I just want to say…..
A VERY HAPPY DIWALI!
and
(especially to all my Gujarati friends and readers for tomorrow)
A very prosperous and fulfilling new year! Saal Mubarak!
I specially want to greet all my blogger friends too; whom of late I have not been able to communicate through comments.)
(images via flickr)
Don’t worry – he tells me!
This is a modern day Vishnu for me. A calming, don’t panic image-support for me. When I want to do many things, thinking have to do all the things and have no time, absolutely no time and energy left then this evergreen image saves me. Like God Vishnu you can sleep on a deadly serpent and be in utter bliss.
(can’t remember where did I get this image from, perhaps a card or back cover of a book!)
Baga beach
I still have a few conch shells and pebbles I had picked up from beaches of Goa when I went there as a teenager. There was no Konkan Rail at that time and so no Konkan Ghat stunning scenic beauty on our way to Goa from Mumbai. But I remember being surrounded in the mist of ocean while coming back at night by bus.
Through these random images I hope you get the whole picture of Goa- today and history as well as architecture. The Portuguese encounter in Goa has ensured uniqueness in culture and architecture.
raj angan (courtyard)
This is a traditional Hindu courtyard surrounded by a colonnaded gallery called ‘chouki’.
velha Goa-old Goa
the Portuguese lady by famous Goan artist Mario Miranda
fishermen @ Zuari river Goa
I saw this image on emmas lovely blog and got curious.
I clicked the link and found these very cozy and full of hidden surprises- home. This lovely home belongs to designers of something’s hiding in here. (hello there! I did not find your names anywhere. One of you Philly?) There blog too is full of funny and cute little things they sell.
hi hidden, coming out?
deery, why bother yourself with vintage dictionaries!
can’t say ‘outside there window’ view is not engaging.
I love doing a lot of crafts. I call myself a simple craftisan. So there is going to be a regular column-post in my sidebar
CraftWorm
strating from today. I will be featuring near & crafty ones, my own DIY and crafts and other simple DIY.
Today is a simple tie & dye DIY project.
Click on the image to go to the site.
(In Brahmi script I have tried to write read me)
read me ?
Harappan script (ca. 2600-1900 BC)
Magical Stela, 360-343 B.C.E, Egypt
I can’t read these!
Can you?
But I think I read these scripts.
I read: —
That our ancestors wrote too beautifully! Do you agree?
That curious caterpillar in me gets so aroused I go green.
(Please donot correct my words I want to describe this way only.)
That mystery of not knowing what is written arouses what I call lovely fear in me.
That my fascination drives me to use these scripts/images in various DIY ways:–
? All the time I use these kinds of images as my desktop background.
my desktop
?Years ago I had copied these scripts in clay and put on wall as a decor piece.
in this shape now
?I want to do walls of narrow passageway in my new home with these scripts translated in clay including the lippankam method of Kutch, Gujarat.
(Lippankam is a dying art & craft I just love so much. Simple motifs are made with clay and small mirrors on the walls. Will do a post on lippankam later though I am terribly short of images.)
Stela, Egypt
Indus script (ca. 3000-1200 BC)
Brahmi script- ca. 3rd century BC
(click to enlarge)
