your feet

I love your feet

only because they walked 

upon the earth and upon

the wind and upon the waters, 

until they found me. 

(Excerpt from the poem Your Feet by Pablo Neruda)

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.

 

 

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 :)

Hello Masterji

Oh Masterji!  I want to know where this masterji is located! He seems to be just superb!

I wanted to blog about this ad since the day I saw it for the first time, but today I do it!

Many would agree with me on how difficult is to rack your brains over the tailor to get things right. You tell him to do one thing and he does the other. You try to be as simple as possible but still he will complicate things on his own. You tell him long length kurta, and he will make it short. Story over! Nothing can be done to it now! You tell him to make a round neckline, he will make a pentagonal and moreover he will add his special comment that pentagonal neckline is in fashion. But, who shall explain him that you need no fashion but basics! You ask him to deliver it on a particular day and he would conveniently forget in-spite of reminding him for several times. And you would have noticed, no tailor notes down the minute instructions you are giving. And when asked why is he not doing so, he will proudly say "sab yaad rahega, madam!" DuH!

I hope this vodafone tailor delivers the net + chikan sleeve and the cris-cross back dori with no faults and alterations!
How I wish I would want this tailor!

Pebbly Thoughts

Over the past month, I've been to Crawford Market thrice and every time I've bought  pebbles for planters in my balcony. I have a few kilos of them now :) I want to make these pebbles into rocks... thinking of what and how the rocky-ness can  happen...?!

Stay tuned...

Moths??

Do you also have these uninvited guests on your walls as well? Tell me about them! I get super annoyed by these spirally flying moths and I feel that they will plunge into my ears or just dive in my freshly cooked curry. Aarrghh!! It is ok if they are stranded on the wall but it adds on to the task of sweeping the next morning. So this way or the other they do not stop their annoyance.

Well, the wall at my desk was their target last night. The wall had a scattered confetti look which I liked. But the liking was restricted for few minutes and I quickly took a picture of it.
What do you think? Does it make a different picture?

{happy weekend}

A plan for past one point five years has materialized few weeks ago. Planted a tulsi sapling in my balcony, an added company to my croton, money plant and ganesh vel!

Indeed the tulsi fills the home with its holy-ness

Keep Calm and Blog

Found this here. It reminds me of my blog...oh how much I miss blogging!!!    *sigh* *sigh*

01012012 :)

Wishes for much happiness and awesomeness on the way...

Aarti :)

Hello with Hearts

Hello! Hello!! It was a long period of hibernation over  my blog! But now I'm back all refreshed for the new year...

Today is a special day, it's the day of celebrating one year of our love! Its our First Wedding Anniversary! 
Few days back, I was looking for heart shaped chocolates at Fantasie, but to my utter disappointment, I was told that heart shaped chocolates are made only during Valentine season :( Motifs of love are not like Christmas which have time span every year. Ideally they should be available all round the year... what say?!
Anyways, so I decided to  make various hearts at home... some edible and some decorative :)

So here are some cutlet hearts and quilled hearts which made a fab beginning of the day!

The Khadi Stamp

Im not a stamp collector who keeps track of the new and upcoming stamps in the philatelic bureau, but my friend DJ is one! Few months back she told me about the Mahatma Gandhi stamp which is printed on Khadi, and the very presence of textile in it interested me to posses one! Khadi is a new material for the philatelics and is indeed a wonderful one! This stamp was released in Feb 2011 in Delhi and with kind efforts we bought it from the philatelic bureau in Mumbai in June 2011. Dj has written a post about it here. 

Today, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, I thought of sharing this proud possession on my blog!

All images are from the miniature sheet of the stamp. Several details of the stamp can be google-d!        

 

"The 'Khadi spirit' means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth. It means a complete renuncia of everything that is likely to harm our fellow creatures, and if we but cultivate that spirit amongst the millions of our countrymen, what a land this India of ours would be!" 

- MahatmaGandhi

Young India, 22-9-1927

This and many more rich thoughts of Gandhi on Khadi are in his  book "Khadi, why and how"

This also reminds me that its time to buy some nice khadi from the Khadi Bhandar :) 

Rangrez - The Dyer

I'm not so much a music lover but I like few songs. And here is one of them, a colorful love song, a song with dyes and the dyer! A textile song :)

 

Was listening to this song today morning at 4am and I really wanted the complete lyrics! Googled for it and here it is with its english translation! 

MP Ajab hai...

I love this TV commercial of MP Tourism. Brilliantly made, isn't it?!
MP is one of the states I haven't visited yet; but will soon plan for it!

