…. and your knees are a mess. All you do is sit in a corner, grab your kids’ paints and get busy (always good to be local guardian to young cousins you can bully into painting with you and washing your brushes).
It’s not the best I can do but the brain and the fingers are rusty. Give it another couple of months and I can be that famous artist in a wheelchair!
Oh they are lovely..u are an artist!
OMG! Do you see it MM? An alternate and much better career is beckoning you…and it’s easy on your knees too
PS Besides painting your thriving plants’ pots, do you also sing to them?! Why are mine so unhappy-looking?
LOL I don’t talk or sing to mine, but i do spend a lot of time staring at them in pleasure. alternate career, huh? well it will pay about 1/100th the amount i earn now but atleast i’ll have my knees
help folks make their gardens too! you have NO idea how many people there are like me who have NO clue but wont mind a l’il bit greenery that they cant kill easily!:(
like mysunnybalcony.com guys!
i know. i’ve been wanting to do what they are doing, for more than a couple of years now
oooo nice. I made photo frames last weekend:D
When are you showing us pics of your new place in good, interesting, happening Ggn?
wondering… i’m not happy with the way it looks yet. only when i am done will i consider it.
bah! High standards
We’l ooh and aah even if you post pics of these pots on top of cartons! That will be better home decor than what dunces like me can put together!!!
yeah right
no high standards yaar. just not got around to doing half of what i had planned. want to get it done at least.
Very pretty. Loving it.
So pwetty…can i outsource my pot painting to u…i dont have a single artistic bone in me…and the husband is unlikely to cooperate in painting pots…
sure you can. let me first get into my wheelchair and settle in with my paints and brushes!
Wow.. so pretty! Please.. this is super awesome.. and no rusty finger work!
Allow me to digress but did you know poor folks like us in Mumbai don’t have any balconies? In the little covered space like a window-ledge available, you can either dry clothes or pot plants.. How does that make you feel about GoodGaon?
pooh. move back then. i have no sympathy for people who leave Delhi and choose to move to Mumbai. yes yes hardhearted i am. but i honestly cant give up my balconies for anything on earth. if i move now, its going to be to a village where i can garden in peace. ooh – digression – yesterday i had a bunch of butterflies in my balcony. can you beat that?!
Yes I can. I had bird shit on my freshly laundered clothes yesterday. Because even they dont have enough space in this crazy city
Main kya karoon? Do you think I’ll ever leave Delhi willingly? I mean my shaadi happened willingly..but what do you do when the husband insists that we can either stay here or further down south? He has a mortal fear of buffaloes.. nothing else explains it!
sigh. men!! i have a plan to set up a commune. i take care of the babies. women who want to work can go earn. those who like to cook can do that. and we get rid of men. the whole bunch. thats it.
You have a sound plan there, missy. Except the production of the babies bit which you might have missed.. but that’s okay.
Consider me registered for the baking and cooking dept.
oh – we get the guys in for that. on a freelance basis. that way we dont need to put up with their nonsense.
Ha… now that sounds like a good plan
I will join in the cooking / baking dept too. Is there a reading dept – I would like to register for that too.
ahem. this is a commune full of women. not men. you cant pull a fast one on us and try to register for reading. okay?!
hey… now what makes you think that women shouldn’t read?
Or do you think I am a man? 
oh totally. women must read. you just cant sign up for that as the job description.
Beautiful MM..you have such an artistic hand. May i borrow this idea to make a teacher’s day gift ?? That is if i have the time and the patience
I am sick of sending flowers and cards to teachers…we’ll see….
Also, these are fevicryl paints ???
absolutely. go right ahead. and first i did one with the kids’ poster colours. then when i began to have fun i picked up fevicryl colours because theyre going to be out in the rains
oooh Its lovely, MM. Longing to move cities.. if you promise to give me a job as a ‘paints/brush holder/washer, wheelchair mover’, I tell hubby that i’ve got a job and will move from my city…
What say?
Seriously, this painting stuff is just too good. You must try bigger canvases. Then i can be canvas stand too. See?
LOL! you just wanna make an old lame lady feel better. thank you, it worked.
I was happily staring at the pics and the beautiful pots and coloring until I read the line “that this is not the best that you could have done”
I’m not showing you anything I draw or paint. EVER.
PS : I love the pink with light gold design. Also the first one.
oh come on. we’re friends, arent we? whats a little colouring out of the line between friends?
LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEE the zig-zag pot (the first one)….
“This is not the best you could have done?” Whoa!!
They look so gorgeous! I am going to steal one or two of those designs as soon as I accomplish step 1, i.e., get off my butt and get some of those paint worthy nice pots!
