Relax,Sip and Enjoy

*Come relax and enjoy at home

*Thats what we think when we start off on our visit to the home town

*Last month at home had been busy with wedding,sorting out sarees,making jewellery,ordering running errands and inviting.....

*In between the last minute busy schedules,I tried my level best to have some time for myself,enjoying the warm sun,sipping tea,the morning light,my favourite grills and windows and so on....

*Some spa treatments at home,relax and enjoy for less....

*Late morning oil baths at home

*Some routines we still try and practice at home

*Practiced by grandma and passed on to mom and then trying to pass it onto the generations next

*Hibiscus leaves happily wait for us to be pressed and give us the green juice,thts what i told my little one

*Turmeric makes us fair ,Coconut scrub for the skin ,tulsi and flowers for the  hair.....

*Now that the bath is over and the simple meal at home on banana leaf is over ,its time for a nap

*Nap times werent much this time at home,but we managed some ...

*While i take my nap,do enjoy the images

Ideas and Images conceived by Lakshmi Arvind

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Mellow Memories

*Mellow Memories
*Missing home
*Missing the togetherness
*Missing the evening tea times

*Missed the simple meal on banana leaves

Missing the reflections,shadows and mellow light
*Missing the hibiscus blooms ,that went into different urulis each day
*Missing the flooring which helped me capture all the reflections in its true spirit
*I miss each moment i spent ....

*Memories of home... It is music which will open your heart and heal your soul as you take a journey ...

*simple things which helped me make compostions

*frames just get set into mind 

*moments of laughter and joy

*moments of separation,swelling tears in eyes

*To wipe your tears away put your head on my shoulder cause daddy's here . ...

*I am extremely blessed to have a wonderful husband
*Moments spent in celebration

Marigolds and Marriage

*M is for MArigold

*M is for MArriage

*Beautiful marriage between marigolds and other flowers

*The smell of jasmine when you are standing quietly in a garden on a moolit night….(yes,I love jasmine:))..the way we use marigolds for everything..:)from festivals to weddings to gods and even on a last journey….flowers are so much a part of us…are we the only country that uses flowers so?:)

*The roses as an offering to Shiva…the white jasmine in venis and gajras…:)( humming genda phool are you?)*The way a certain sacredness pervades our life at every corner..lowers

*The Indian wedding flower

*marvellous colours indeed

*we followed the tradition by using marigolds and jasmine for the flower decoration for this marriage

*A din of bells, drums, and chants; the mingled odour of incense and jasmine flowers wound around the bushy tuft of charcoal black hair of women

*The flute and violin that sang a thousand ragas

*the beautiful semblance of flowers,lamps and Nettipattom(the ornamental headgear for temple elephants during festive occassions and also the beaded umbrella (Muthukuda)used only during festive occassions)

headgears of the elephants are all gold plated

*marriage resembled a big festive occassion for the family.

*the sheer riot of colors ..the zari,gota,salma sitaara..:)the beauty that is in them

*kancheepurams this time brought were all in shades of light pink to bright pink to oranges for the family....

*the cacophony of noises,the medley of colours…

*sarees in and jewellery in ……the sheer confusion of it all…and yet where else would one find this beautiful insanity?

*The sheer love of jewellery that we seem to have…its absolute madness…and yet not madness…

it was an occassion to see all pinks and orange kancheepurams

*The bride adorned a bright chilly red saree

*The way we celebrate marriage here is with our heart and souls

*Its a Celebration of Life

*I almost smelt the marigolds and roses and jasmines while writing......

*We wait for more occassions and more marigolds......

Sweets for all,Good News....

Gulabjamuns on the King Fisher flight,way home,Kerala

*you may all be wondering!is it so?

*Have some sweets

*Its Celebrations at home

*Its my only sister's wedding

*On my way home,into the greeneries and the world of sloping tiles ,backwaters and lakes

*Into the music season with my grandma

*world of togetherness

*moments to cherish

*radiant star lit eveings

*the fragrance of mallippoo

*The prosperity of marigolds and turmeric

*Kancheepurams and Photoshoots..

*takes me five years back to my wedding season

*enjoyments at home

*prayers and blessings

*live happily forever

*will bring you lot of images and lovely moments

Happy Holi !

*Holi,a festival of colours.Not much celebrated at our home

*But we bought colours this time for Photoshoots.Colours and flowers ,a gorgeous combination at home,the whole frames and the moods lifted us to a new level.Salabanjhika-"torch bearers" at my home,had hands full of colours and flowers,flowers and colours had an amazing fragrance...colours which fell on the news paper,looked like a star sprankled night sky.we simply gazed at the colours and flowers

*It was all of a sudden , my little one started sprinkling colours on her and on all of us,then it was a play of colours at home,captured some colourful moments

*amazing images of the celebrations of our life to yours

*hope you all enjoy the flower colours

Images and Ideas conceived By Lakshmi Arvind

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