QMI Inspira 2025: A Spectacular Celebration of Qatar Malayali Influencers Unity in Doha

 QMI Inspira 2025: A Spectacular Celebration of Qatar Malayali Influencers Unity in Doha

 

On February 7, 2025, the Qatar Malayali Influencers (QMI), in collaboration with Moon Events, hosted "Inspira 2025" at the Holiday Inn Doha. The event was a resounding success, attracting over a thousand attendees.

The Qatar Malayali Influencers (QMI) is a prominent organization that unites Malayali influencers residing in Qatar. While specific details about its formation history are limited, QMI has established itself as a significant cultural and social entity within the Malayali community in Qatar. The organization's leadership comprises individuals dedicated to promoting Malayali culture and fostering community engagement. The core team includes President Ms. Liji Abdulla, Vice-President Mr. Shaan Riyas, Secretary Mr. Mohammed Ashiq, Joint Secretaries Ms. Hasna Muhammed and Mr. Sarath Babu, Treasurer Ms. Febin Kunhabdulla, Program Convener Mr. Shefi V Rasheed, Event Finance Manager Mr. Shakkir Cheratayil, Executive Member Mr. Ratheesh Sasi, and Program Coordinator Mr. Mohammed Suhail Ali.

QMI actively organizes events and programs that celebrate Malayali heritage and provide a platform for influencers to connect and collaborate. A notable example is "Inspira 2025," held on February 7, 2025, at the Holiday Inn Doha. This event featured performances by renowned mentalist Fazil Basheer and the Qatar-based music band Churika, attracting over a thousand attendees.

Coming back to the event: The highlight of the evening was a captivating performance by renowned mentalist and miracle buster, Fazil Basheer. Having presented mentalism shows across the Gulf since 2014, Basheer prepared a special performance exclusively for the Doha audience.

Adding to the entertainment, the prominent Qatar-based music band, Churika, delivered a musical concert that resonated with the audience.

The success of Inspira 2025 was the result of dedicated efforts by the QMI core team, including President Liji Abdulla, Vice-President Shaan Riyas, Secretary Mohammed Ashiq, Joint Secretaries Hasna Muhammed and Sarath Babu, Treasurer Febin Kunhabdulla, Program Convener Shefi V Rasheed, Event Finance Manager Shakkir Cheratayil, Executive Member Ratheesh Sasi, and Program Coordinator Mohammed Suhail Ali. The event was compered by Akbar Ali, with Taj Biriyani serving as the main sponsor.

Inspira 2025 not only showcased exceptional talent but also highlighted the vibrant cultural scene within the Malayali community in Qatar. The overwhelming response from attendees underscores the community's enthusiasm and support for such enriching events.

Through such initiatives, QMI plays a crucial role in enriching the cultural landscape of the Malayali community in Qatar, fostering unity, and promoting the talents of its members.

As the curtains closed on QMI Inspira 2025, the QMI committee expressed their commitment to continuing their efforts to bring the community together and celebrate their shared heritage. Plans for future events and initiatives were hinted at, leaving attendees eagerly anticipating what’s next.

  

 

Shoe Box Aquarium | Aquarium for School Project | Diy /| 3D CRAFT

 Shoe Box Aquarium | Aquarium for School Project | Diy /| 3D CRAF

It sounds like you're planning a fun and creative craft activity! Here's a summarized step-by-step guide based on the instructions you provided:

1. Select a Box: Choose a hardboard box, like a shoebox, of a suitable size for your aquarium

2. Prepare the Box: Cut and remove one side of the box to create an open top for your aquarium.

3. Blue Paper Background: Cut blue paper to match the size of the interior walls of the box. Paste the blue paper inside the box to resemble the color of water. Let it dry.

4. Create Water Plants: Cut green paper to make water plants according to the instructions in the video.

5. Make Fish Shapes: Draw fish shapes on hardboard, cut them out, and color them as desired.

6. Hang Fish with Thread: Attach transparent thread to the fish shapes to hang them from the top of the aquarium.

7. Add Decorations: Fix the green plants and other aquarium ornaments inside the box. You can also add white sand, seashells, and colorful stones to the floor of the aquarium.

