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Please do come back and visit again.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-12070886758893371102018-06-20T00:00:00.000-07:002018-06-20T00:00:08.844-07:00New blooms this spring - cactus Orchid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have had this plant for 3 years which was green and healthy and no bloom. I told my husband that I have run out of patience and this plant needs to GO.<br />
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Surprise surprise....... Come spring it put on a show like it was no ones business.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-16825610806032718442018-06-15T12:19:00.000-07:002018-06-15T12:19:46.211-07:00Morning sun rays in living room<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Just loved the way living room was looking this this morning with morning light entering through front windows. Windows are east facing and sun rays play a different game depending on the season we are in.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-11428322515938774642017-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:002017-08-01T06:00:32.210-07:00New to my garden this summer.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Life through a curve ball yet again and I had to prioritize. We learn from our experiences and move on and make the best of it. Apart from my blog my garden also suffered every now and then but it was kind to me, though it didn't get periodic fertilizers and care it normally used to get.</div>
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Here are some beauties from my garden.</div>
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I had been missing from blogging for quite sometime now Life took some unexpected twists and turns and that kept me extremely busy.</div>
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Here is my first attempt at making a fairy garden.</div>
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I bought terracotta planters and painted it myself. I have mostly succulents in it . Planters were available at the local habitat for humanity store for $1. </div>
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Let me know what you guys think of it.<br />
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Linking it to:<br />
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<li><a href="http://boogieboardcottage.blogspot.com/2015/04/turkey-vegetable-meatballs-and-linky.html" target="_blank">Masterpiece Monday</a></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-11620363303003566052014-11-16T23:01:00.000-08:002014-11-18T09:35:27.905-08:00DIY - Plain wooden tray modification<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Imagination is all you need. I bought a couple of these plain wooden trays.</div>
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I painted the tray blue using the acrylic paint which was at home. I had picked up a handmade wrapping paper at Cost plus world market. I used that for the tray and glued in acrylic sheet I picked up at the local hardware store.<br />
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Here is a look at the completed tray sitting on my living room coffee table.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-60734630136519784982014-11-09T18:30:00.000-08:002014-11-10T10:25:32.621-08:00Back after a long hiatus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am back after a long break. This one was not planned. I went to India during summer. I thought I will take a couple of weeks break and be back on the blog......<br />
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Summer 2014 was not what me or my family had planned for ourselves. Have you ever heard of a saying "Man proposes and God disposes"...... We as a family still tried to make best out of what we could do.<br />
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Soon after returning from India, first Gowri and Ganesha festival. Gowri and Ganesha is a big festival for those of us who come from Bangalore. Soon after Navaratri snuck up on me and so did Deepavali. Things have been crazy on the work front too. When it rains, it pours right?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Step 2: Make an outline of the design using a light colored sketch pen. Here, I have made a design of a grapevine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Step 4: To give the design an embossed look, completely fill the design with fabric glue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Step 5: Here I have made the veins of the leaves using a toothpick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Step 6: This is what it looks like after the glue has dried.(A closer view of the leaf)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Step 7: Fabric glue is completely dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Step 8 : I have painted the leaves with dark green and the grapes with purple. (solvent based glass colors)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What comes to your mind when you think of childhood? Every one has a few favorite things which they associate with happy times. For me it is monsoon rains, Jasmine flowers, spicy peanuts to name a few. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love Jasmine flowers. I am collecting different types of them. Here are a few of them from my garden.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-67607089089562189082014-07-03T11:50:00.000-07:002014-07-03T11:58:47.773-07:00Summer has begun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It all started with this one. Indian girl sitting with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanpura_(instrument)" target="_blank">TAMBURI</a>. Tamburi helps keeps scale in classical Indian music. This painting was part of my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/213146994839445527/" target="_blank">Navaratri </a>display this past year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the two new additions. She is not a trained painter. I wasn't aware that she liked painting. I had picked up the canvas while they were on sale in a local discount store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the way she has used colors and how her imagination is at play here. She feels that she has done a poor job at it. I am so proud of her work and for a new painter she has done an amazing job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It all started 2 years ago in our local farmers market. Regular orchid vendor in the farmers market was ready to pack up for the day. I was the last customer for the day. I told her I wanted an orchid which wasn't a <span dir="auto"><i>Phalaenopsis</i></span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She gave me an epidendrum and said "You will like this". I didn't know anything about that plant and it didn't bloom for next 18 months, ever since then I have had several blooms and I fell in love with this orchid. Since then I have added 8 other colors to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Once these flowers bloom they stay for 2 months. They make good cut flowers too.