for getting reviews when I put the final output under the eyes of everybody around and poke again and again asking "How’s it? See from this angle..Isn't it nice?" just can not be compared with anything :D because with latter, it is like.. "Good it is over now..I can take a little break.." or "ok,Now this is over, what is next in queue?"

My association with this as I call it tiny-miny creative fun things, date back to kid days, when I used to make greeting cards for all occasions(birthday,new year,diwali..and once for raksha bandhan too :-O ) for my close friends,sister,mom-dad..basically for everybody around and little woolen dolls too :D

As the time passed, quantity reduced (now, only birthday was an important occasion to make one) but quality got better with birthday cards resembling more like a diary or a assortment of cut-outs that tell a story in itself, than a plain one. Believe me, you feel so good when u spend the entire 1-2 days working solely on something like this making the creation priceless.. not because of the things pasted on it but because of your affection sewed in between...your precious time spent and most importantly, the feelings behind it..

Though this somewhat-creative streak has lost its shine in most of the college years, when I found the varied excuses for not indulging in them like "I don’t feel like making them", "I don’t have time now”, “I am too tired”, “I don’t have any new ideas" etc etc.But in last year I found an excuse to revive the spirit with something which I haven’t made before and few paper bags emerged as the parting gifts to my college friends(It was strong enough reason to make them) :)

Apart from being full of bright colors, on each was spend good 1-2 good days to draw some detailed traditional motifs all over. I hope they liked them :-/ .And last paper bag which I crafted, I deviated from my Indian traditional designs to try out some Chinese ones and this time golden painted (not sketched) those as that was for my creative-r sister. B-)

I have realized that the difficult part of moving ahead in a particular direction is that path for improvement narrows down and one has to put much of an effort to outdo oneself(I think that’s the common problem  with many things).

I hope I would be able to think of something better, more interesting, more challenging and most importantly do justice to some tiny-miny creation to keep my bubbly spirit busy and happy. :)