Clip it, Frame it

An adorable personalized picture gift for an adorable 1 year old.

 

We made a pretty picture collage for the cutest little baby - Anaya. Her aunt wanted to gift her a memorable 1st birthday gift.  So we put in all the sweet-naughty memories of little Anaya over the past one year in a clothes-line fashioned picture frame.

With the theme of a pastel carnival we created various elements and pictures that were associated to the birthday girl: from her love for dance to her use of gibberish words.

When all the elements were put together it did make a pretty collage. And with every passing year when the little one grows up, there's room to replace the old memories with new loving ones.

The Better Letter Box

A pimped up letter box – keep the posts coming in!

Who said the old world charm of handwritten letters and posts no longer exists? If you have a funky little letter box at your door step, we’re sure that people would love to get their letters delivered to your home.

With a tattered old letter box as our starting point – we went about to deliver a totally new funky look to it. It all started with a coat of paint. Then to add some chutzpah, we stuck an eclectic color print on the letter box flap. The drama of the sticker completely lifts the mundane box. Now comes the fun bit – we slinged in two brown belts on either sides to give a buckled up bag effect.

With 3 simple steps we managed to totally quirk up this letter box. With this kind of a letter box - the old world charm of handwritten letters and posts still for sure exists!

Chalk-board Paint Dipped Glasses

Write & rub messages on glasses – a perfect quirky gift!

When your "boring" stemware glasses needs a sexy update, take them for a dip in chalkboard paint! The perfect solution for a wedding gift or for party favors. This personalized wine glass project is chic and ever-so-easy.

Instructions for this DIY:

1. Prep: Put a piece of painter’s tape around the bottom of the stem to create a clean paint line.
2. Dip: Gently dip the bottom of your glass into the chalkboard paint.
3. Dry: Turn glass upside down on top of cardboard surface and let dry.
4. Reveal: Carefully peel off the painter's tape.
5. Personalize: Label each glass with chalk.

 

These glasses will  definitely be the talk of your next party!

It’s a Girl

Baby announcement – sweet little things for a sweet little thing.

All the congratulations to my dear brother and my dear bhabhi, on bringing us a gorgeous little baby girl.

We gave all near & dear ones a box of milk chocolates, for which we designed a cute label highlighting the ‘it’s a girl’ baby announcement. We used CorelDraw to make a blue & red themed label, highlighting the baby’s name, the baby’s date of birth and the baby’s cuteness.

With abundance of joy, we welcome our beautiful niece ‘Batul’ to this beautiful world.

DIY - Creative Gifting

Unleash the creativity in your kids with paint yourself gifting sets.

There is an Artist in Everyone, and especially in the younger ones. So we gave a bunch of kids of age group 6-12 years a creative task of painting their own Chakri (Wooden Slippers)

They were all not only excited when receiving the kit, but they also gave us some super amazing outputs. Thank you kids for such an outstanding response. You all definitely make this world more colourful and vibrant. The paintings are as adorable as each one of you. Keep inspiring us and always remember to keep it quirky!

instruction sheet along with the kit

Vintage Picture Lamppost

Outdoor lamppost personalized to an indoor picture lamp.

Lampposts are synonymous to old world charm & illuminations. Till today these vintage, tall lamps are synonymous with the beauty & elegance of the cities they illuminate.

Bringing outdoors indoors is always fun. And that’s what we did for the lamp we made for a friend of ours. Basically we converted an outdoor lamppost into an indoor bed-side lamp.

To make the lamp even more special and wedding-gift ready, we gave it a double layer of personalization – first, on the two opposite sides we put in picture stickers of the couple and on the other 2 sides we etched the glass with the initials (in hindi) of the bride and groom.

The quirky-indoor lamppost, with its vintage feel and personalized styling brings in all the charm and hopefully elevates all the romance.  

J&G Mood Lamp

Personalized glittering lamp to set the perfect mood.

We love making personalized lamps for 2 reasons – one, it is a perfect customized, long-cherished gift for any couple and second, it sets the right mood!

 

So for our dear friends, Jai & Gayatri, we made what we love making most - a custom-made initials lamp. We wanted to make our lamp all stylish with some bling. So the ‘J’ of the initial we made it in wood and painted a shiny black and the ‘G’ we made it gold with sparkling jewel stickers adorning them.  

 

 We put the LED light down, so as to create a spot-light effect form below for the J&G.

Our glamed-up lamp looks all so stylish… ready for the paparazzi I say!

The Lamp for Happily Ever After…

Personalized wedding gift: a wooden bed-side lamp designed from the wedding logo of the groom & bride (K & B)

The wedding day, is one of the most, if not the most special day in a couples’ life. But along with the endless joy, festivities and love, comes the wrath of the dreadful gifts.

Wedding gifts seriously need some evolution; we definitely need to think beyond the couples’ watch, the crystal vase and the money tokens.

Best way to show your love for your loved ones on their wedding day is to get something that extra special, something that extra personalized, something that is meant only for the bride and groom, which they will cherish forever.

Come-in the personalized lamp, with the initials of the bride & groom. Or if they have ‘an initials wedding logo’, then brilliantly that can be converted into a wonderful bed-side lamp.

 

the wedding logo - our inspiration

 

For one of our dear friends, we did the same. With the reference of the logo off the wedding card, we designed a wooden lamp of the same design. The bride & groom had the initials K & B, and let me say the logo was beautiful in itself: with the K & B merging in such a way, so as to create a rotated heart shape! Quite nice I say.

So the first step was to enlarge the logo and get it cut in a thick 1” wood block. Then we natural polished it (in order to maintain the goodness of woodness of it). Next, we pasted the LED lights all through the internal lines of the logo. So when you light it, the logo would sort of glow from within.

In order to add some spunk to the all wood lamp, we painted the internal edges along with the LED strip a bright orange. And finally the logo was mounted on a gold-painted wooden stand.

And thats how we wrapped it up

The wood polish along with the orange and gold colors, work seamlessly well. And to that, add the glow of the light! We think that our personalized initials lamp exudes warmth & hotness.
And hopefully will bring a long broad smile on Mr. & Mrs. K. & B. (Congratulations guys!)

Santa in a Jar

A miniature Christmas scene packed in a jar!

Merry Christmas on and all. Its that time of the year when every face bears a smile and every heart is full of joy. Everything associated with Christmas is so beautiful and comforting. Though in India, it  is not popularly celebrated but still the vibes in urban India are felt around -  with churches being lit up, patisseries smoked with freshly baked plum cakes and parties going on to the wee hours of the morning.

In most offices, we have secret santa doing the rounds, wherein every employee acts as a secret santa for another employee (secretively of course). So for my secret santa gift, we decided to give santa himself!

The idea was to re-create a miniature Christmas scene in a jar filled with santa, an x-mas tree, gifts, bells, snow, etc. So all we needed was an empty jar and we bought small sized Christmas décor (that floods the markets at this time).

We put some cotton as snow at the base, then placed a mini Christmas tree in the back, flanked it with boxed gifts, with finally a small little santa standing right in front. We sealed the jar and placed a little bell around the lid.

All the joy of Christmas was packed up in this jar to bring about loads of happiness. What better than gifting santa himself, so to ask himself what gifts you desire. Ho ho ho!!!