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-52414996339264769702014-06-17T17:04:00.001-07:002014-06-17T17:04:33.809-07:00Post card from Novice Decorator<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you all had a wonderful Father's day. We did have a quite and enjoyable father's day at home. Work and other activities have been keeping me so busy that I am unable to post anything. I will be back next week.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-84049647403552695432014-06-04T19:51:00.000-07:002014-06-04T21:29:47.099-07:00Spring has Sprung - Part III<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you are all having a good week. I have been having a pretty hectic week myself. I am hoping it will ease in next couple of days.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-53304611649494300752014-06-02T21:18:00.002-07:002014-06-02T21:34:24.818-07:00Etsy Store find - The Second Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last night I was browsing through the Facebook group page of Second to None. I have had some good luck with this group which gently used items. I will post details a little later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In one such browsing session I landed on a photograph for a block print wrapping paper. It belonged to a store called "<a href="http://tsl.abcd.co.in/" target="_blank">The Second Life</a>". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These wrapping and gift bags are made with used news papers. I am just impressed with this concept. Many of us talk about recycling and reusing and re purposing stuff but only few of us take that bold step to venture and make it into a usable product. Here are some of the products they have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Folks here is their <a href="http://www.etsy.com/in-en/shop/StudioABCD" target="_blank">Etsy</a> store. Please look into this store for Handmade items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope your week got started on a good note. I had a very productive weekend. As the weather was good, I cleaned up both front and the back yard. They were screaming for attention as I had not paid much attention as we had really weird warm weather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I am taking you on a tour of </span><a href="http://www.theflowerfields.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Flower Fields</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of Carlsbad, CA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have been planning to visit this place for a few years now. Our work schedules, Kids school and extra activities schedules never allowed us to visit this place though we have passed by this place several times. This year we finally made it but we should have gone there couple of weeks earlier as you can see in the picture below season was coming to an end and never the less it was still a visual feast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you been wondering what these flowers are? They are </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ranunculus</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> also known as Buttercups. These flowers occupy 50 acres. So you will see colors as far as the eye can see. One part of the fields over looks the ocean. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-85983834975121984292014-05-15T08:29:00.000-07:002014-05-15T10:15:21.175-07:00Spring has sprung - Part II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have been having very harsh weather these days. Temperatures are very high. We have had no winter or spring this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't you love when you go out and see the blooms in your yard. I can see all of these from my kitchen window when I am working in the kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also have night jasmine in the backyard. They have such sweet smell at night. It is nice to sit in the patio and relax after a long days work. Gladiolus hiding between Night jasmine and Curry leaves tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hollyhocks are also blooming. I love this deep color these flowers have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a great weekend. My earlier post about whats been blooming this spring can be seen <a href="http://novicedecorator.blogspot.com/2014/03/sping-has-sprung-part-i.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://novicedecorator.blogspot.com/2014/02/whats-blooming-in-garden-part-3.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://novicedecorator.blogspot.com/2014/01/whats-blooming-in-garden-part-2.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://novicedecorator.blogspot.com/2014/01/whats-blooming-in-garden.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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my engineering school classmates thanks to Facebook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creator of <span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><u>Athena
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Arathi [A]</span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hi Malathy, Thank you for allowing me to feature your work on my
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Malathy
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">A</span><span style="color: #ff9900;">:</span></b><span style="color: #ff9900;"> </span></span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Wow, That’s quite a leap from Medical Genetics to Polymer
clay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did you get started with
polymer clay?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you tell me what
attracted you to this craft?</span><span style="color: #ff9900;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">M:</span></b> </span><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">I got introduced to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_clay" target="_blank">polymer clay</a> while we were in Israel. Painting,
sketching any anything to do with colors has always drawn my attention and
polymer clay is all about colors and it was easy for me to get addicted to this
wonderful medium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">A</span><span style="color: #ff9900;">:</span></b><span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Have you always been
doing polymer clay jewelry or how did it evolve?</span><span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">M:</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">My experience with
polymer clay started as a hobby and it was great fun to make jewelry and give
it away as gifts to friends. I do make non- jewelry items, but jewelry has been
my area of focus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">A:</span></b><span style="color: green;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Okay Malathy, let’s now talk about Jewelry pieces, is there a
theme to your jewelry you make? What inspires you to make this jewelry?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">M:</span></b> </span><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">There is no specific theme, but I always try to create pieces to suit the
occasion. For example, on women's day it is a necklace with a woman's face,
yellow flowers for Vishu festival, and Santa’s face for Christmas and so on.