8. Cover the Front: Use transparent polythene sheet to cover the front portion of the box, allowing you to see inside while protecting the fish and decorations.

9. Enjoy Your Aquarium: Your beautiful aquarium is now ready! It can be used as a school project or a creative craft idea.

This project offers a great opportunity for creativity and imagination, and it's sure to be enjoyable for both kids and adults alike!

Shoe Box Aquarium | Aquarium for School Project | Diy /| 3D CRAFT

Art and Craft Workshop for Kids

 ജീവിതത്തിൽ വളരെ സന്തോഷം തോന്നിയ ദിവസം, പഠിച്ച School GMUP School Chettuva ൽ തന്നെ ഒരു Craft workshop ചെയ്യാൻ അവസരം ലഭിച്ചു.

The world of Flowers, Flower Arrangement, and Career Opportunities

 The world of Flowers, Flower Arrangement, and Career Opportunities 

History & Introduction

It is mentioned in various articles and studies that Egyptians were the first to cut and place flowers in a vase to decorate and add color to their surroundings.  Hence Egyptians were known as the first florists by trade and made different flower arrangements for various functions like burials, celebrations, and table decorations.  Also, The Greeks and the Romans used flowers, herbs, and olive branches with their floral design.  Preferred flower of Romans the rose, these beautiful flowers were used for dressing tables during many meals due to their overwhelming fragrance, which was known as the “Hour of Rose.”  As always, the Chinese were also their own flower arranging during as far back as 207 BCE.  Florists in China were having great respect and honor in their villages and society.  It was a part of their culture and religious teaching, traditional medicine, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism place flowers on their altars in honor.  Later, almost during 476AD, it came to European lifestyle including churches and then to America. 

Nowadays, flower arrangement and flower decorations became part of daily life and events in the entire world, and it has grown into a very big industry with millions of turnovers in agricultural cultivation, processing, and associated trading activities. 

Career Opportunities with Flower arrangement and Floral Industry

At present, there are so many different jobs are available in the field of floral design and they’re only limited by your imagination, which includes, Floral Boutique Owner, Floral Delivery Driver, Floral Design, Teacher, Flower Crown Workshop Host, Flower Farmer, Wholesale Representative, Freelance Floral Designer, etc.

The possibilities of working with flowers are endless and only limited by your imagination.  There are needs for wedding and event florists, flower vase suppliers, garland-makers, floral preservation for wedding bouquets, plant shop owners, weekly flowers for restaurants, businesses, and homes, floral yoga studios, wellness workshops that include therapeutic flower arranging and healing with flowers, and more! There are so many careers in the floral industry as mentioned above and we will have quick look at the outline of job profiles:

• Flower Shop / Floral Boutique Owner 
• Flower / Boquet Delivery Driver 
• Designer for various events like Marriage, Birthday Parties, etc.
• A trainer who can teach and train students with florist interest 
• Flower Crown Workshop Host
• Flower Farmer, who can grow flower plants with the help of local Govt. funding etc.

Some useful videos made based on flower arrangements and can be used as a guideline for beginners and other interested parties are available at our Youtube Page <www. youtube.com/craftwonders liji>

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome as the same will be helpful in improving the contents of this page and other Craftwonders social media pages.

Canon Creative Park

 UNLIMITED CRAFTS AND CREATIVITY AT CANON CREATIVE PARK

Being a blog page, discussing with Art & Craft related subjects, we should discuss Canon Creative Park and the unlimited advantages of this website especially for Craft enthusiasts and kids of different ages.  If you love origami papercrafts or are interested in excellent representations of things made from paper, check out Canon's Creative Park website.   Creative Park has hundreds of projects for printing and assembly. Most of the projects are looking complicated, but there are a few simpler methods by Canon to make it simple.  The projects include masks, signs, cards, games, castles, clocks, math activities, puppet theaters, mobiles, puzzles, games, cars, trucks, boats, airplanes, roads, famous buildings and structures, geology and astronomy models, animals, insects, and dinosaurs, etc. 

Recently, Creative Park has marked its presence at the prestigious Dubai Expo 2020 which is currently progressing in the United Arab Emirates. 

