When your decorating ideas and dreams are on hold because you don’t have enough money to do what you’d like, there are still many ways to be creative and have beautiful walls too. In fact, there are several super cheap - and sometimes completely free ways to make your walls into interesting, artistic, and decorative show pieces.

1. If you have kids, get them to color, paint or draw for you. Most mom’s have plenty of the kid’s artwork displayed on the front of the fridge, but you can actually do even more with it than that. Try making it into a collage for instance, to hang on the living room or bedroom wall. A super cheap way to

do this is to buy a large piece of white poster board. This runs maybe $2-$3 at any discount store. Then arrange the kid’s artwork on the board in a pleasing manner, and tape or glue each piece in place. Once it’s dried completely, hang it up using some stables or tape.

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Wool fabric is used for all kinds of clothing, couch covers, bedspreads, toilet covers, tablecloths, and more. People who can sew use wool fabric for most of their creations because it is sold by the yard and is available in most craft stores. There are different types of wool fabric that is used for different purposes. Learning to sew is more than just putting pieces of cloth together, it is about knowing which fabrics to use for different projects and which fabrics will work the best. Professional seamstresses have studied with others to learn how to create clothing and other items that are beautiful, functional, and timeless.

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Have you ever been to a beauty shop and smelled the aroma of absolutely gorgeous hand-made soap and thought to yourself, I wish I could do something like this ? Well, the good news is that you can, with the right tools, know-how and imagination.

So why should you make your own soap? Not only is it fun and exciting, but you get to put exactly what you want in it, design it how you like and choose the colors and fragrance as well. Some store-bought soaps can be full of chemicals that can be harmful to the skin, but if you make your own you know exactly what is in it.

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Introduction

India is a diversified country having varied range of cultures and customs. The Indian art and craft have become world famous. There is huge demand of Indian embroidered garments. There is huge variety of embroideries done in India, here are few of them which have got more fame in terms of popularity in international market : -

Zardozi embroidery

Zardozi work is an ancient form of embroidery basically done with gold or silver zari threads. It is also known as metal embroidery. Although now-a-days it is also done with colored metal threads. The word Zardozi is derived by combining two words Zar and Dozi which in Persian language means gold and embroidery respectively. Therefore it is

clear that this art of embroidery was originated in Persia which was bought to India by Moghuls. Initially it was done with real metal threads of gold and silver. It was done on clothes for the rich and royal, wall hangings, bedsheets, etc. In between the application of pearls and precious stones looks stunning on it. Basically it is done on silk, crepe, brocade and velvet fabrics. Zardozi embroidery saw its decline during the reign of Aurangzeb. It was revived after the independence.

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Do you want to give gifts to your friends or family for birthdays, Christmas or some other holiday, but you just don’t know what to get them?

Just take a decorative basket and you can create a gift basket filled with great items that either your friends or family will love.

The items basically you will need to create a gift basket will include:

**A decorative basket;

**Shrink wrap;

**Any color tissue paper;

**Different assortment of shredded paper. You can use your shredded paper if you have a paper shredder;

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