Silver for the Pig

It all started with a promise of a Piggie bank... and then disaster! Broken, shattered, it was now no more than tiny fragments of a friend's love...

I never really had a chance to see it...

Then, out of nowhere, a suggestion and an idea appeared out of nowhere!

A mud pot! That's what I started out with.

This is what I started out with!

A little love and care added, quick drying clay here and there, a little paint to touch up and there it stood!

My very own home made Piggie!  :)  :)

The end product  :)

Mr. Piggie became pretty popular and pretty soon, I was on my way to thanking the friend who inspired me by making him a Piggie bank! This one had its own little laptop ( Sadly, I don't have a picture of it  :(  )

I'm starting on another one! Esther said she'd like a 'Jailbird Piggie'  x D

It sounded like a pretty cute idea so I decided to do it!! I will post the result when its done  :)

Thought I'd post some pictures of Mr. Piggie  :)   Esther clicked them  : D 

Mr. Piggie often dreams of the great outdoors!

Ellen enjoys 'feeding' Mr. Piggie

After a hard day's work, Mr. Piggie loves to cuddle up and sleep  ^.^

Cos Laughter is a Good Thing!

A friend of mine had recently posted it on his Facebook wall, and today, I find myself eagerly waiting for a new one every week!

What am I talking about? COMICSSSSSSSSS!!!!

I have vivid and delicious memories of slipping Archie comics behind School text books and reading them when lectures got... well, a little boring  : P  So Im a bit of a comic addict  (Geeky? GUILTY!!!)

I soon outgrew them and moved on to actually living life but once in a while, I do come across comic strips and my childhood creeps right back  : D

So I decided to share these webcomics in particular! They're from this site www.pajamaforest.com and are ADORABLE!!!  :)  

They are created by Evan Diaz. He comes out with a new one twice a week so YAY!!!! I decided to post a few of my favorites on our blog as well  : )

Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did  : D

P.S. I may have had to slice the comics into little bits cos they didn't really fit into the space on our blog  :(  Really sorry about that!  :(

I happen to be a HUGE WoW fan so I decided to post this one  : D

WoW WIFE 1

 And this one was just so DARN CUTE!!!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR A GOOD TIME

I kinda wanted to put these up too but since I couldn't, I'm just gonna link them!

She Usually Loves Weddings

Diagram of a Woman's Brain

Once again, be sure to visit the site www.pajamaforest.com! There are plently more where these came from  : D

Catch of the week

Ok, we're starting this new thing where we're gonna tell you guys about some of the awesome stuff we come across  :P

I really don't wanna brag but I'm an extreme shopaholic and don't really leave a place empty handed  :D

Esther says its a disgusting habit cos I end up buying stupid things like paper clips and multi- colored pens just for the heck if it when she believes the money should be saved for something more worth it or useful  O_o

Anyway, I'm dedicating a post every week to some of my awesomely useless finds  :D

Hope u guys enjoy it  :)

This week, I'd like to put up something I didn't buy!  :P  

A dear friend got this for me and personally I found it adorable  ^.^

Its basically made of thread with two little glass fish!!  :D  Its from Fabindia and costs somewhere around Rs. 235.

Well, Esther and I took this opportunity to shoot some crazy photographs! Here are some of the 'sensible' one  :D  :P

Okkk... I cant really seem to get this picture right side up so WHATEVER!!!! Esther is gonna HATE me for this!!!  ^.^   She basically had to squeeze into that tiny little space to capture some of the pictures  ^.^  

 

And that's about it  :D 

See you next week for another amazing find!
Toodles!!!

Bye bye 2010!

MySpace-Countdowns

Its that time of the year again... Time to say goodbye to an amazing old year and 'OLA' to a new one!

Hoping each and every one of you had a wonderful 2010, with beautiful memories and wishing you a Blessed and Magical New Year 2011!!! ^.^

May the spirit of the New year fill your homes and hearts with peace and love!

Thanking you for your love and support!

~Elaine and Esther

(OMG!!! This is our LAST official post for the year 2010! :o :D :P See you all in the New Year!)

Dont write off the Local Transport yet

Esther here  ^_^


Every time I tell my friends that I love travelling by local buses, they roll their eyes and think I've lost it! They tell me that if I traveled by buses everyday, I would get the real picture and start hating every second of bus journeys. I beg to differ.

