Ugadi 2016

April 9, 2016April 9, 2016Leave a comment

Back to India for this Ugadi! 🙂 Having a great time with everyone at home. My sister & sister-in-law are also here to celebrate. Lots of fun! This time I wanted to experiment with the rangoli stencils instead of flower rangoli. We went to the market and bought few of them. These are some of the stencils I bought.

On the night before Ugadi, we made this rangoli at our place.

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The next morning, we went to our grandma’s place. We three of us tried the rangoli using stencils and some flowers. It’s summer here and we weren’t much comfortable doing it as we were sweating all over. We made Obbattu, Vada & Ugadi pachadi. My mom took this opportunity to add Dill leaves/ Sabakki leaves to the vada to make it healthier. My sister is an expert in making Ugadi pachadi. It’s made of jaggery (sweet-happy), tamarind(sour-disgust), chilli(hot-anger), neem(bitter-sad), salt (fear)& mango(tangy-surprise).

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There was another wonderful moment. My LO was playing with his Great Great Grandmother 🙂 It was very cute!

Flower Rangoli – Ugadi 2012

January 15, 20161 Comment

Another Ugadi Rangoli! This was in 2012. I was in Nagoya and didn’t have many flowers on hand. I used roses from my little balcony garden and bought some chrysanthemums. I like using green leaves in rangoli. Here I’ve used rose leaves.

All these beautiful roses ended up in my rangoli.

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Flower Rangoli – Ugadi 2011

January 5, 2016Leave a comment

I made this flower rangoli for Ugadi in 2011. We celebrated it at my grandma’s place. My grandma loves gardening and all the flowers were from her garden. I had posted the pictures in my blog Life…!!! It goes on…

Link to the post: https://keerthanavc.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/ugadi2011/

Two years back, I saw a facebook profile which had this rangoli picture. I used Google Images to search by image and found that this picture is being used by one of the online greeting website 😉

This is one of the link that copied my picture.

http://blessingsonthenet.com/greetings/indian-festival/id/155/ugadi-greetings

Some more close-up pictures..

And that’s me!

Diwali 2015

November 12, 2015November 12, 20151 Comment

We celebrated Diwali yesterday. Diwali is one of my favourite festival. I missed India a lot. The colours, flowers, sweets, diyas…. (and no.. not the crackers). Missed all the liveliness. Here it was just another weekday.

My grandma bought me a silver diya/lamp during my last India trip and it was perfect for this Diwali. The lamp has a Ganesh with five diyas.

I used few flowers from our garden for the decoration around the lamp. I had paper garlands of jasmine and crossandra which was perfect for the background.

I also bought some wall stickers and candles from the dollar shop. The wall stickers looked like rangoli. So I used them as fillers/border around the flower arrangement.

We had some sparklers from last year’s Hanabi and thought our little one might be interested. Gk lit them in our garden space and was persuading him to hold it but instead he started yelling Fire! Fire..!! So we had to stop.. 🙂 Although it was a short and quiet Diwali, we enjoyed it.