It was my niece’s birthday sometime back and Naisha wanted to ‘make’ a gift. After much thought we decided on a thermacol castle since the theme of the party was ‘Princess’. This is what it turned out as…
Here’s what we did…
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| I cut out a basic castle shape using a hot knife..my old trick. I nicked a shoulder of the castle but.. Naisha rationalised very pragmatically.. ‘It’s an old castle mama ..some of it has to be broken.’ And we were sorted 🙂 |

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| Naisha helped paint it pink. I tried to stick on the shoulder with no luck at all. |
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| A little bit of detailing. The red ‘brickwork’ and the silver dabs. |
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| Then we rolled some matching pink handmade paper to make towers |
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| ..this is what it looked like. |
I wanted to add a princess somewhere but couldn’t quite figure out where. Rapunzel was ruled out.. we wanted no sad princess around on the happy day. Yes we are a little superstitious. With the birthday fast approaching we had to be satisfied with just this. What do you say?
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| Then we stuck/tied the bits together and we were done. |
Right Reema I think handmade gifts mean a lot.
Brilliant! Loved it.I am all for thoughtful gifts. I am going to encourage that when my son grows up.
@Uma: Thank you.
@Lifeissongoflove: Oh yes she was.. showed it off to all her friends!
Smita: Thanks.
Arti: Haha.. I can depend on Naisha to make things right.
@momofrs: 😀
@Sugeeth: All moms have a princess.. Naisha's just mine.
Why princess when Rani Naisha is around? 😉
Goodness T…i LOVE your blog for the rich DIY ideas you put up here 🙂
I'm hoarding all these for the days when i'll be needing them 😀
BTW, i think Naish is a VERY witty girl 🙂 …great going for her 🙂
I say, that is an awesome job by the mother-daughter duo! The detailing works and Naisha's wit, it's USP :))
It looks lovely!!!
That's a very pretty castle. I am sure the little princess for whom it is made will be delighted 🙂
what a lovely castle!
Yes Shilpa sometimes they surprise us.
That's a nice pinky pink castle!
Liked the mature and rational thought of the lil one!
Hey thanks Shama.
cute beautiful castle