Vijayadasmi Day

This is such a auspisious day in this festive season. Saraswathi pooja and Vijayadasmi are my favourite festivals and very close to my heart. These two days fill my heart and mind with bursting new positive energy.

My grandfather always insisted us to do all the things you want to excel in this day. Till marriage, my grandfather and my dad made me and my brother to sit with our favourite books all day. They also encourage us to do our favourite art form. They have taught us that to excel in different areas of our interest , start it on vijayadasmi. So I make it a point to start / practise the arts or studies on this day.

This practise has made me gain more interest on my passions.  I read and do things I want to excel in this day.

Thank you thatha and appa for inculcating this beautiful habit in me.

Happy Vijayadasmi. Stick to your passions and strive for excellence in the same.

Wishes =)

 

Tamil New Year Lunch

This is yet another late post. This is to showcase what all I cooked for Tamil New year. The Lunch was yummy and delicious.

I made more than 12 dishes. All traditional Tamil dishes which turned out to be tastiest lunch.

We dumped ourselves with these exotic dishes and celebrated the day.

Post on these recipes soon

The pictures turned out to be great.

Project 365 : Welcoming Tamil New Year

Iniya Tamizh Nal Valzhthukal!

Welcoming this new year with Mango leaves (Maa ilai).

Happy Tamil New Year. Today happened to be my hubby's star bday. I cooked almost 13 food items today. Food posts coming soon..



Activity 100 : Hello Holidays

Christmas is fast approaching. I clicked few Christmas tree. I love christmas tree. As I have already mentioned, I want to decorate a chirstmas tree with beautiful simple ornaments.

Anyways, say hello to Holidays

=)

Activity 100 : Festival of light

Karthigai 2011

Activity100 : Scented Sticks

Scented Sticks are mandatory ones in pooja of our households. Aroma of burning these sticks kindles the devotion in you.

Dragon fancy

Dragons are famous among people who have craze towards Tattoos. right?

On a fine movie night, I and my hubby were watching Hangover II. One of the scenes features a tattoo studio. Only then my hubby revealed his desire to have a dragon design tattooed painted on his chest.  Tattoos are not his thing. And he wanted me to do the same for him. I was thrilled.

The next day, I started collecting dragon designs from the Internet. I chose 2 to 3 in particular. Then I like this one the most. Then I practised the same in my marker board. I snapped the same too.

I bought Mehendi cone when I came home from office. I gave him a sweet suprise when he was back from work. He was smiling and admiring my interest in doing things he love.Finally I drew the dragon design on his chest. He loved my design and he was a happy man.

I always love being with him. We have fun together.These may be petty acts but our bond grows stronger. We enjoy each others' company all day. I treasure these kind of fun and happy moments  in a save chest (my heart) and a copy (sometimes) in this journal.

 

Activity 100 : My Clipboard

This picture stands as an evidence for my genes which gave me good handwriting. =)

I was practising sketching my country's outline when I took this photo. I drew the sketch on our bay . Then It was decorated by flowers, salt and leaves , with colours representing our flag.

Picture of that in the following post.

*winks*

Activity 100 : Kolam

This is an art done with Rice powder mixed with water. We do this on festival day to express something good is going on in the home.

I  love doing this art around our house on festival days. One such art is shown above.

Try this. It is very easy.

Rangola Rangola Rangoli

As our favourite festival is fast approaching , all are gearing up to shop the latest outfits, jewels, footwear, and esp crackers.

Most of them in workplace were not able to  concentrate on their work. Hence our cilents grabbed this time to conduct fun activities for employees for a week.

For today , It was Rangoli competition. One would have seen colours all over splashed , spread over their designs and around. There were 5 teams I guess. I just captured all the rangolis as gesture of participation.

 

I liked this one very much :)

=)

Hope everyone enjoyed this competition. Advance Diwali wishes..

Activity 100 :Big Temple

Beauty of my land.

Thanjavur Bragadeeshwara Temple.

Big Temple

Activity 100 : Our Gollu 2011

Small Gollu

I love Navarathri

Gollu 2011 : Photographic Post

This year, I made a good arrangement for Gollu. I applied for a day off and did all the arrangement myself. After completeing a small but neat Gollu, I felt satisfied and happy. I invited all my close relatives and friends.

Everyone I called came to visit our Gollu. Mr. N gave a good company. My creativity nerve  also contributed a bit to this event this year. I made Lord Ganesha and Lord Shiva out of colourful clay blocks. I was thrilled.

Most important thing which made me happy is my parents made it from Thanjavur to visit my small gollu. I was excited to the core.

Check out the pictures of our Gollu 2011.

Gollu 2011 as a whole

Chettiar doll in his shop

First thing to be kept to start a Gollu : Kumbam
We decorate it as a Goddess and worship as the same

Wooden Indian doll. A must keep doll in Indian Gollu

Goddess Durga

Goddess Lakshmi

Goddess Saraswathi

Mr. N's Childhood dolls

Doll gifted by Mr.N

Lord Shiva made of Clay

Lord Ganesha made of clay

Lord Ganesha made of clay

 Hope you enjoyed my Gollu 2011.

Day Zero .. Navarathiri Special

Navarathiri is a very grand , authentic , colourful festival which signifies the importance of woman in a family /society.

Three Goddess are being worshipped in all the 9 days of Navarathri festival.

Nava means Nine. These nine days are split into 3 parts and each 3 days are dedicated to each Goddess.

We worship

Durga(Parvathi) - Goddess of braveness and boldness ;

Lakshmi - Goddess of wealth

Saraswathi - Goddess of arts , intellect.

During the Day Zero, Construction of steps to arrange dolls (Gollu) and decorations are being done.

Arrangement of dolls are done.

All these nine days, we cook different sundals ( rich in protein).

We invite friends and family to visit our Gollu.

We dress up in traditional wear or ethinic one.

Music fills our house.. Good music..

Exchange of gifts are being done.

Love this festival ....

More on next posts..

PS .. This arrangement is done by my mom in Thanjavur...Awesome isnt it?

Will post my gollu in Chennai

;)

Navarathri - Colourful festival in India

I have come up with an idea of wrtiting about Navarathri for these 10 days. This is all about the festival, speciality of each day, songs, visits to relatives, visitors, dolls,etc.

These blog posts will have only tradition followed in this post.