I am in WE

 When I guess back on your cereals and grains….what is the one grain that sticks out? If I guessed wheat or rice, then you love me and that means I am a loyal person for you. But in all seriousness, yes you people eat the same types of cereals/grains, roti/rice everyday. And this may be very neurotic but I make sure to eat rotties of different grains with at least lunch or dinner (or both!) each day….why you may ask? Well I hope this isn’t too difficult, and you will see, it gets things moving. Whenever any of my close one complain to me about their health or……any food related issues, I always say, eat roties of different grains each day. I kid you not, it works. And when one of the customers for wheat flour at our local grain shop wonders why I buy 7 sac..read the whole article here and HERE
My another post on roties is HERE

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Me made doll.

Project Doll!

Project Doll!

It was our textile class, we have to submit a project (utility article out of waste). After submission all the articles from the whole class will be sold in the fair, we will got the original price of the material , while the profit was supposed to go for charity. i hurriedly went to our main library, search for a craft book for reference, it was scorching heat in the month of May, but library was cool with AC connection in the close sequence room, and the browsing room. It took me 2 hours to found out a big craft book, I go through it standing near the rack itself, and issued it for a week. In those days my parents were in Chandigarh. I was in our Chandigarh house the next day for a week’s holiday. My vacation wrapped up in making the project “DOLL”.The project worked out so fruitful ( I got A grade for it), and beautiful that every body praised for it. As soon as I submitted it to my teacher, she purchased( for Rs 5 )it at once than and there. That is ….No need to put it in “fair stall” for sale.

Now after the coming many years I made so many dolls for my nice-and nephews, children of my friends and relatives, for the children of my neighbors and dear ones. Whenever I was in need of a gift, I always used to make that doll, not only that, I used to have one in advance in my stock for sudden requirement, the cycle lasted for many years.

In the picture above my sister’s son ( he is a doing his computer-engineering these days) is holding the specimen doll, in his hand.
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Friday rain, and reblog

NDAY, JULY 7, 2013

I curled-up in my couch after a strain day's work, and had a nap. Soon  there was thunder storm with lots of sand and other materials fallowed by rain, it called a stop to my nap................and isit in front of my computer with a cup of tea...it happend with the following post on rain and i blogged it here......... 

Saturday Rain

Two days until Delhi. It is all I think about and had a nap.

A peaceful percussion of pitter-patter awoke me in the evening  just after three. I sent my niece and daughter in law for a very short run and let the sky fall wash over them like a holy bath. Living in the moment, they were and me too seeing them. And in that moment, I even forgot about Delhi.

Thank you, Saturday Evening Rain. I hope you stay all day.

Happy Rainy Day!

some posts are too cool to reblog again!again!!!!!and again !!!!!!!!!!!

Reduce Reuse and Recycle

I usually make the plarn out of plastic bags to crochet something useful but some plastic bags are hard to crochet 

plastic bags of sugar, grout, white cement, plaster of paris i made plarn out of these then braided them into a big braid!

Hereis the link for this rainy mat i made out of the braid
and  

here are my post on this rainy doormat

I unravel the mat  wrapped the braid over two paint tins for plant pots

braided plant pot in the varandah

braid covered  pot in the room 


again we people bored with the looks of the plant pots and up-cycled them 

Up-cycled braids on the floor in the sun so that they become soft to coil into the mats

third time i made three table mats out of that very plarn braid.

 the second place mat

 the third place mat
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The tradition of ear studs/Bujalis (traditional Haryanvi Jewelrycgn bbvg)

  

 Traditional Haryanvi earrings and nose rings need very large ear/nose lobe holes...

Ear piercing has been practiced all over the world since ancient times. There is considerable written and archaeological evidence of the practice Among the Haryanvi woman of India, earrings were a sign of nobility and wealth, as the placement of each earring on a girl had to be purchased at an expensive  gold of 10 gram.

