Brazilian Embroidery

Voila, I am writing after ages...its nearly 2 years since I last posted on this blog. I login everyday to follow my fav blogs but never make an effort to write.
My reason to write today is to show off the brazilian embroidery piece that I did. Last year I had learnt BE from Deepa Balagopal and got the kit from Edmar through her.
With the busy Banagalore life, I do not find that much time to do embroidery. There are so many projects that I have started and have never been able to complete them...they have remained WIP for years now. Considering that, I managed to complete this kit in 6 months which is a record for me :-). Of course I worked for say totally about 10 days in this six months to complete this kit. Here are some closer shots on the flowers.

This one is my fav, I loved the way it came out:

This one with bullion+bullion lazy daisy:

This one in lazy daisy which I think is one of the most beautiful stitches to represent flowers:

And the center flower which I quite liked as well:

Regards,

Abilasha.

Diyas

Diyas, deeps, deepas, vilakku...as they are called in differentIndian languages carry a lot of significance in Hinduism. They come in many forms and shapes and are also made from many materials- brass, silver, clay lamps, candles, even artificial lights. Clay lamps are my most favourite- they give you a lot of scope for painting and decorating them.

I had decided on painting some diyas and putting them on sale during dussera for this diwali. Dusserah is one festival during which a lot of people visit home and thought it would be the best time to sell the painted diyas. The whole idea started last year when my mom asked me to paint a few basic diyas to gift her friends. They had come out quite well and I wanted to try some more things.

I had bought 5 kinds of diyas- basic clay diyas in 2 sizes, basic terracota diyas, the decorative ones and 2 slightly big ones where one can use five "thiris". Oops i should have taken pictures of these before I painted them. I always wanted to blog on this...don't know how it slipped out of my mind.

I had a lot of fun doing this. I did do some in mono-color and the best part of the whole project was the trying of different color combinations. Then I decided to add one more color to them by pouring some colored wax into these ( not all of them though!).

I have added some pictures of the diyas and would like to know your opinion about them. ( If at all anyone is reading my blog....;-))

My first thoughts

First of all, Welcome Abilasha to blogging!!!

For many years now ( after the whole concept of blogging came in to existence of course) I have never thought of writing my own blog! Even today I have started only because I really have nothing to do. A person can only browse the net and search for things to a certain extent ( although the internet offers info about very many things in the universe). In fact I have run out of topics of my interest that I could browse for. And of course, I have now mastered the art of playing Spider Solitaire( two suits) that I am really bored of it. So I thought the best thing to do is to start writing, well blogging.

I have not decided of course what I will write about, hence the welcome first thoughts. Let me consider some options on what i would like to post on my blog- recipes ( I am beginning to love cooking and some experimenting), embroidery and handicrafts ( my most favourite things to do) travel ( something that I am ready for any time)and life in general (may be!).

Okay that should do for now.