Bananas

A long weekend makes for a short week! Yay Friday! Did I mention our recent trip to Key West (4th of July long weekend)? Well, we had a fabulous time! The drive from Miami to Key West was just beautiful, powder blue skies, azure waters and mangrove trees running along the highway as we drove along...Sigh! We had a lot of fun walking up and down Duval Street, watching performers juggle axes and swallowing fire, taking the catamaran cruise, snorkeling and on the boat safari. It was really difficult coming back. 

The first thing we did in Key West was buying bananas. Really! Tarun loves them and has to have them every day. It's the only fruit he eats without my prompting.  I, on the other hand am not particularly fond of them.  So here are a bunch of rainbow colored Bananas for my dear husband. 

Bananas, available for purchase here. 

We have no big plans for this weekend other than getting in a little relaxation and trying out a few recipes. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! 

Snowdrops

The other day while looking for tutorials to make paper flowers for a project, I landed on this page with a great tutorial - Crepe Paper Crocuses and Snowdrops. The mouth watering cake decorated with delicate white Snowdrops prompted me to draw a colorful bunch of Snowdrops for myself. These gorgeous flowers symbolize new beginnings and hope mostly because they bloom at the end of winter and announce the approach of spring. 

Does anyone feel the drooping white bulb of Snowdrops look more sad than hopeful?

Snowdrops, available for purchase here.

Tomatoes

Our upstairs neighbor has a gorgeous tomato plant in his balcony, that is currently fruiting. From my studio window (when I crane my neck ever so slightly) I see beautiful, plump, deep red tomatoes. I'm filled with awe and a little bit of longing. You see, I've not had good luck with growing plants, especially the ones that fruit or flower. The only plant that seems to flourish in my care is Golden Pothos (Fun Fact : In India Pothos is known as Money plant) 

Do you grow your own food?

Tomatoes, available for purchase here.

Chocolate Milkshake

Who doen't like chocolate milkshake? Right? It's my favorite kind too! Since our visti to Hershey's Chocolate World a few months back, we have been steadily going through the large bottle of chocolate syrup we brought back. There is something about the smooth, creamy and oh so frothy chocolate milk that screams perfection. Yum!!

Whats your favorite milkshake flavor? 

Chocolate Milk Shake, available for purchase here.

Let's bake

It's funny how our brains work. Monday morning I woke up wanting to draw a stand mixer. I was pretty perplexed, I don't bake nor do I own one. Then why was I thinking about it? Later during the day while I was collecting books to return to the library I realized it was because of the book Emily and Einstein by Linda Francis Lee. In the book Emily bakes compulsively to get over the grief of losing her husband. 

I got the book from the library last week and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I just hadn't realize how much it had seeped in. Do you sometimes see connections between what you make and what you read? Does that fill your heart with wonder? 

Let's bake, available for purchase here.

It's time

Running a business, however small is not easy. For the past week I have been buried under tasks that kept me away from illustrating. Marketing, PR and keeping accounts are the daily realities of business and sometimes it gets pretty overwhelming :)

Saturday morning, with my To-Do list complete,  I woke up dreaming of an old fashioned alarm clock ringing - telling me it's time. Time to do what? Illustrate? Well I ended up drawing the dream and it turned out well enough to share with you guys. What do you think?

Have ideas come to you in dreams? How did you turn them into reality?

It's time, available for purchase here. 

Illustration Rally - Floral Pattern

Illustration rally is running an open submission for patterns in three themes- Floral, Food and Pets. Here is my submission for the first one. You will remember the carnations from this illustration. I know almost nothing about creating patterns and found this tutorial on Design Sponge very helpful for creating this pattern. Any other pattern creating tutorials you would like to recommend?

Pattern Rally Submission