Pantone COY 2012

Rusty-Orangy year it is, as per Miss Pantone! 

A super energy boost! But, I couldn't find this color in my pantone fan... and then I realized that 17-1463 Tangerine Tango is one of the 75 new colors introduced few months back!! It's time to get updated!!!

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!

Diwali Greetings

Happy Diwali!!

Made this e-card for Diwali this year! 

In past few months, the magnitude of my blogging has reduced enormously :( and I am not liking it! May be it is the post wedding effect of being busy with added responsibilities, which I am sort of liking :) !!

Well well, it was my first Diwali with all new specialties celebrated in Nashik, but I missed my home town Solapur very much! Missed doing the rangoli on a tiny tile, missed my lil niece and nephew, missed the pooja and pan-supari, missed the family gatherings, missed my friends over an ice-cream and missed every bit of the Diwali in Solapur! 

Happy Birthday Abba | Happy Dasara

 My dearest abba (grandpa) turned 80 today!! A very Happy birthday to him!

 

(last years snap with abba, mom dad and brother:)

 and wishes for Dasara! (Saraswati pooja @ home today:)

May the good triumph over the evil!

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 :) 

Miracles

Miracles do not happen overnight. They take a little longer...!

First sketch using my new Wacom Intuos4 tablet :)

Hello Hyderabad

I was in Hyderabad recently for a photoshoot. And after a two day hectic schedule, I directed myself towards Mangartai to get some pearl earrings. Loved these natural shaped ones! 

Colors + Flowers

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!