They are also based on the season (colors of the season).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Most of my jewelry is
inspired by nature. The colors, shapes are all inspired by what I see around
me.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">:</span></b><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> How much do you spend
on an average per piece? Do you work on multiple pieces at once?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">M:</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Each set takes about 3
hours on an average. My work involves two phases. I start with clay work and
then the assembly of baked pieces. Usually the first half of each week is spent
doing clay work, followed by the assembly during the second half. So,
essentially I do work on multiple pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">M:</span></b> </span><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">My day starts with posting a picture on my Facebook page, and then I move
to my work table, where I spend about 3 to 4 hours during the day. About an
hour is spent answering queries, packing and dispatching of the sold jewelry
and procuring supplies. My husband and Son are the ones who give me the feedback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">A:</span></b> </span><span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thank You Malathy, I wish the very best in your endeavor. I hope to meet you soon in Bangalore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you all enjoyed the interview as much as I did. Contact Malathy for any custom Jewelry you may want to get done. Also folks, these make a great return party favors.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can view more designs on Athena Hues Facebook page.</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/2014/05/nifty-thrifty-tuesday-no-212.html" target="_blank">Nifty Thrifty Tuesday</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.astrollthrulife.net/2014/05/216th-inspire-me-tuesday.html" target="_blank">Inspire Me Tuesday</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kathewithane.com/2014/05/youre-gonna-love-it-tuesday.html" target="_blank">Youre gonna love it</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mabeyshemadeit.com/tell-tuesday-23/" target="_blank">Do Tell Tuesday</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ivyandelephants.blogspot.com/2014/05/tackling-door-decor.html" target="_blank">Whats it Wednesday</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got introduced to celebrating Mother's day when I moved to this country. In Hinduism, we believe Mom is the first form of God we see when we come on this earth. She is also the very first teacher a child will have in their life. So, like I have heard several times growing up, Moms need to be celebrated every day of our lives.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-1273446861325521322014-05-05T09:07:00.001-07:002014-05-07T20:35:06.910-07:00Back in action - Spring flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had disappeared for a while. I apologize for that. I hope you all have had a good month. April is a month I struggle through some times as we had our son is April 2001 and he became an angel for us during the same month. Some years are better than other but this year was a hard one but it is getting better each year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Today I am featuring my </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Fuchsia</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> flowers from my garden. I have them in planters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of my oldest Fuchsia plants. I am not sure why these particular plant flowers are small. I still love the flowers. They don't have same number of multiple layers but aren't they still pretty?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am still looking for this color. Hopefully I will find the plant one of these day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Folks, stay tuned as I have an exciting feature with my very first giveaway coming up.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://itssoverycheri.com/2014/05/04/party-time-5-4-2014/" target="_blank">Party Time</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://boogieboardcottage.blogspot.com/2014/05/welcome-to-174th-masterpiece-monday-and.html" target="_blank">Masterpiece Monday</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://betweennapsontheporch.net/jazzing-up-a-porch-for-springtime-enjoyment/" target="_blank">Metamorphosis Monday</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/2014/05/nifty-thrifty-tuesday-no211.html" target="_blank">Nifty Thrifty Tuesday</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.astrollthrulife.net/2014/05/215th-inspire-me-tuesday.html#more" target="_blank">Inspire me Tuesday</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kathewithane.com/2014/05/youre-gonna-love-it-tuesdayanything-goes.html" target="_blank">You're gonna love it</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ivyandelephants.blogspot.com/2014/05/birds-of-feather.html" target="_blank">What's it Wednesday</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.finecraftguild.com/vegan-hummus-bites-recipe-ombre-celtic-knot-bracelet-tutorial/" target="_blank">Time for a Party</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gingerlymade.com/2014/05/show-tell-76.html#more" target="_blank">Show and Tell</a></span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-82529197024710037492014-03-25T05:00:00.000-07:002014-03-27T16:54:14.935-07:00Sping has sprung - part I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000;">“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” <br />― Pablo Neruda</span> </h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These are from my front yard. We have not completed our landscaping work yet in our front yard. I am thinking it will be couple of years before we will be done done and done. LOL</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-19156430557034038062014-03-17T06:00:00.000-07:002014-03-18T23:03:21.602-07:00Painted pots - Garden decor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you all had a lovely relaxing weekend.