   Method used to enlarge their earlobe gauze was using…

• Peacock feather stem

• Tamarind powder

• Mustard oil

• Water

They cut the feather stems (starting from one stick) twice the thickness of their earlobes, after piercing they used to wear metal (silver or gold) rings, after healing (they used to apply mustered oil and, tamarind powder, for healing). After healing they insert one stick from peacock feather after making it very thin ( using water and rubbing the sticks with to and fro movement in palms to make the sticks as thin as they can),after insertion they spray water on ear lobes, so that the thin sticks gradually swallows and make the earlobes large. They had to repeat the process tow-three times a day. After some days they insert another set of feather sticks, they used to increase the number of sticks, thus made their earlobe -holes larger to accommodate their large earrings i.e. bujlies.

though in this picture silver bujlis and nose purli  are  of silver metal
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मेरा सिलाई का हुनर!

जी हाँ! कभी- कभी यहमेरा जूनून बन जाता है ..
मैंने जब से होश संभाला है मैं अपने कपड़े स्वयं सिलाई करती आई हूँ, जहाँ तक सिलाई सीखनेका सवाल है, मैंने छठी में गृह-विज्ञान विषय लिया था. मेरे बावजी की बीच स्त्र में आगरापोस्टिंग हुई थी और आगरा किसी भी स्कूल में दाखिला ना मिलने पर मैंने तोशम स्कूल मेंदाखिला लिया और छठी कक्षा के कोई 4-5 महीने मैंने वहाँ सिलाई सीखी थी, उसमें सिलाई सेज्यादा कढ़ाई एव्म खानादारी ही ज्यादा थी. मुझे याद है मैं बाकी लड़कियों से बहुत छोटी थी,उस समय मैक्रेम के पर्स बनाने का बहुत रिवाज था, वह मुझे इतना कठिन लगता था कि कभीउसपर हाथ आजमाने की कोशिस मैंने नहीं की. हाँ मोती पीरो कर एक बैग मैंने जरूर बनायाथा जो मैक्रेम की आसान गाँठ से बनाया था।

मैक्रेम की आसान नोट (गाँठ)

बाद में मैंने यह विधा सीखी और अपनी ग्रेजुएशन की पढ़ाई कर, बेटे को पालने की गरज सेजब कुछ 2-3 वर्ष घर में रही तब यह बैग जो मुश्किल (मुझे उस समय लगती थी) नोट में बनाया गया है,और यह पर्स जो यहाँ ऊपर दिखाया गया है आसान नोट (जिस नोट से मैने छठी कक्षा मैं बैग बनाया था)
फिर से सिलाई की बात...
फिर मैंने सातवीं और आठवीं कक्षा में आगरा में भी कुछ सिलाई सीखी थी.
इसके बाद प्रेप में एफ सी कालेज में सीखी, और गृह विज्ञान विषय से ग्रेजुएशन करते वक्त भीकुछ सीखी.
सबसे बड़ी बात...
छठी कक्षा से मैंने अपने द्वारा सिले कपड़े ही पहने ...इसके साथ-साथ अपनि दोनों बहानों छोटेहोते तक मेरे दोनों भाइयों के कपड़े अपने बच्चों के कपड़े, अपनी बहनों के बच्चों के कपड़े,भाइयों के बच्चों के (बीच-बीच में)....फिर जब मैं अपनी यह विधा मैग्जिनो में भेजने लगी और...प्रकाशित होने लगी तो इसमें अधिक नीखार आया.
बड़ा अच्छा लगता है अपनी विधा प्रकाशित होती है और अन्य लोग सीखते हैं...सराहते हैं....
नीचे मेरी बिटिया के मेरे सिले कुछ सलवार सूट एव्म चूड़ीदार सूट प्रस्तुत है.....नीचे मेजंटा सूट जिन्हें दो चुन्नियों के साथ टीम किया है ..यह फूलो वाली चुन्नी जो पहले मेरी मम्मी की साडी थी जिससे मैने पटियाला सलवार और मैचिंग प्लेन कमीज से टीम कर यह चुन्नी ल़ी थी...यह नानी की साडी की चुन्नी बिटिया पर सजी है......क्या बात है तीन पीढ़ियों का एक ही परिधान! है ना यादगार सुनहरे लम्हे!
यह नीले चूडीदार नीले सूट की चुन्नी का कपड़ा दुबई से मेरी सहेली सुरेन्द्र लेकर आई थी बिटिया ने सलवार के कपड़े की चुन्नी बनवा ल़ी और इतना कपड़ा था कि कमीज के कपड़े से यह चूडीदार सूट बन गया!...