Canon, an official printing, and imaging solutions provider of Expo 2020 Dubai is hosting a series of interactive events and programs, which will align with the exhibition’s pillars of opportunity, mobility, and sustainability with corporate priority platforms of the ‘future of the planet’, the ‘future of people in it and the ‘future of what is possible.  As an official provider of Expo 2020 Dubai, Canon is showcasing its printing & imaging expertise at their stall at Expo.  

Canon Creative Park is a web page or internet application with outstanding collections of Templates and activities, which includes complete detailed instructions to make your own 3D or 2D images and craftworks.  These projects are aimed toward both fun and education and you may find it very useful for your kid's school project or for your own craft display as home décor.  By using our inkjet or laser printer, it's always easy to create 3D toys, stunning calendars, scrapbook pages, holiday cards, hanging decorations, reproductions of famous artwork, etc.   

Canon Creative Park is a user-friendly website that is having the very best collection of creative printer resources in the industry, which will be useful for your different occasions.  You should not be an artist or crafter to produce wonderful outcomes by using the Canon Creative Park site.  Canon is always updating the site with fresh content to the Canon Creative Park web page on a regular basis. Whether you’re looking for a card for a special occasion or a Calendar template for your New Year, or just looking for something fun to do on a rainy day, check out Canon’s Creative Park.

Each Category in the website contains multiple project Templates and instructions that you can download for free. It is not necessary to own a Canon printer, but if you do you can access and utilize the special enhanced content that’s found in Canon Creative Park Premium.

Customers who have Canon printer models that support premium content can download and unlock exclusive printing materials via the Quick Menu or My Image Garden application supplied with their printer. To use this service, make sure that genuine Canon ink cartridges are installed for all colors on a supported printer.

Association of Craftwonders with Canon Creative Park at Qatar

Craftwonders was selected to associate with Canon Creative Park as Social Media Partner in Qatar and conducted various programs at different key locations of Qatar.  These programs were including various competitions for kids and partnering with student's festivals etc.  Creative Park competitions and roadshows conducted at Lulu Hypermarket Barwa Village, Safari Mall Abu Hamour, Lulu Hypermarket Al Khor, Friends Cultural Centre, and Students fest at Al Arabi Stadium at Naeeja, etc. and all were attracted lots of kids other craft enthusiasts and ended up as a big successful event.  Winners and all participants have been given special gifts and valuable prizes including Gift Vouchers, Canon Printers etc.  We hope to resume these types of activities soon, once the outdoor activities are normal after Covid restriction and controls.  Photographs of some of the events are sheared here:

Apart from the above, the Craftwonders YouTube channel has made some videos on how to make these 3D objects on various occasions in helping the kids and craft lovers to convert their own creativity.  You may please go through the following videos:

  

It is always recommended to print the projects on matte photo paper.  This would give a nice stiffness to the project, and the colors would show most vividly.  Also, Canon's Scope of Use policy states that "All the materials provided in Creative Park may be freely used so long as they are used by individuals for non-commercial purposes."

It is always easy to visit Canon Creative Park by using the link: https://creativepark.canon/en/You may also provide your feedback on this site and your projects using creative park by commenting below:

  

Online Stores, what is your thoughts!!

 Purchasing Online!! Are you OK with it??

These days Online Shopping become a routine or preferred method of purchasing and it will be interesting to see the factors behind the same.  I have gone through this and noticed that people are interested in buying online, especially electronic items to the following reasons:

In most cases, they are relatively cheaper than buying from the store

Online selling sites now have a policy of returning the goods if the goods are received damaged or not as per the interest of the Customer.

Enough time to review and compare products which helps them to get all the details about the product easily

Buy anything, anywhere at any time.  Some items may not be available nearby to your Supermarkets, which definitely come to you in a few hours’ time if you opt for an online shopping method.

Comment section and online doubt clearing on the site, which is based on the review of customers on the products that helps us to get the review of the product

After all Return Policy and nearby Customer Contact Centers also attract the Customer for buying from Online site.

Finally, if you are lucky, you will get periodical discounts and stock clearance and EMI facility on reasonable terms also an attraction from Buying from the Online store.

If you don’t have a digital currency form like Credit Card / Debit Card, still you have the option of buying from the site using the Cash on Delivery Method.

