Diwali !!
Hope you all had a lovely Diwali

 
...at the entryway

kitchen counter

i kept the decor simple with tea lights and very few clay diyas

we had loads of fun,hope you all did too.

Partying with Colours Dekor

Fall at home

Brass Love

Hi All,
This beautiful brass tea light holder came all the way from the rainy north west  to the chilly north east to keep me warm this coming winter :)

By the way, does 'nt it look familiar?It was blog'd at mydreamcanvas
and now a part of my home,so so love it

and it just arrived in time for the Ganapathi puja

Hope you all had a wonderful Vinayaka Chavthi.
Anu at http://mydreamcanvas.blogspot.com/ has some beautiful collection at her shop .

A year & counting

Its been a  year  in the Blog land... yaayy!!

On my shelf

joining the 'Shelf stories' at Colours Dekor

A Festive Weekend

Halo people...
I had a lovely weekend with Laxmi Puja on friday

followed by Rakhi on saturday
(so missed my brother, all i could do was post the rakhi with loads of love)

 
 and then K's birthday on sunday.
Time just flew and here is the start of another lovely week.

Linking to The Weekly Story @ Coloursdekor

Weekend that was...
Hello dear people,
Hope your weekend was good, mine was packed with loads of fun...
We had guests come for dinner on friday so cooked chole,
daalcha-a hyderabadi dish & plain pulav with spicy mixed vegetable raita.
Yes they turned out well :)  chole was yummooo...posting the pic

 And then on saturday we went to the Botanic Gardens.We could not cover everything but the Rose & Japanese gardens that we spent most of the time at were just beautiful,would definitely go back.
just a few shots from the gardens.
 pinks

  roses on vines

 reds

Bonsai

Will do a separate post on the Japanese garden,it was just beautiful & the weather made it look even better.

Come Sunday it was a lazy day at home, hubby dear wanted to eat some Indochinese so cooked Hakka noodles & Chilli  chicken :)

....watched a movie then went out shopping, had dinner n wrapped up the weekend with our very own filter kaapi(coffee).

Spent my weekend with some of my favorite people, favorite dishes, favorite places :) :)

Linking to the Weekend wrap up @ Colours dekor

Another new week...yay!!

  All geared up for the monday morning & a beautiful week ahead ** Smiles**

Peace...Love...Compassion

The three words that come to the mind with the very sight of Buddha
Peace

 Love

 Compassion

 Joining 'Buddha Scapes' at Colours Dekor

Have a nice weekend !!!

Blue....Love

I have always liked blue white ceramics,pottery etc...I look for them whenever i go shopping.

Last weekend I was at the Tulip festival & they had some lovely pieces in blue white,got a couple of them from the souvenir shop.

Here are a few of them from my home

A Fruit Bowl from the Tulip festival

Happy Monday!!

Hello all....
Five months into the new year & hope its going good for all, have a great year ahead too.
I had a lovely weekend, hope you all had one too.