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Playing the Ukelele!

April 27, 2023 / / 0 Comments

We have seen all kinds of hobbies, except the ones using musical instruments!

For U, let’s learn more about playing a Ukelele!

Have you seen the highly popular Hawaii dolls, which are the ‘go-to’ toys for the car dashboard?  The instrument they hold in their hand is the good old Ukelele!

Ukelele is the musical instrument originating from Portugal, but has been popularized by the Hawaiians. It comes under the Lute musical instrument family, which means, instruments with strings with a thin neck and a body, like Guitar, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass,  Sitar, Tanbura, Veena, Banjo and Lute.

Ukelele vs Guitar – Difference in sizes

Ukelele is a smaller version of the guitar and produces softer tones than the former. The guitar strings are made of steel, but the strings of Ukelele are made of nylon thread! Apparently, the ukelele is almost half the size of guitar. So that is an added advantage for people who like carrying light weight instruments.

Playing a ukelele is lot more easier than guitar, since, playing the steel strings take time getting used to, where as nylon strings are easy to handle and require little effort.

So, if you want to get your kids to learn a musical instrument, get them hooked to ukelele first. Some day they may progress to guitar too! Who knows, they may even fall in love with the ukelele and never leave it too!

P.S:

  1. The other hobbies starting with U are Uni cycling, Underwater photography and Umpiring!
  2. You can even start learning to play ukelele by going through the basics from the following book

Get started, friends!

Paper Quilling

April 20, 2023 / / 0 Comments

If you are artistic and nothing but highly creative and colourful art can satisfy your creative juices, then paper quilling is the perfect hobby for you.

Let’s see what Q for Quilling is all about.

Beautiful horse head – pic courtesy – internet

Quilling is the beautiful art of rolling strips of paper, glued together to make art. Quilling can be used to create greeting cards, wall hangings or for making personalized gifts.

Personalized gift – pic courtesy – internet

The tools required for quilling are,

  1. Slotted tool to curl the strips of quilling paper.
  2. Curling coach, which makes curling faster and easy, mostly used for 3 D miniature quilling projects.
  3. Tweezers, used to avoid warping and also during placement of coils as per the design. Easy handling is possible with tweezers.

Quilling Tool Set

How can we forget the most important part of quilling, the quilling paper.

Quilling Paper Strips – available as is

If you are up for it, you can even shred your own paper into strips to use in quilling, using a shredder.

Paper Shredder

With summer around the corner, what is a better pass time than, quilling?  Kids can make simple greeting cards with this technique.

Simple Greeting cards

Lastly, make your own artsy jewellery. You are bound to get compliments!

Rainbow themed earrings -Artsy Jewellery

Go ahead, get quilling!

P.S:

  1. The other hobbies starting with a Q are Quilting and Quizzing!
  2. People who are interested in recycling and think about the planet once in a while, better get into quilting. It is such a useful art.  One mom had DIYed a quilt with all her baby’s clothes and gifted them to her daughter. Such an interesting gift idea. Though I love quilting and never tried it, this hobby post is about quilling, since, even kids can start doing simple quilling.
  3. I received quilling jewellery as gifts from S (sis) and M (distant relative). Don’t wear quilling jewellery during rainy season, if you want them to be safe!

Till the next hobby post, ciao!

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