Gingerbread House

This year I got a gingerbread house kit from Costco. It came with everything including the candy and icing for decorating the cookie house. I helped Hrishika in putting the house together using icing. She did the decorating with candy. All in all it was a fun project for the holidays. I would highly recommend buying a kit instead of making everything from scratch. It is a big time saver.

WINTER is ........

Waking up and I see raining rainy weather.

Icicles hanging down from my house.

North pole I shouted, I'm in the northpole.

Time to open presents mom said.

Excited me I told my mom the story.

Recognized me it was just a dream!

Bracelets

Paper Butterfly

Color Me Mine: Purse

Hrishika's cousin, Ashi celebrated her 8th birthday at Color Me Mine. Hrishika got to paint this ceramic purse as part of the birthday celebration.

Blue Purse

Yesterday we had been to a Arts and Crafts fair at the local high school. There we saw a lot of crafts. Hrishika and her grandma decided to make their own purse. As soon as they got home they got started. They used adhesive foam to make this purse. Hrishika in fact took it with her to a store the very next day.

Letter To Santa

Believe it or not it is that time of the year again. Yes the holiday season is nearing .... This weekend in the target toy catalog we found a link for kids to print out some games and crafts. One of them was letter to Santa. So my daughter immediately made her dad print it for her and this is what she wrote in it ....

Dear Santa,

for Crishmas I will like you to get me Shimmering Lights
Ariel Doll, Disney Project and Draw, The Little Mermaid Shimmering Lights
Dolphin Chariot, a princess wath (she means watch). It's ok to only give me one
or two but if you do plese get the Disney Project and Draw. i will also like
Little Mermaid Ariel's Ocean Salon.

from Hrishika

Diwali Rangoli

Hrishika watched her grandma do rangoli for our Indian festival, Diwali. She got inspired watching her grandma and made her own rangoli in a steel plate which you see above. She made a diya using kum kum powder ( red colour ) and rice flour ( white colour ). She made some decorations around the diya using turmeric powder (yellow colour). Next she placed a small heart shaped tea light candle on the plate.

Considering she is only 6 years old and her first attempt at rangoli, I think it is a masterpiece!!!

Hrishika's Princess Scrapbook

The other day I was cleaning up Hrishika's room and came across this disney princess book, "My Princess Life". There are a few entries which are hilarious and I wanted to share that. Keep in mind she had just turned 5 when she wrote all this.

The following is from her Disney Princess book, "My Princess Life". These are her answers to some of the questions in the book. I wrote down her answers in orange, exactly the way she spelt them. I wrote what she actually meant in yellow.


My Princess Favorites

• Room in the castle : balkanee (balcony)


• Jewel on my crown : heart


• Place to ride my unicorn : on the rode (on the road)


• Storybook adventure : Areal (Ariel)


• Storybook Prince : Erice (Eric)


• Special outfit : White with flowars (white with flowers)


• Perfume : Pinke


• Nail color : red sparkal (red sparkle)


• Art project : vand (Wand)


• Hobby: swimming


• Sport : basket ball


• Yummy dessert : browny


• Tasty candy bar : chaclet (chocolate)


• How I help others : by klening up (by cleaning up)


• My wish for the future : I had jools (I had jewels)


• A place I'd love to live : star wars galesee (star wars galaxy)


• How I want to change the world: helping


• Song : little red hen


• Color : pink


• Instrument : harmaneca


• Number : 200


• Book : star wars


• Flavor : chocalate

My Princess Friends

• Monoo (Monu) )


• Sapna


• Else (Elsie)


• Vindea (Vindhya)


• Ashvenee (Ashwini)


• Miss Kim (her teacher from pre K)

Our favorite things to do

• play


• have fun


• wath moves (watch movies)


• do swimming


• dance

• wath TV (watch TV)

Our favorite places to go

• to the park


• otside (outside)


• to my room

Gift Wrapping

Just a glimpse at Hrishika's gift wrapping skills. She loves to give gifts and wrap them herself. I do not seem to recall what she had wrapped inside this. I wish I did .....

Dog

Hrishika drew this for a cover contest for a kids magazine. The topic was "your favourite animal". She drew a dog. You always see a butterfly in all of her drawings. That's her artistic signature.

Coconut Tree

This was what Hrishika submitted to the Humpty Dumpty cover contest for the year 2006. The topic for the contest was "your favourite tree". So Hrishika decided to draw a coconut tree. She saw a lot of coconut trees at her grandparents' home when she visited India.

Wood Carving!

During our recent trip to India, we had been to Kaveri Emporium in Mysore to look at some handicrafts. While we were shopping around, one of the craftsmen asked for my daughter's name. We did not know why he had asked, since they wanted to know the right spelling. We forgot all about it and were busy buying stuff.

In a little while the craftsman came back and surprised us with this .....

Hrishika's named carved out in wood with all those beautiful and intricate decorations. And he did all this in less than 20 minutes. Wow! We were totally amazed. Indian craftsmen are really talented bunch!!!