बिटिया जो आजकल पैंट ही पहनती है....कुछ वर्ष पहले उसे प्लेन सूट पहनने का चाव आया तो मैं उसके लिये ढेर सारे कपड़े अलग-अलग रंगों में और विभिन्न मेक मैं ले आई और सिल डाले अ....ब्बब्बब्ब यह सब वार्डरोब मैं विश्राम पर हैं..

khadi suit

khadi suit 

और यह ऊपर दिखाए कुछ सूट जो मैने जयपुर से खरीदे थे खादी के यह सूट जिन्हें मैने पी एच डी (मैने राजस्थान यनिवर्सिटी, जयपुरसे पी एच डी की थी ) जयपुर करते समय बार-बार के जयपुर के दौरों के वक्त बापू नगर मार्केट से खरीदे थे इन सुतो की सिलाई मैं मुझे कोई मशक्कत नहीं करनी पड़ी यह चुन्नी के साथ मैच करते सूट खुद में एक मिसाल हैं ......हैं ना खुबस्सुरत! लाजवाब!
यह नीचे संत्री रंग के सूट के साथ फ़िर से मम्मी की साड़ी से बने मेरे पटियाला सलवार सूट की चुन्नी जो बिटिया ने आपने इस सूट के साथ मैच की है....यह हल्का नीला चूडीदार सूट .....सफेद चुन्नी के साथ...
नीचे गुलाबी सूट कि जालीदार चुन्नी भी कभी मेरे सूट के साथ की है, जिसे बिटिया ने पसंद नहीं किया था पर यहाँ मेरे लिये जरुर मोडलिंग कर दी थी....
सभी सूट बड़े सीधे-सीधे बिना किसी ख़ास डिजाइन के सिले गए हैं ......
सच मैं मेरे बचे मेरे हुनर के शिकार रहे हैं!
शब्बा खैर!

Tuesday Views

On Tuesday, we were in Jind making preparations for Rekha's wedding. On our way back home, I caught a glimpse of the setting sun casting its golden glow over the horizon.

Golden hour views through the windshield. सफर, ढलता सूरज और खूबसूरत रास्ते।

When industry meets the beauty of nature.चिमनियों के बीच से छनकर आती ढलते सूरज की सुनहरी किरणें।

An incredible silhouette against the evening sky सूरज की रोशनी और धुएं का यह अनोखा नजारा।

Chasing the setting sun on the way back home.कार की खिड़की से झांकता सुनहरा शाम का सूरज।

 

A peaceful evening drive wrapped in warm twilight.घर वापसी का सफर और ढलती शाम की खूबसूरती.

There is something deeply magical about sunset and sunrise photos. The way the world gets bathed in rich shades of red, orange, and yellow instantly elevates the whole mood. What I love even more are the shots captured right from the road, with open crop fields stretching out alongside. Capturing that glowing sun through the car window during a peaceful drive is always special.

The last rays of daylight filtering through the trees. खेतों और पेड़ों के पीछे से मुस्कुराता सूरज।

Catching the fiery sun right before it disappears.शाम की यह लालिमा और शांत राहें।

  As the car kept moving, the sun seemed to tag along with us through the trees and power towers. If you missed the view on Tuesday, here is a glimpse of that big, bright, beautiful sunset.

I was in the car, so the sun and I stuck together. I just love it when it's big, bright, and round.

I’m a huge fan of beautiful sunset and sunrise pictures. There’s something about the world being bathed in that red and yellow light that makes everything look extra magical. Even more special to me are the sunset shots taken from roads passing through crop fields—capturing what that setting sun looks like during a ride.

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