with Cocktails?!

These linen squares with a little crochet detail will be good to accompany with cocktails?

Recently made these set of cocktail napkins and now waiting for an occasion to use them! On the soon approaching birthday may be?! 

Happy Holi

Aaj hai Holi! If Gabbar still does not know, let's tell him ki "Haan! Aaj hai Holi!" :)
Made Rice kheer today and sprinkled it with colorful sugar balls!

Changing names!

I have always contemplated on changing my surname/last name after marriage. It's difficult to let go a name you have used for almost 25 years of your life and suddenly adopt to a new one. I envy girls who get married to guys with the same surname as theirs. I know a few of them! At least they do not have to go through a conflict with their own self and the dilemma of changing names!

Yes, Shakespeare says, "What is in the name?" but what is the problem with the name I already have! It's not just about changing name, it is like changing your identity. Moreover its about changing all your official documents...I mean, really? Who's going to do that?

Today while going through tweets on Woman's Day, I found this happy news here, that says Maharashtra government will not insist a woman to use her father's or husband's surname. I'm really looking forward to the day when this will be applicable in reality!  After two years of marriage I have came across several people who question me on still using my father's surname. Now I have an official answer (Though I have always had individualist answers to this question, but you know how it is!)

This news indeed makes a "Very Happy" Woman's Day!

Water COLOUR or COLOR?

In school I learnt the spelling as COLOUR. I do not know when it became COLOR. Aarghh...now it is so confusing! MS word does not accept COLOR and emails show a red line with COLOUR. Internet reads COLOR while books have COLOR and COLOUR both. 

I just like it, be it COLOR or COLOUR. 

Here is some water color/colour from this week's work.

 

 

Butterfly Paper Clips

Do you like pattern-full and colorful stationery? I love it! Like I have these colorful rubber bands and patterned binder clips. Found a box full of tatted butterfly paperclips yesterday. I made these about three years back and had forgotten completely. But now they are up on the blog :)

You like?

Another wedding card...

I love designing wedding cards and last month I had a chance to design a wedding card for one of my friend. Made a pattern of stylized lily motif all over and colored it with auspicious hues of turmeric- the Indian Holy Powder. 

Wishing 

Harshal and Liana

a lifetime of love and togetherness. 

Homecoming

After a long, fruitful and tiring work schedule, I was just waiting to get back home. And here I am... not just in Mumbai but at HOME :)

Ready to post

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, 

   Whispering 'it will be happier'...”  by Alfred Tennyson

Do you believe in 'end of the world'? Ah! Me?? O! May be yes, but not today! :)

My New Year cards are ready to post. Are they rocking enough? Do let me know!

Identity Design

Two of recently developed logos. One is for Arnichem Industries- an Oxygen cylinder manufacturing plant and another is for my husband- an artist who evolves himself from the three basic forms; triangle. circle and square. 

One more @ Neiman Marcus

They call it the 'Imperial Peacock', one more of my beaded runner design at Neiman Marcus :)

Others are here and here.