New found obsession: Cheese and Food

I was never obsessed with food the way I am right now..

All the channels I love on TV are on "food", apart from my Art and crafts interest, food is the next Big thing in line.

And I almost look forward to cooking and trying something new!!!

Like the other night I made these Double baked potatoes. If you are vegetarian, just "skip" the non-veg part. Rest follow!!! And follow I say...everyone was like hypnotised by this dish..

Oh yeah...I made it in a large dish, which was mostly FINISHED by three...I say three people.
OMG...I was so delighted to see them eat, I myself couldn't eat it...

Got any good recipes for me...I'd love to try them!!!
:)

You can also visit my Art studio website
http://niharika-art-studio.blogspot.in/

Cheers!

Demi More is following "me" on Pinterest

How cool is that!!!
Guys...just opened my email to find that "Demi More" (yes...the same one") is following me on Pinterest..
Wow!!!
I'm thrilled...

Niharika on Pinterest!!

Click the above to check out my pins..especially the Oil paintings...

My current project - "Indian monuments"
(Pics coming soon....)


Love,
Niharika :)

Getting the story right!!

Its been more than month now, since our First anniversary vacation, and I wasn't even able to put the pictures together. I had already decided that these pics would definitely come on the Wall...
No, not the Facebook or Pinterest wall, but the real wall...our bedroom wall.

So, I picked the best ones out on my laptop (one hell of a task, if you know what I mean!) . And here's what has come out. I'm inspired by my sister to make a scrapbook for that particular vacation, or even the whole First year.As a "Marriage cum love" project.
She has a Life project going on currently, which you can check out the following link Avinash&Nandini

And here's what I made:

 Both of em are collages, though I'm a little skeptical on the idea of getting a collage done and framed. Maybe coz I havn't really seen good ones around.

Well...I'm gonna get these printed and framed for our room today. But any better ideas are also welcome.
Also, I was thinking of adding some letter hangings to frame "First Anniversary" or something like that...how does that sound?!

Why??

Why do Pinterest and Facebook work?? Someone created these two things in "(our lives to give us the most awesome platforms ever.
Someone had the vision, someone got the "hint" that what would work and what wouldn't.
And even though many of us have the hints, not all of us have the courage to use it.

Sometimes, its right before us but we fail to see it, its only a matter of time, and maybe luck, that we stumble upon it and wonder..oh, so that's what I was suppose to to do. It was so simple, yet....yet I wasn't even looking at it all this time!!

With all this yappling, I only mean to convey, that how I myself am searching for that one thing, one stumble, while I may not even realise that with so much search outside that thing may be within.
("Here comes my spiritual line again...")
No..No..its true. Its like something inside tells me to start yoga and meditation again. As if all my answers lie there. And I dont even need to put myself or others through all this.

Its like a struggle everyday. How much easier would it be, if everything was clear. "How", "when", "where"!! And definitely the word "what"!

(A)What should I do
(B) How should it be done
(C) Where and when
(D) Why - doesn't really matter, as long as you know that you want to...thats why!!

Love for the creatives...

It all started with ART...which is growing stronger everyday, but then it gave me the wisdom of trying newer creative things...
As I reflect back, in the past one year, apart from painting, I've cooked and experimented so many new dishes, made crochet flowers and learned different types of chocolate and gifted them too :)

Wow!! This is someone more than me: my husband says, looking at me, "I can do anything!!"
Really...awww.. I'm so lucky to have you darling...

And with that spirit and strength, I am proceeding forward to carry out a challenge for myself. I know "thoda filmi hai" (its a little movie story like) but I wanna put this up for myself..
Let me also, for the sake of making it clear to myself as well, make this clear that I am not a person who is unable to stick to one thing, I am...till that thing challenges me or helps me grow as a person. If whatever I do, doesn't help me I give it up. It seems difficult to put in words, but if that thing, makes me a dreamer, someone who really doesn't care what others would think if I did it and yet something which I know deep down would be good...I don't know...maybe I'm thinking too much..thinking how other would interpret it...
Okay...let's put it this way..I connect with those "things" that give me a reason, a purpose in life. A famous line from the movie "P.S. I love you: My job is to create...." and that is what I will do. That is what I want to do. To create...

But I'm also scared...what if I just end up being a bored housewife with no job or meaning. What if all this is a bad/wrong step, taken in haste. What if...
I feel like crying at such times you know, coz I feel lonely and scared. I feel how tangled I am by so many things, thinking of which we only tend to be more unhappy.
Oh Gosh...right now, there are so many thoughts running in my mind, stopping me from thinking all this. One says "Why don't you keep your life simple", another says "remember your childhood, when playing life roles, like a shop owner or a wife was not such a sad thing, then why now...why not just go ahead and play this role of whatever you do and enjoy your life as well, why take so much burden about it...is it really that bad!!?"

Hmmm...maybe not. Isn't it all about our attitude. See, my point is only that I wanna learn more and grow more, which right now is not happening with my job. So, I wanna switch to all the creative things I do. Make more art, create things...I was like just born, I'm only 2years old in this and wanna excel like anything. Because deep down it really makes me happy.
But then can't I just carry on my work and do this as well...
See..this is how it always goes, in my head. Don't know when I'll be able to resolve this, coz it really affects every other thing. Maybe someday. I'm just waiting when...

First anniversar celebrations

Has it been an year...already!!!!
wow..time does fly by..though I do admit, there have been a lot many things, in this one year, which remind me that life does not run like a straight line...but ehh! who cares..when you look back, you feel it was a just a glitch and you move on.


You learn, you move on, you unlearn and yet you have to move on. You can't stop...you just can't. Its a sin they say.
But a sin worth it, otherwise you'd never know what great things are there...
you can't see it, or even guess its on its way..
Wow..I feel overwhelmed at that thought.
I had never thought I'd be going to Dubai on our first Anniversary, actually we'd thought of Kashmir, which is another amazing yet-to-visit place, then it was Kerala...but then as if fate had meant it to be..it was DUBAI!!

I couldn't have asked for anything more, except a Valentine's and Anniversary gift...which is ofcourse still pending... (am I being selfish to ask)...Anyways, life has a whole new story to tell, you just need the patience to keep moving to hear and see it!!
Gawdd...am I getting philosophical again...me and my dreamy eyes
:)

I know its every girl's dream...to look in those eyes and forget everything...past, present, future...who cares..when all you ever wanted is right there in front of you..

I love you Sameer :))

Fire of Emotions...

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Waterfall of dreams...

All of us dream, and some of us make it come true, but how much we all wish, that there were a magical land, where it would all be true...
I see, I dream, this is a waterfall of dreams...

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