This is a
brand new apartment in Baroda. Everything from the curtains to cutlery is new.
Since S was
posted here a couple of months back, he has opened only the packages of bare
necessities. Most packages of household utilities still remain unopened. There
is a section of the house that we call ‘the gift shop’ because we get to open
items depending on our need or greed.
On the day I
arrived I opened the packaged boxes of cooking vessels, bed linen, bath towels,
the list goes on.
With so much
discarded packaging material lying in the house, A and I decided fill up the
empty house with some upcycled art. In turn, we are filling our days of
vacation planning some exciting projects.
Then last
week, we went shopping and purchased some ethnic garments for which Baroda is
famous. The labels on the clothes had a pretty pattern and we didn’t have the
heart to throw them away.
Last
Saturday we dined at Vishalla which is a rural-themed restaurant in Ahmedabad.
They packed our leftover parathas in two plates of dried leaves and tied them
up with a red-dyed cotton thread.
The next day
we arranged the patterns of the labels in a floral arrangement and lined the
‘petals’ with the red-dyed thread.
Behold! The effect was like patchwork fabric! So
much for so less! Have a look…