Which paint do you use? Water colours? Doesn’t the paint wash off with time, esp if they are kept on the balcony?
i used fevicryl acrylic. i havent done this in a long time so i dont know if the paint will wash off in time. i imagine it will fade in a while if not wear off completely
The do tend to chip off pots due t the wetness.. next time mix 1/2 fevicol & 1/2 acrylic paint.
These are lovely BTW.
hey – the boss is here. you’d know best. you know i was thinking of you when i was painting and wondering if i was doing the right thing
I am so copy pasting these cute designs on my gamle…well BTW my indiblogger ac is still pending an OK. I’ll be so sad if you miss the mark by my vote…am keeping my fingers crossed…
lovely! the bold-looking first one and the ethnic looking pink one! beautiful!
God I still can’t get over how pretty they look!! What kind of pots are they? And what kind of paint? I love that one in the green with the white leaf vines!! Gosh!
thanks Tara
its only acrylic paint
MM
You’re being modest! The pots look like a good substitute for sunshine on rainy days
This is what you do with rusty fingers!!!!!
My fingers are permanently rusty then!!
It cant be that I am a bad painter, right?
perish the thought. they just need to be flexed a little
Beautiful, specially the rainbow colours.
Have fun
Lovely da!And of course you are not going to be in a wheelchair!
tauba tauba what wheel chair n all….wheelchair mein baithe tumhaare dushman ke dushman. beautiful work yaar…i bet the kids are very impressed
dushman ke dushman to mere dost hue na?
my enemy’s enemy is my friend… blah blah
Shubh shubh bolo na- I’m not liking the state of your knees:(
kuch nahi hota doosi nani. naye knees khareed lenge
I totally loved it MM. My favorite was the pink one with the twirls.
I hope your knees get better soon…
Grunting happily to self that all I want to say about your abilities has been listed above…
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO beauuuutiiiiiiiiiiiifuuuuuuuuuulllllllll MM! I do know the spelling of beautiful..just trying to articulate how beautiful I thought it was! n it looks so simple too !!! The 1st one is what I heart the most!
Honestly….the fact that you’re so modest about it..makes me appreciate it even more. It’s so nice n rare to see people with a talent be/remain grounded.
I know this one other blogger who shows off no end about their talent and will reprimand people who request the blogger to do a work of art for them n ‘coz of all that I fail to see the beauty in that person’s art. It’s such a pleasant surprise to see you share what you use for your art and even be okay with people wanting to copy the same.
Please never change these things about you.
PS: Read the conversation you had with a reader about doing away with men! LOL! Thank You both for providing me with a very well-timed laugh.
I’m going to echo the sentiment above! Nice job!! Your plants look very happy in their new environs!
tried to vote for your post but indiblogger kept asking me to sign in again and again…lost my patience after 8 tries!
Awesome use of ur time
And, I love the last pink festive looking pot the most!
You sure are very creative…
oh wow. Looks like you are finally making this new house your home
Looks good. So, when did you say, you are moving to the US? I have some pots that need painting, some windows that need curtains and in general, lot of things that need a creative touch 
Sweets – i’m one of the 3500 hits a day. But i’m not one of the 150 who blog – so so so sorry about one less vote. But i can canvass with the best of em.
Everyone else – pls vote for our regular updates on the brat and bean. see -she even promised to post during her commutes if she won the phone – what more do you need to go out there and vote for her?
awesome!
LOVE them! The first one is my favorite. Can I copy the designs please? Never tried painting… too lazy. But your pots are driving me to do something.
go right ahead. they are very simple
God! They’re lovely!! You ARE an artist!!
BTW what paints do you use on pots?
aiyyo! too much modesty in this space!!! gah! :p
here i shudder at the thought of piking up an occasional crayon with the child!
vevy vevy nice stuff! Lauuuu it!
cheers!
They’re beautiful!!! I love the pink one!!! Can you come to Bombay and paint mine too?
after the favour you just did me i’ll send you a truckload!
I’m going to copy them too.. hopefully I’ll have a new place soon and then I am going to come to you for more ideas. Expect an email soon.. and you know what? you could do design consultation from home. I know that plenty of folks have told you this earlier.. but its time you consider it and give the knees some rest.
Your home is so… I don’t know.. Home. Cozy, inviting. All that!
you missed chaotic and mad
Love this blog!! And your creativity. Keep the pics coming. I get very inspired.
Do u prime the terracota pots.. How do the colours stay like that?
-Meena
i dont use a primer. i hadnt considered one and i dont know where to get it either! the colours look fresh because mostly these are away from direct rain and sun.