 

In consideration of Customers varying behavior, there are a lot of Psychological approaches by the Marketing team of Online Shopping sites which also influence the buyers to stick on with Online shopping sites:

 

Customers always rely on Shopping Sites, which have more transparency in their business.  In this case, Customers prefer the Vendors based on their information like Commitment to the Delivery Schedule, Clear and understandable Return Policy, Shipping cost, etc.   If there is a chance of any hidden charges, rather than what they published, then the entire attitude of the Customer may change and they will permanently leave the site.

 

Customers always rely on social back-ups which is basically a psychological phenomenon where people before making any buying decision, like to check out reviews, recommendations from others, and social media.  Realizing this part, online sites are always publishing the reviews and star ratings of their products which are normally considered as genuine insertions from real customers.

What are your thoughts on online stores.. are they worth it; share your thoughts in the comments section !!

WHAT IS SURFACE DESIGN?

SURFACE DESIGN TECHNIC IN TECHNIC FABRIC PAINTING !! 

  

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Surface design differs from stitching, embroidering, and embellishing just like it sounds—something is applied to the surface of the fabric to alter or enhance it. Printing, painting, and stamping are examples of surface design techniques. 

VARIETY OF TECHNIQUES FOR SURFACE DESIGN 

Fabric surface design encompasses a wide variety of techniques for altering the surface of a fabric, whether it is cotton, silk, wool, or a piece of synthetic fabric.   Altered fabric surfaces can be accomplished by any of the following techniques, either individually or in combinations: 

• Stitching, either by machine or hand 

• Painting on fabric 

• Dyeing fabric 

• Printing on fabric 

• Using heat transfer paints or crayons 

• Adding color, pattern, and design with paint sticks 

• Removing the color from already dyed fabrics with a decolourant 

• Layering different types of fabrics, as in a fabric collage 

• Waxing 

• Burning an image into the fabric to create a design or to reveal the layers underneath 

• Rusting fabric 

• Using various transfer mediums and transfer papers to transfer an image to the fabric 

• Digitally printing on fabric 

• Felting onto a surface 

• Embellishing with beads, crystals, buttons, charms, fibers, and other found objects 

This is just a tiny glimpse into the world of fabric surface design and all of its possibilities – a little teaser of things to come as we explore this exciting world. 

PAINTING ON FABRIC 

For today, let’s just explore some of the options that you have if you decide you would like to create a piece of fabric art by painting on fabric.  Painting on fabric is one of the easiest and fastest ways to alter the surface of the fabric.  There are so many ways to apply the paint that you don’t need to be able to draw the proverbial “straight line.”   Chances are you already have some of the paints that can be used on fabric, such as specially manufactured fabric paints, acrylic paints, puff paints, and other dimensional paints, silk paints, and heat transfer paints, to name just a few. 

THE PAINTS COME IN A VARIETY OF FINISHES: 

• Matte 

• Metallic 

• Iridescent 

• Neon 

• Transparent 

• Opaque 

Sometimes the acrylic paints will “change the hand” of the fabric, i.e., make it stiff.  If this is an issue, there are fabric mediums that can be added to the paints to help retain the “hand” of the fabric. 

For right now, you don’t have to go out and buy any special fabrics.  If you have fabrics such as tightly- woven quality cotton, silk, or even synthetic fabric, they will work.  If you are not using fabrics that are specially manufactured without any finishes (i.e., already prepared for dyeing), then it is best to pre-wash and iron the fabric. 

When you are deciding on the color of the paint you are going to use, you need to take into consideration whether you will be painting on fabric that is a solid color, white, black, or maybe even an already printed commercial fabric.  You want to use a color that will show up against the background. 

METHODS FOR APPLYING PAINT TO FABRIC 

The various ways of painting on fabric is another whole discussion.  Some possibilities, just to name a few are: 

• Paint it on with a brush to cover a portion of the surface, or maybe even the entire surface 

• Apply it to rubber or carved wood stamp with a sponge and then stamp the fabric 

• Draw designs with fabric markers 

• Make a monoprint 

• Stencil an image, using either a commercial one or one that you have made 

• Silkscreen the image 

• Apply it with a brayer 

• Apply it with a sponge 

• Apply it with a credit card or other found object to create a design