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Saturday, October 29, 2011

TARNETAR - A Get Together Of Colors, Energy And Joy

The tarnetar is a fair and festivity event that takes place at the Trinetreshwar temple in a small hamlet called tarnetar. It is situated in the south of Gujarat some 25 kms from Rajkot.

Photo courtesy - Satyam Dave

The people from all over the saurashra region throng the fair wearing the best emroiderd colourfull clothes and the traditional jewelery. It is a festival of revelry. The place where this fair is celebrated is said to be the place where Draupadi choose Arjuna as her Husband after he won the matsyabhedam competition in her swayamwar.

Photo courtesy - Satyam Dave

Photo courtesy - Satyam Dav

The colorful and decorated chatris (umbrellas) signify a bachelor. The fair is also a place where the tribal youths look for suitable brides for themselves.

Photo courtesy - Satyam Dave

The mela is full of mesmerizing colors, folk art, music, happy faces and fun. Visitors from far off places and even foreigners come over to visit and enjoy the revelry.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Buzzing Like The Busy Bees

With so many things to do life is certainly very busy, and I am happy with the fact that these days I don’t actually have time for any negativity or negative thoughts.I am actually blogging like the busy bees. It’s rightly said that an empty mind is a devils workshop, so I am trying to be an angel by keeping my self busy and its QED (quite easily done). Inspiration- you guessed it right the bees. They keep themselves busy but not without a reason!! After all, that hard work they put into building a beehive it is definitely a beauty and an amazing work of architecture.

Some beautiful jewelry on Etsy- with bumblebees and honeycomb patterns

Honey hoarder bee necklace

Opal Ring Flower Bee Filigree

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Cute Hand Crafted Book Marks

Have been reading twilight these days and loving it!! Slogging on the computer and then reading a book can be torture to the eyes, so I make it a point not to read too much in one sitting. I have a small brown paper chip to keep between the pages so that I do not miss the page. Since I did not want to spend for a bookmark, I searched the net and found some novel ideas to craft out a book mark for my self.

:)) i can use this book mark for a hair band as well but i am not sure if it will be so gentle with the almost worn out pages of my book.

The origami book mark is unusual, have never seen something like this, it seems to be very easy to use and make.

Cute felt motifs stuck on to ice candy sticks!!Aren't these really cute bookmarks? Confused which one should i go for!! any suggestions? i guess i could make all three and use them alternatively :)

Thursday, October 20, 2011

An Evening At An Art And Craft Mela – part II

Amazing clay work and statues sprawled across the grounds. Soldiers, musicians, Villagers in traditional get ups and many more...

humm ar you ready for some folk songs here!!
© Preety Paranjape & D’zineDais

Jewelery maker.. at work.
© Preety Paranjape & D’zineDais

Stalls of jewellery displays in rows!! these stalls were stacked with women and i had a tough time getting a decent picture.. without any of the clamouring customers heads popping in between.

Different types of mukhvas (various flavored mouth fresheners) ... i bought mix pan, anardana and rose supari.. i got to taste most of the samples :)) delicious imli in different flavors and dried mangoes as well...

A shoe stall.. couldn't believe the variety he had in such a small place, jutis, chappals, sandals, kolhapuris, jaipuris, oshos and the list is endless.

Finally we bargained the best price for a set of kullars (my friend was obsessed about buying them and was damn exited that shell be having tea in a kullar the next day)...I already had a list of items to buy in mind and left with a plan to visit again and shop some more....

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

An Evening At An Art And Craft Mela

Diwali is just round the corner and the markets are buzzing with activity!! An utsav 2011 mela was set up in the city and we planned a visit!! Its been just a while I started blogging and not yet used to taking my camera every where I go!! Thoughts definitely remain occupied thinking about the blog and what to post next!! So finally without a camera and a mobile with a low battery I managed as many pics as I could. Now here I am compensating the quality of pics with quantity!!

Just as you enter a sea of lots and lots of crockery’s, mugs and pots and lots of pottery meets the eye.

The mela was full of fun, food, flowers, colors and lights. The shopkeepers displayed their goods with such amazing skills that would put a designer to shame.

It was no high-end home décor Shoppe with great lighting. It was just an open space and the products were placed on the ground. But the display and beauty and the artistry was just matchless.

Artistic diyas (oil and wick lights) these are the ones where you can light the multiple diyas fill the center with water and float flowers in it! – remember deepavali is a festival of lights. I was disappointed not to find any rangoli colors. Ill have to get them from elsewhere.

A small shop with floating diyas lit up and kept for display really made me feel like Diwali was here!!

To be continued..