A Crochet Lace

Enjoyed making this crochet lace. Spent 2 days to make a lace long enough to stitch as sleeves for a dress. But on completion, realized the colour, look & feel may not blend well with the dress.


So this lace is waiting in my Lace Collection (Box) waiting to be used; just like 2 other laces, which were started out to be Crochet Tops. Only to realize that Thread Crochet is a lot of work :( but I must say it's interesting as well.

Well, Another Chickoo Pic

This one has a different pattern. Most other Chickoo slices look like they have a Spider on them.

Long Time, No See!

Finally blogging after a long gap. Well, this post is not about something, but it's about just some random thoughts:

• So many things look such a waste of time after they are completed. Looking for meaning in what I do, which I often don't find/see.
  
• Interests change with time. Sometimes I wonder how I have not been embroidering for 3 yrs now; something I was crazy about. Then was an avid crocheter. Then a long break from crochet.
• Things change - like my internet speed - probably this is what took away the fun from blogging.

Well, out of thoughts now :)

Spider design in Chickoo

2 weeks ago, papa sliced a Chickoo (Sapota) and the structure (lines, spaces for seeds) looked like a spider

2005 Diwali Rangoli- Sanskar Bharati

Just came across this snap by chance when copying data from old CDs. I had seen this rangoli in a newspaper and wanted to try it. This is a Sanskar Bharati rangoli. They are basically free hand designs where motifs are practiced and later incorporated to form large rangolis.

Think this was drawn somewhere in November 2005 on Diwali.

Just missed February 2009 by a year

Know what, just realized this year that most February's have 4 Sundays, 4 Mondays, 4 Tuesdays, 4 Wednesdays, 4 Thursdays, 4 Fridays and 4 Saturdays...... and I thought wow, that's a perfect month.

But realized that I missed the Perfect month by almost a year....

Take a look at February 2009: The Perfect Month

Tarkarli Beach, Konkan, Maharashtra - a Family Vacation

Tarkarli Beach is one such beach I had been waiting to visit, ever since papa mentioned about it in January 2009. Lovely waters, they are so clear, clean, and the best part you can walk into the sea for several meters and the water level is only knee-deep. By the way, the other beach I am waiting to visit is Tilamati Beach in Karwar; my sister-in-law's told me that the sand is very grainy over there, almost like sesame seeds. 'Til' meaning 'Sesame seeds' in my mother tongue 'Konkani'.

I shot this video on 1st January, 2010. It was the day after the Lunar Eclipse and we were all on the beach since probably 9 in the morning till way until 12 noon.

On Tarkarli Beach, just before we started to leave we came across a few fishermen who were about to take their boats to the sea. They were not intending to go fishing right away, but somewhere in the evening. They also mentioned that it gets too difficult to be taking their boat to the sea as it gets sunnier (afternoons). I wish I could have stayed a little longer to continue the video recording for a few more minutes. It had been 5 minutes or so since all my family members had cleared from Tarkarli Beach, so couldn't help ending the video.

After getting drenched in the waters of Tarkarli, we went boating on River Karli to see the point where River Karli meets Arabian Sea. Kind of "Karli meets Tarkarli". Also, a little further from there we landed on Tsunami Island (an island formed by Tsunami that hit South India in 2004).

That River + Sea was full of Seagulls. I regret one video using my mobile camera - I thought I clicked on shooting the video & minutes later when we were away from the group of Seagulls, I saw the message "Camera on Standby". Argggh!!!