Do It Yourself: Art for Your Walls

The walls are an important part of the decor of your home, and are one of the places where you can reflect your personality. Not only you can use pictures with art and photos, but also other creative pieces, made ​​with materials, from paper to fabric. If you want to decorate with a modern and eclectic style, you cannot miss the ideas mentioned in this article.

The professional wall art may cost you much, but do not let this put you off. There are numerous creative ideas, which are not only easy to implement but are also cost-effective and fast. This list includes some of the popular projects, try any (or all!) and see what difference you can make in your home!

Painted wooden pieces

This piece of art can certainly catch anyone’s attention the first time he/she sees it, because with all its colors such pieces become the focal point of the entire room. A piece of painted wooden piece can be worth big amounts, but if you already have unused pieces of wood in your home, making this piece will cost you considerably less.

To complete this project, the first thing you do is cut long pieces of wood. Do not worry about the size, because afterwards, you can set them up like a Jigsaw puzzle. The part that takes time is painting each piece. Choose contrasting colors, and do not be afraid to use primary colors. Once all parts are dry, arm them any way you like and paste them with wood glue. Now you just have to choose in which part of your home you want to hang them.

Toilet Paper Art

If you thought that this project is for children, then you are wrong. The result of this craft is romantic, modern and above all, no one would guess you did with rolls of toilet paper! This piece of art is one of the most inexpensive you can ever come across, and all you need is a blank canvas, paper rolls, a little spray paint and glue.

Create flowers for your piece of art by crushing rolls of paper and then cutting them into strips three inches. Weapon the flowers collecting four strips around the edges and uniting them with silicone glue. The design on the canvas can be anything you want, adding the amount of flowers you need. Once they are in place, paste them and paint all the flowers with spray paint. You can choose a color to match the surrounding, like pink for adding a soft touch or white paint to introduce neutral tones.

 

Filter Coffee Flowers

This is another striking project that is easy and fast! As you may have noticed, the flowers are in vogue, and which give a refreshing look to any room. Nevertheless, this piece of modern art is not as feminine as other floral decorations and even the flowers themselves may be confused with another representation, which is important if you want your home look too feminine naturally.

For these flowers, you can use coffee filters, paper doilies or cupcakes liners. You can paste that to the wall so that they are better enforced, but if you prefer to keep them free of glue, you can only use thumbtacks. Choose bright colors for the pins, and if you want, mix different shades, especially if the material you are using for flowers is white. To add more color, you can paint the flowers with the colors of your choice. Be creative and make your own mural with these simple paper flowers!

Author Bio:  A content writer by profession, Rashmi Karan is an ardent follower of the latest home décor trends and shares her views on the varied range of topics on home décor, particularly for the house on rent in Jaipur.

 

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Importance of Communicating Skill for Hotel Managers

Importance of Communicating Skill for Hotel Managers -‘With great power comes great responsibilities’; this is a famous dialogue of a Hollywood movie and it is applicable for all those individuals who hold important position in every sphere of life. Hotel manager is one such person whose day starts and ends with loads of responsibilities. A manager should have many qualities and the most important is the ability to communicate effectively. The whole staff required to follow orders and if they fail to understand the manager, the hotel will be running in a complete mess. Therefore, skillful communication is an art; some have it in-born and some have to be trained. But to be a successful manager, improving interpersonal skill is mandatory.

With staff

Even before the managers interact with the customers and the clients, they need to work with the staff on a regular basis. They need to coordinate with the superiors, peers, and subordinates to serve the guests in the hotel, without any confusion. As a manager, he needs to explain the goals and expectations of the hotel to the staffs and at the same time motivate them to give the best output. An effective manager has to describe the process to complete the task and why it has been conducted because the more he communicates with his staffs, the strong relationship he builds with them, which is vital for running any business.

With marketing department

A manager also needs to communicate with the marketing department. Since it is his responsibility to enhance the reputation, the manager have to come up with plans that can maximize profit. Continuous interaction is important to make the marketing department realize the ultimate goal of the hotel and create a plan that can set up positive image. If necessary, the manager have to organize meetings discussing issues related to promotion. All these required excellent communicating skill, which will unite the staff together at the time of working.

With Customers and clients

Customer and the clients is reason for the existence of the hotel. If the manager fails to impress the guests, the hotel should be ready to face the loss. Customers can have queries, complaints, requirements, which the managers have to listen patiently and reply with a welcoming tone. There are occasions when customers get annoyed with the services; on such a situation the communicating skill can save the image of the hotel. The manager must not abuse the customers, rather he has to control all the emotions and speak with a polite nature. A manager has to understand every customer and interact accordingly.

Balance working environment is possible, only if the manager can communicate with the employees of the hotel and its customers without any complication. Moreover, the role of hotel manager varies and it keeps on evolving. If he cannot solve matters with simple means of communication then things would get further perturbed. For a business, which involves direct interaction with public, quality communication is incredibly important. Therefore, effective communicating skill is one of the principle to be the best hotel manger.

Author Bio:

Madhavi Roy is a freelance writer. She takes interest in writing on hotel management topics and latest development in this industry. In her pass time, she loves to cook that encourages her to carry out research on hotel industry.

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A Unique Eating Place

We had a nice tea time here. I forgot to take pictures of our lunch meals.

There's a tree inside the eating place

My tea!

 This eating place located in my husband's hometown (Bumiayu, Central Java, Indonesia) . A traditional and modest one, but its yummy food makes me always wants to have lunch there; though in busy hours, you have to wait long time enough for your food.

From this place, you can see a rail bridge called Saka Limalas (Fifteen Poles Bridge). That afternoon I saw some trains passing by. I share here one with blue touches.

Blue train

Blue Monday

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Monkeys

Happy weekend to you all! I can say that I’m much better now; I’m so grateful. 

 

Watching something?

This little guy hanging on a branch 

 When eating at a Mc’Donald restaurant that located near the Cibubur Lake (West Java, Indonesia), from its 2nd floor I saw some monkeys below –around the fence. The monkeys live on the edge of the lake and never cross the fence. Unfortunately I had no time to take more interesting pictures of them.

Camera Critters

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