Day 29 - Happiness is...

Happiness is... Garlic bread with cheese... I absolutely love them... Compliment them with a white sauce pasta or eat them just like that - they taste heavenly and the smell - wow!!



I have dragged through and today is day 29, I am happy I could write for all these days.. 2 days pending to this self challenge of finding happiness for a whole month. Although I did post some pictures and cheat posts, I am glad I did not take a break in between. I went through a bad writer's block and haven't come out yet... I still cannot write any pretty good posts but I guess eventually I will..

Kiddo is doing better now, the wounds are looking better. We had a physician and ophthalmologist visit to make sure that the wounds were getting better. We still need to see a physiotherapist. It is painful and exhausting for him and I feel really sad to see him like this, but I guess some things are beyond our control. The bff also met with an accident and is not doing well. Kiddo ranted that the accident wasn't his mistake and I know it wasn't, but then again there are many more factors. You might be a really good rider, speed controlled and following traffic rules, but the same cannot be said about the other riders. The road conditions are unpredictable too. I request you all to remember that life is very precious. Wounds hurt. It is better to be safe. Please promise yourself not to drink and drive - call a cab or ask someone who hasn't had a drink to drop you home. Please use seat belts and helmets. Please be safe.

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Day 28 - Happiness is...

Happiness is... chocolate, cake and compliments!!

On Christmas Eve, I baked a chocolate cake - it was demonic - cocoa powder, chocolate syrup, chocolate chips, chocolate essence.. I even tried my hand at making a mirror glaze chocolate syrup to dress the cake with. Though I blew up the proportions (I now have a big bowl of that lying in my fridge) it came out well. Initially, I could smell the gelatin in it and didn't want to it, but after it was complete, there was no awful smell. The kiddo met with an accident and I was in no mood to feast on the cake, and so I just took a bite, halfheartedly... coz I just felt too bad.

It was only yesterday when the hubby told me that it was very delicious. He said that the cake was yummy and the mirror glaze, thought not very glazy was very tasty... The hubby is not the kinds to give compliments, for him, it is simple - If-I-am-eating-it-it-is-good!! So this coming from him on a phone call made me happy :) and left me smiling to myself like an idiot!

Leaving you with pics of the cake...




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Day 27 - Happiness is...

Happiness is... making some more clay charms...
I am absolutely loving it and learning it along...

Cute mushy-room charms!!

Baa baa blue and pink sheep!!

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Day 26 - Happiness is

Happiness is... completing day 6 of the 10 day lettering challenge.
The sentence for yesterday was - Express More..




I am thankful for your prayers. Kiddo is doing better now. He still needs time for recovery.
So, continue keeping us in your prayers.

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Day 25 - Happiness is

Happiness is... completing day 5 of the 10 day lettering challenge.
The word for yesterday was - Slay..



I am very sad today. The Kiddo met with an accident last night, and did not tell us. Today morning, mom called to tell us about the accident and we rushed home. He is hurt and in almost all body parts - I just cannot digest it. We have been telling him to drive the car, but I do not know why he is so fascinated with his bike. I do not want to write the details, as I do not ever want to re-read this.. Thank God, it is safe. Please pray for us! Merry Christmas!

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Day 24 - Happiness is

Happiness is... completing day 4 of the 10 day lettering challenge.
The word for yesterday was - Kindness..
Medium - Watercolors on card stock!

Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Makes the mighty ocean
And the heaven above!!



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Day 23 - Happiness is

Happiness is... completing day 3 of the 10 day lettering challenge.
The sentence for yesterday was - Rise above all the hate!
Medium - Gel pen and watercolors on card stock!

Let us spread positivity!!


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Day 22 - Happiness is

Happiness is... completing day 2 of the 10 day lettering challenge.
Word for yesterday was - NOW
Medium - Sharpie and watercolors on card stock!

Do not stop,
Do not fear,
Stand up tall &
Pull your gear..
Coz' the time is now , my dear!!





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Day 21 - Happiness is

Happiness is... flowers, petals, watercolors and hope!!

Participated in a 10 day lettering competition on Instagram!

Yesterday's word was HOPE!!

Reached home really late, followed by a cooking spree of soup and sweet corn salad and then dinner and then hot chocolate - as the hubby is down with cold (Yes!! man cold! true blue :D)

Then kept my hope high and started this at midnight and completed just minutes before the clock struck 12! Wohoo!! at least I participated in time. Hope I can do the rest of them! 

It is a giveaway guys.. and who doesn't like gifts..

