Pen stand in coconut shell

PEN STAND IN COCONUT SHELL

Female side of a coconut shell should be taken as the base. Puncture the three eyes in such a way pens can go.  Clean the surface with emery paper for a smooth finish. Cut another shell  and prepare like wings of a bird.  Neck and peak too are cut in suitable sizes.  Then joint them suitably with quick fix.
After drying,  apply two coats of polish.
Pen stand is ready.  Two views of the pen stand is posted.
How is it?
Narayana das. 

Coconut shell craft - Lotus and cross

COCONUT CRAFT: LOTUS and HOLY CROSS

Covid 19 lock down had given time for many creative things.  Latest being two coconut shell crafts.  One is Lotus and the other is Holy CROSS. 

Though earlier lotus was made in coconut shell,  this piece is a little complicated and improved  version. This one had multi petels and a Lord Ganapathy is positioned above the lotus. 

The second one is a Holy Cross imagined  as carried by an heavenly angel. 

Both are given herewith.  Hope you will like these. 

OLD COINS CHAKRA

OLD COINS CHAKRA

Thanks to lockdown due to corona 19.  It gives enough time to think and act on creations.
As per my earlier plan in utilising the lock down days, I had cleaned and rearranged the beauros.  During that time I got some old coins which I had collected during my school and college days. These were from the "Travancore" era to the present era.   From "one fanam"  to the present "ten rupees". All these are cleaned well. For the new generation,these are treasure of knowledge.
These were segragated on the chronological order and increasing value basis.(minor changes too done).
Spiral (chakra) design was chosen from many designs.  One fanam -year 1116,probably Malayalam year, is positioned in the center. The whole chakra was put inside a frame. This chakra contains "kasu"," chakram","ana","paise", "rupa","rupee"-all are values at those periods. One rupee, two rupee, five rupee coins size and  metal combination are changing over the years.
Have a look .

ELEPHANT CAPRISAN (NETTIPATTAM) WITH PISTA SHELLS

Elephant caprison (nettipattom) with pista shells.
Because of 21 days lock down, time is aplenty. All my family members are put in to home cleaning work like windows cleaning, doors cleaning, almarahs cleaning etc etc. During this process I came across one cover with pista shells. In utilising those pista shells, a elephant caprison formed.
Pista shells are pasted on a paper in the form of a caprisan. Some black  nuts are used in between to have some contrast. Ears are edged with these black nuts. Fevicol is used for pasting. To project the whole, elephant's front view is drawn and painted with water colour. After drying, this is placed inside a photo frame and hanged on the wall. It looks pretty.
Thanks to locked down!!

 

T.Narayana Das

Mob:8891442959

MOBILE CHARGER AND USED TORCH LED BULB TO LIGHT SHOW CASE

Mobile charger and used torch LED bulbs for illuminating show case:
Mobile charger was used to illuminate my show case by using used but damaged torch LED bulbs.
Mobile charger out put is 5 volts and normally a two battery torch consumes around 3 volts.  I had connected these two to illuminate my show case. The work is so simple.
Waste is not a waste!
I had three torch lights (chargable batteries), which were damaged beyond repair. The LED BULBS along with the head cover were removed from the torches .
The pinside (mobile side) was removed from the charger. Now two wires were there. These are connected to a pair of lengthy wires. In this wire , in three places, the torch light LED bulbs were connected parallely. (polarity -positive and negative terminals should be connected accordingly). Insulate the joints properly.
Now place the bulbs in the proper places and connect the charger to the mains. There goes the illumination of the LED bulbs.

Try it yourself and enjoy the output. Too simple and too easy. Thrown out waste becomes useful things.

T.Narayana Das
Mob:8891442959

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Temple gopuram from wood pieces

TEMPLE GOPURAM FROM "WASTE" WOOD PIECES.

Carpender has thrown out some wood pieces as waste. I tried my creative skills with some of these wood pieces. The final product becomes a gopuram.
Wood pieces were selected and cut in to suitable pieces. These were pasted on a wooden platform (a bigger wood waste piece.) These pieces are pasted one over the other suitably with fevicol. The top one is carved out to look like kalasams. At the bottom, some pieces were pasted as pillars ( or pen holders). The whole piece is grinded with fine mesh and polished.
This gopuram can be wall mounted or placed on a table as pen holders.
You too can do this, if you believe that waste is not a waste.
The images of "waste",and the final craft are given below.

You too can try.

T.Narayana Das

Mob:8891442959