Khublei Shibun

Khublei Shibun means "Thank you very much" in Khasi language. This is the first khasi word I/we (me and Soumya) learnt and is the most pleasing and helpful too.
To admire the overwhelming greet, cooperation and friendship by the lovely people (now friends) of Meghalaya, we made a few Khublei Shibun cards. Here are a few of them...
Khublei Shibun to Ali bhai- the best cook, Shyl Sema- the stylish friend, Sir Hajong- the helpfullest, Bah Pariat- the IIM A man, Peter Marbaniang- the NIDian, Anushka Sharma- the designer, Sujeena Manpoong- the Guwahati friend, Morcha Pde- the SIM friend, Carlo Marbaniang- the architect friend, Mandy- the engineer friend, Ashok Elwin- the well known, Mr. Ladi- the sculptor, Mr. Febby- the NIFT fac, Dorjee- the NIFT fac, Jonathan Rymbai- the busiest man, Ricky- the cool company, Harmless- the non-harmful, Kong Baliyan- the doer of all things, Sir Deepak Chanda- the precise man, Madam Passah- the only madam, Kentiew- the manager, Kong Nian- the enthusiast 1, Hiebhah- the young energy, Dr. Joan- the lady with details, Fomley- the bike rider, Ruati Darnei- the designer, Oriland- the new friend, Mr. Good Year- the good taxiwala, Diana Jathang- the friend, Kong Nampui- the Saipung lady, Mr. Nampui- the Saipung man, Mr. Mangaya- the guide, Jenny- the best friend 1, Chuani- the best friend 2, Sanga Sir- the enthusiast 2, Rema- the cool school teacher, Chungnumga- the secretary, Sumarsing Sawiam- the traditional expert, Teilang Khyriem- the almost busy man, Mang- the perfect entertainer, Bless- the on phone man, Buh- the Sunday awaiting man, William- the best driver, Riew- the never-been-out-of-Meghalaya man, Riaz Bhai- the first and best taxiwala, Sujeet bhai- the exploiting taxiwala, Rashid bhai- the nice taxiwala, Bah Mahesh- the cool dude, Mr. Diengdoh- the Ribhoi expert, A. Khonglam- the in office man, Mr. Bang- the man in office, Pochester Kharkongar- the bureaucrat, Eson- the smart man, Kong Balbara- a typical character, Balawan- the sweet chap, Kong Rikynti- the friendly lady, Ivoreen- the married mystery, Thup- the silent man, Ilis Kramsa- the enthusiast 3, Yar- the Saitsama madam, Bercy- the cousin, T. K. Darnei- the Saipung help, Mayfereen- the NGO lady, Arun Diengdoh- the brother in law, Mr. Yake- the name mystery taxiwala and the countless taxis between Jowai and Ummolong and many more people.

Kublei Shibun to the unlimited pack of Lays- cream and onion, Maggi cuppa mania- chilli chow yo, the bakeries in Jowai, Amul butter and Kissan mixed fruit jam, Britania good day biscuits, Bisleri water and the dal-chawal and alu fry of 5 Stars dhaba for surviving us in Jowai. Khublei shibun to Cafe Shillong, Centre Point, Bread Cafe and Subway for making a difference in Shillong!

Khublei Shibun to all those who have made this trip fantabulous and unforgettable for us!
We love Meghalaya!

*LOVE*
Aarti :)

KHUBLEI is the word to wish well, KHU meaning bless and BLEI meaning God, from the depth of the heart and soul. (Ref.: Golden Vine of Ri Hynniewtrep- The Khasi Heritage by Sumar Sing Sawian)

Friday Fresh Flowers

Pink pale and yellow! Love these roses that colored my dining today! :)

The Rubber Band

Do you remember Sharuki and his Rubber Band from Movers and Shakers on Sony Entertainment Television about ten years back?!!! I remember!! His Rubber Band was do much fun! Hai na?!! Sharuki and his Rubber Band was the first thing I thought while composing a post for these colorful rubber bands I picked up from Staples. Such cool colors and ultra cool packaging!! It's a rubber band ball, all "Made in China".PS: No connection between Music bands and rubber bands except for the common "band"!! Don't know why the thought of Sharuki and his Rubber Band here??!!! :D

Hello March!

It's March already! And 2011 not being a leap year, has missed our "two months of wedding" anniversary!! But CeLeBrAtIoNs do not need dates :)

Last weekend was a "market roam around" weekend with my friend DJ. Dj is an architect - urban designer and has recently started blogging at City Doodles. She loves cities and we love to explore cities together. I have blogged few of our explorations here and here. City Doodles is an interesting architectural city-centric blog, you should visit, comment and follow!!

Both, me and Dj love to buy pretty stationery of any kind. And this time, we picked up these patterned binder clips from Staples and Landmark. Aren't these pretty?!! Bold Bright and Beautiful! Very Spring-Summer!!

CelebrationS :: Happy Love Day

It is time for celebration in the season of love :)
I heart my blog ::: I heart fabrics
The 200th post makes the LOVE DAY more special!

I have designed a I heart Fabrics wallpaper for you! Click on the image to download.
Hope you have a lovely DAY of LOVE!
XOXOXO

Delhi Calling

Headed to dilwalon ki Dilli for a few days, to catch up with work, friends and much more!

{Happy Monday}

It was indeed a happy Monday morning to see a dark pink flower blooming bright in sunshine on the ganesh vel in our balcony! And many more buds are coming up :)
We had a hard time to grow this small ganesh vel. Yeaa, but now it is all healthy, wealthy & bright!
Further... it is a happy working Monday!