Thank You!

Encouragements,Good words and Blessings take you a long way:)-Its been a learning experience for me so far with my small time blog which just started as a result of decorating a small home in the Northern India and a love for photographing the small things at home. Greatful to all who have been reading the posts and loving my images.

Thankful for including my blog "Celebrations Decor" in "Hindustan Times estates" as one among India's top Interior Decor Blogs.

Eye Candy for Diwali!

This Diwali..Get inspired for to create the stunning displays at home.The love for all things beautiful helps me create new displays and here I show you all the colours beautiful that gets appealing to the eyes..So why wait..fall in love with them..

flowers so tiny but beautiful

flowers in lassi glasses

traingle formation

beautiful and yellow arresting formation on the table

tiny and white ,beautiful

brass and pinks

vintage glass bottles and flowers and candles

silver and violets..

beautiful handpainted lamp

beautiful vignette form the blog Paakashaala.com

beautiful colours assembled

carnations and marigolds together

simply beautiful

beautiful blues

simple and grey 

prayers on the altar

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                                       Ideas for this post :Lakshmi Arvind

Festival Season at home..Diwali time

The fragrance filled the air

The musky aroma of the dull oranges,at thy feet

The bubble of warmth and the fragrance of the divine worship at Diwali

Mornings moments fresh and fragrant at Diwali time

Fresh garlands of seasonal flowers , vivid pink lotus buds,shimmering fabric that evoke the prayers

As Dusk slowly enveloped the house,the diwali evening was beautiful

Celebrate...and enjoy...as the house warms up for diwali!

A  Kaleidoscopic view of the festival season at our home

As I wait for another Diwali Morning:)-

Loved these lines on" A Diwali Morning"

On Diwali morning
her childhood returns: dew 
on the burnt grass, birds in flight 
singing, pampering by her aunts, 
the rustling of new dresses, 
delectable meals and sweets 

Joy sugared the air, as bright 
as firecrackers exploding.

On a November night 
the festival would arrive: the perfect 
opening notes of a symphony 
that would decide the fate of the planet. 
Each moment was alive: 
it was like being washed in the geyser 
of memory.

(Charles Fishman)

Home stitched beauties as cushions,Small golden beads that got stitched on to the sides:)-

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love(Henry ward)

Worship is Divine..Everyday life has become my prayer(Sarah Ban)d caption

The bangles as votive holder

 As i wait for another Diwali Morning:)-

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Warm wishes on Vinayaka Chaturthi..my daughters way

Wishing all loved ones and my dear readers a Happy Ganesh Chaturthi.
Wishing you moments as sweet as his Laddus..
Interest,love ,dedication and concentration of my seven year old ,with my help she makes a small beautiful white clay Ganeshji..and some violets from the garden .

a painting drawn by my daughter(form the archives)

an attempt by her in making ganeshji with white clay

Thanks to Shalini,my dearest friend  who gifted me some clay and we were waiting for a good opportunity to open the packet.

Prabuddha Dasgupta an Inspiration!

Prabhuddha Dasgupta and his images still keep flashing in mind and I still think about him. He shouldnt have gone so soon, it wasn't the time for him, But then Why...Life has its own ways ..

Years back, in Vogue..the images that caught everybodys attention..that was the first time, even I knew about him.

Although he preffered the monochrome images, the colours that came across in  his images were extraordinary. They reflected  the rich colours of India and always left me trying to learn a lot from his images. Seasons and its colours were best shown by him. There was always a sense of connection which we could establish in his images and he had the power of bringing extraordinary beauty in the ordinary. Intensity in all forms could be found in all his images ,it seems the images speak a thousand words.

As TOI reports "An intense man with so many Auras, India's Avedon Prabhuddha Dasgupta wanted to give us images that burnt in our memory long after they were seen no more''.

Lakshmi Menon as "Frida Kahlo"

the ordinary into an extraordinary.

the colours richly captured

loved all the blues

mellow yellows..,bright yellows

colour combinations..yellows and browns

1 to 9 Images Courtesy:from here

9-14 images courtesy:Vogue 2009,2010

for more images,look here and here

All Images courtesy: Prabuddha Dasgupta

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