This is my first attempt at making daisies and daffodils. I still need a lot of practice.
Clay Shell & Rose Wreath
A wreath made of clay shells, starfishes, and roses. The wreath base is also made of clay. I’ve painted the shells with acrylics to give a natural look.
My Little Balcony Garden (2012)-2
Posting some more photos of my garden đ
Fenugreek (Methi) Seedlings
Tomato flowers
Little Tomato
I grow Fenugreek and Coriander plants in these big rectangular pots. I planted both at the same time but Coriander seeds take a very long time to germinate.
Fenugreek & Coriander
Crossandra
Crossandra Flowers & Fenugreek harvest
My little Balcony Garden (2012)-1
This was my little balcony garden in Nagoya. I had cyclamen, roses, crossandra & pink jasmine plants. I even grew tomatoes! đ
Single Dahlia
Flower Rangoli – Ugadi 2012
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.
M-Seal Craft
Home Sweet Home! I made this during my college days and I just can’t believe it was 10 years ago!!
The background is a square wooden piece painted black. I used white M-seal to craft the flowers &Â leaves and then painted them using acrylic colours. Finally, wrote/painted “Home Sweet Home” .
The pen stand is so special to me.  It was gifted to me by my college friends in the final year.
Little Birdies
I made these little birds using felt and was wondering what to do with them.
Recently, we bought Ikea’s Kallax shelf and placed it below the clock in our living room. I tried this combination on top of the shelf. A photo frame, house, books and the birds on either side of the clock.
The house is a replica of GasshĹ-zukuri Minka from Shirakawa-gĹ, Gifu, Japan. I made the photo frame using shells and corals collected from Miyakojima, Okinawa. đ The two Shisas (lion dogs) are also from Okinawa.
Moth drinking nectar
This is a video of a moth drinking nectar from the flowers in our garden.The plant is Jasminum polyanthum (Pink Jasmine). We shot this video last spring. Gk spotted the moth and we recorded it immediately with the iPhone 5s we had at that instant. This is something I can’t forget because it was a day before we moved to Tokyo. Now waiting for this year’s bloom. I am seeing some pink buds already đ
Place: Nagoya, Japan
Date:Â April 30, 2015Â
Flower Rangoli – Ugadi 2011
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 LifeâŚ!!! It goes onâŚ
Link to the post:Â 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 đ
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!
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