Comment if you want to enter.. or just join us on Instagram @thecreativepaw

I was lettering and that too with a paint brush for the first time and am happy with how it turned out :)

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Day 20 - Happiness is

Happiness is... some more claying!!

I clayed food items - burgers and ice-cream to go with it!

Clay charms - burger and ice-cream!!

How do you like them? Should I make some fries and cold-drink to go with these?

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Day 19 - Happiness is

Happiness is...  knowing you have clayed enough to put on your blog when you have nothing else to write about and you are already running late on the tag you took for yourself!!

So, without any delay, presenting my cute little clay charms -

This cute little octopus couple, these were the first two charms I created :)

My first ever clay charms!!

And then this cute triplet followed -

And some more kawaii octopus!!

I loved how the accesories turned out - the bows, the hats and the head phone (yes, the one in green is wearing a headphone)
How do you like them? Would you want to carry one as a key chain or a fridge magnet or as a bag charm?

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Day 18 - Happiness is

Happiness is... reading!!
Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I had read Bridget Jones diary as a teenager and so this was the only motivation to get this book. Initially I was bored and did not reading the mixed diary entries, but then the novel started picking up pace. Bridget and her kids without the handsome Mark Darcy, Helen wove the story around their lives - the pressure of being a perfect mom, the desire to have a partner to share her time and life, the importance of having friends, physical needs, work-life balance - which everybody wants in their lives. The entry of Roxter and the realization that it cannot be forever and then the perfectionist - Scott! I am all in for happy endings!!
Also I liked the owl part! Such small things make the read good for me. Read the book to know what I am talking about.
An average and light read!

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Day 17 - Happiness is

Happiness is... awesome videos!!

I am still in awe seeing the videos posted online. Cooking, drawing , painting, crafting - ask for it and you get it online. You get the basics, you get the beginners, you get the in-depth ones, the step-by-step ones.. Some of them are so beautiful, that I am happy I saw them. Do you like seeing videos too?

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Day 16 - Happiness is

Happiness is... chocolates to save you from dementors!!

If you read my last post, you'd know that I had terrible UTI affected Thursday night. Friday turned out equally bad and I was in bed almost the whole day feeling tormented by spasms and pain. Must have been around 11am on Friday when the room suddenly became really cold. The blankie wasn't enough and I pulled over the hubby's comforter... And suddenly all I could think of was dementors in my room. If I could, I would summon my patronus, but nada! it wasn't to happen, so I ran to the kitchen and got some chocolate. Muggle or wizard, chocolate does make everything better!!
As I write this post, I am smiling (People might think I am mad! but then am I not :D) and thinking about how chocolates saved me from the kiss of death!!

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Day 15 - Happiness is

Happiness is... people who care and medicines which work!!

Wednesday and Thursday I faced severe spasm in my tummy. Thinking the pain would subside and plastering a fake smile I carried on with work and the daily chores, to be jostled into reality on Thursday night. I had severe tummy ache and starting symptoms of a severe UTI. Now, if you have been affected by UTI, you'd know how bad it can be and if you never been affected, be happy and pray you never ever get it. We had been to McDonald's on the weekend to get some ice-cream fill and I had used the ewww disgusting washroom as the urge was unbearable. Guess that must have triggered the UTI.. so Thursday night was spent in the loo :( As soon as I'd come and wrap myself in the blankie the urge to pee would make me run to the loo again.. I dropped  a message(post 1am) to the sister who is a gynecologist and woke up the hubby(only to get his shoulder to cry on and tell him I was dying) He had a presentation on Friday (and an important one!!) but stayed awake with me for sometime. The sister (Thank God for sisters!) called me  around 2ish and suggested medicines. Given our prior experience , we knew the medicals would be closed by that time and I didn't want the hubby to go any further (lest I die in the washroom with him not around) So, he checked the medicine box and found one of the medicines already there... So finally after calls with the sister, a dose of the medicine and some more tlc, I rested my tired self around 7am in the morning and then almost slept the whole Friday.

I really need to be more careful about using common washrooms and stock up cranberry juice and the general medicines, but am really thankful that the sister and the hubby were around...

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Day 14 - Happiness is

Happiness is... Fandom!!

I love Harry Potter and totally, entirely love the fan-art and fandom that comes along - the books, the movies (yes, yes not as good as the books) , the memes, the drawing, the trivia, the clothing, the accessories!!

One of the major reasons I started creating clay charms was so that I could make harry potter miniatures..
And I did try one, but it tells me I need more practice... (It's leviOsa, not levioSA!!)