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My life is returning back to normal slowly. It was too hot weather-wise this weekend in sunny southern California. I couldn't work in the yard. So to relax a little bit I decided to work on a fun project indoors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am planning to give this as a birthday gift to good friend of mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember guys, I fixed <a href="http://novicedecorator.blogspot.com/2014/01/small-modifications-big-impact.html" target="_blank">tassel</a> for one of my daughter's dresses couple of months ago for an engagement party. Yes, that party took place couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful party. we had lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did not do the flower arrangements they were pre ordered by the bride to be. What do you think? Which one did you like the best?</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-89038438026409049142014-03-09T22:44:00.000-07:002014-03-10T10:53:07.264-07:00Simple pleasures of life - flowers from the yard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have had a wonderful weather this weekend in my part of the world. Perfect southern California weather you might say. I wish I had time to enjoy this weather and do some yard work. This year I am way behind on my spring planting. Two more weeks and my work schedule should return back to normal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is one of the first rose blooms we have had. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't the blooms from your garden make you happy. Here are few pictures from the containers in my back yard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only White calla lilies are in bloom. Other colors are yet to bloom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do share what are you growing in your container garden? I would love to hear from you all.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-89162460277003172062014-03-08T10:44:00.004-08:002014-03-08T10:50:13.504-08:00Sending warn hugs on this day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you all have had a wonderful week. As I had mentioned earlier it been crazy but manageable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been blessed with some amazing women in my life. They have crossed many obstacles to get where they are and they are such a role model and inspiration. I am talking about my mom and mother in law. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My daughters are blessed</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to have them as grandmothers. They also have some very amazing and talented aunts. I cherish each of these relationships and friendships. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am leaving you all with the image of one of the art work my younger daughter worked on when she was in Bangalore for summer vacation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This sits at the landing of the staircase in our home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hope you have wonder weekend and wishing you all a very happy international women's day.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09924909475341591301noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530470860968017575.post-67889608279954384112014-02-24T05:08:00.000-08:002014-02-24T21:27:22.515-08:00Indianroots - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am back with a online store review this week. I am always on a look out for Indian decor items for the house and browsing around on the Internet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I landed on <a href="http://www.indianroots.com/" target="_blank">Indianroots</a> once such time. I am not being compensated or anything for this post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have some very interesting home decor stuff. Some are definitely a visual treat. Some items do sell out fast and you have move quickly if you like an item.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I just wanted to share some of the interesting items I found on their website.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.29px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ourdelightfulhome.blogspot.com/2014/02/live-show-me-what-you-got-linky-party_24.html" target="_blank">Show me what you got</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.29px;"><a href="http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com/2014/02/nifty-thrifty-tuesday-no201.html" target="_blank">Nifty thrifty Tuesday</a></span></li>
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