I remember when I first asked my parents if I could travel by bus, I had to assure them A MILLION times that I was travelling with experts who would get me home safely and that in the 15 minute journey I wouldn't get myself killed.

I don’t blame my parents for worrying. We often read bone chilling stories of girls getting molested by 50 year old perverts, people reportedly getting on buses and never reaching home, etc.

Unfortunately for me, every time any of my elder family members board a bus, something weird and funny had to happen to heighten their beliefs.

Anyway, back to the point– would you be surprised if I told you that till date, in my 2 years of bus travel, nothing bad has ever happened to me? *touch wood*
Quite the opposite!

Take the example of yesterday, we were trying to get from St Inez to the Panjim bus stop..it was 2am and since we couldn't find a rickshaw anywhere, we decided to take the bus. When we finally got a bus (after Carlos and I ran like mad people through the traffic to stop it while my siblings calmly took their time in getting to the bus -.-) to our shock, we realised that Elaine hadn’t boarded the bus. So imagine, after initially hearing fellow passengers grumble for making them wait FOR 2 MINUTES, we stopped the bus again . I got off , only to find Elaine happily buying a REINDEER PEN from a stationary shop. We were so grateful that the conductor and driver had actually waited for us, even while a line of cars and buses honked furiously behind them.

Forget waiting for us, another time when I was travelling from the Goa’s commercial capital Margao to my house, I took a local bus. It was about 2:30pm on a Sunday and the bus was PACKED. Fearing that I wouldn't be able to reach the door at my stop and since I was already suffocated by the crowd, I decided to get off the bus a stop away from my house. The weather was beautiful and I love walking so I didn’t mind the 15 minute walk home... To my surprise, the bus went forward for about 3 secs and reversed all of a sudden. The conductor actually opened the door and told me to get in. Most of the people in the bus were commenting on how this wasn’t my stop and since I hardly travel, I must have gotten confused *Yea right*.

Pretty sweet right?

To conclude, I have found that *MOST of the time* if you dress and behave decently, people generally DO NOT interfere with you.    ( ^ , ^ )

Fearless...

I know this is a pretty old song but I love it  :)

It is one of my favorites  :)

P for Petunias

 Im passing through my 'Go Green' phase, where all I want to do is buy flowering plants and watch them grow  :P

And so, when the 'Flower Man' came by today ( Hes just this guy who comes by now and then with a cart full of plants to sell), I ended up with a pot of purple Petunias  :D

Now in case you guys didnt know, Petunias are the most popular annual plants today because of their easy availability and their gorgeously cheery blooms. They come in a variety of colors and types, to name a few, the Hedgiflora 'Wave' Petunias that grow in a carpet like fashion and is the pride of any plant lover's flower bed!

Hedgiflora 'Wave' Petunias

Then there are the Multiflora petunias, that have smaller blooms and hold quite well in the rains.

Multiflora Petunias

The Milliflora Petunias have the smallest flowers!

Milliflora Petunias

And then theres the Grandiflora Petunia with bigger blooms which is pretty much common. They do tend to get destroyed easily by rain  :(

Grandiflora Petunias

Now, a little on Petunias:

1. They're annual plants which means they grow, flower and die in a year or a season.

2. They LOVE the sun  :D  They grow best when fully exposed to the sun or kept partially in the shade.

3. They need good, fertilized and well drained soil.

4. British Horticulturists have recently come out with a BLACK petunia!!! They're calling it 'Black Velvet' and are selling them under the catchline 'Black goes with everything'. They're said to come out next spring!

Black Velvet

 5. Petunias need regular tending to else they'll get 'leggy'. A good way to prevent this is to pinch part of the stems from time to time. This also encourages more blooms ensuring a fuller look to your plant!

6. Another way to help the plant produce more blooms is to DEADHEAD the petunia. This simply means taking off a flower thats dead or injured! Thought I'd show you how  :)

Its a pretty simple thing to do! In this picture, you'll notice that two flowers have withered and died.

So what we're gonna do is just take hold of the dead flower.....

... and give a gentle pull....

.... and separate it from the stalk!

Easy, isnt it?  :D

And just like that, your plant will produce more blooms  :)