Do you follow any fandom? Are you a Harry Potter lover?
All hail Harry Potter!!

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Day 13 - Happiness is

Happiness is...  being mad together!!

We have supper really late, around 10pm, which is early by Punjabi standards but late given I want to take up a healthy lifestyle. So, we have been taking this EFFORT to stay healthy and dine at least 2 hours before going to bed...  But what do you do when, you cook a healthy meal with spinach, cottage cheese and fenugreek leaves, eat it at 8pm and the boy is hungry again at 10pm? You have a small portion of vanilla ice-cream (yeah!! what healthy!) with chocolate chips... and then the boy is hungry again and craving for pizza!! He disturbed the artist in me (who was lost in the world of water colors) to ask which pizza to order!! It was post 11 and we knew it would be difficult, besides I wasn't hungry for a cheese burst pizza... but we ended up baking a pizza... from scratch, yes count the pizza base too! So, the dough was folded, the veggies cut, the cheese grated and 5 mini pizzas made - which were supposed to take 15 minutes at 180 degrees but ended up taking 25 minutes!!
Talk about madness!! The pizza base turned out to be soft in between but had a perfect top and bottom crust... I have no photos clicked coz it vanished in no time!!

Pizza Love!!

Talk about being mad together!!

Leaving you with the watercolor magic I tried for the first time!!
Christmas Cards!!

Snowman - watercolor on card stock!

Ornament and Christmas Doodles!! - Watercolor on card stock!

Insides of the card - Water color on card stock!

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Day 12 - Happiness is

Happiness is... a mystery... I like seeing ancient monuments.. Read history, try to know the occupants and then imagine the life they lived... Most of the times, they carry mysteries...

Chandbibi ka mahal, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

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Day 11 - Happiness is

Happiness is... drawing on the office white board :D











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Day 10 - Happiness is

Happiness is... A yummy tempting chocolaty thick shake with little heart biscuits!! A happy tummy = a happy me!!

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Day 9 - Happiness is

Happiness is... Random watercolor drawings!!

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Day 8 - Happiness is

Happiness is... a friday evening, some yummy chocolate shake with cream, friends and a game of Jenga!! Thank God it's Friday!! Friyay..

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Day 7 - Happiness is

Happiness is... your morning routine making you feel like a dessert!!
A strawberry shower gel, a cocoa body lotion, a peach milk moisturizer, a vanilla body mist and a honey lip balm -- Feels like heaven or a dessert... heaven actually, isn't dessert synonyms with heaven?

Welcoming winters...

What is your morning routine like?

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Day 6 - Happiness is

Happiness is... Crafting..

Always loved all things elephant - be it cuddly soft toys or drawings or key-chains..
Work in progress for this cute little elephant!!!
Will turn it into a fridge-magnet or maybe a wall hanging, how about a badge!!
Need to decide!!

Clay work in progress!!

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Day 5 - Happiness is

Happiness is...

How do you write a Happiness post when you really aren't happy, when you are feeling low and want to hide in the blankie and never be seen again?
What do you write about when you do the everyday chores just for the sake of and march off to work just because you have to!

But then on days like these, the blog helps doesn't it...
Now, just for the sake of this blog, I am thinking about what made me happy, so that I can write about it..

Happiness is.. my blog - which gives me a platform to express.
Just like a full box, which when tried to stuff more, will explode or overflow, so does the heart when filled with emotions and then tears flow. It is easy to keep my feelings to myself than to pour my heart out when I know I won't be heard and if heard I'll be ignored and if not ignored, I'll be told that I am bothering about things I can ignore...

Happiness is... the smell of hot coffee and that yummy chocolate cookie to go along with it..
Happiness is... the smell of rain..
Happiness is... trying a new craft and not failing miserably in it..

Decoupage for the first time!!

Happiness is... hearing a good song..
Happiness is... learning new words..
Happiness is... liking the sound of a word!!

Zephyr - a soft breeze.. I like the sound of it!!

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Day 4 - Happiness is

Happiness is French Fries and citrus drinks!!



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Day 3 - Happiness is

Happiness is mushrooms.... not 1, not 2 but a bowl full of mushrooms...
Watercolor love!!

Mushroom Love. Watercolor on paper!!

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Day 2 - Happiness is

Happiness is drawings of love...

Wall e and Eva!

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Day 1 - Happiness is

Starting December 1, I will write 31 "Happiness is..." posts!!
I might write another post to crib... Feel free to take up the tag blogger friends!!

So, for today's post -

Happiness is a bowl of steaming hot cheesy pasta!!!

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