Pink - the Rani of 'em all this season!

Is it me blushing or is a lot of Pinks & Florals casting their spell this season! A lot of the blogs that I read have the color on their current posts here, and of course here, the color & prints seem to be hueing up my home in bits in pieces and today, one of the pages I look forward to in this morning's papers just splashed the pink in holi-is-here kind of abundance!

Off the net

Courtesy iDiva, Times of India, Mumbai. Hey don't miss the pretty Pink Stool

Lovely florals in pink hues on the Jaipur Bed cover & Cushions
and delicately etched floral bordering on the mirror

How pretty do these florals look on this tea set !

Image courtesy Shannon Darby's http://pinkwallpaper.blogspot.in

And Carpets, whether on the wall or for you to warm your feet on...

Courtesy Jessica Helgerson in Gray Magazine

My very own dash of Pink in my living room

Have a super Pink season, and as for me who took the Pink to be rather generic for most of my life, am quite falling over me over this new found love!!

Art imitates Life

I'm glad that we picked up this canvas from the local Nairobi market, a reminder, very often of our wonderful safari to the world of the Maasai tribes and of course, the wild that surrounds them in gracious abundance.

My striking memory of them, long legged, grouped together in bright clothing - overwhelmingly in red and some in blue/ black, striped & checkered cottons, magically contrasting the greens & browns of their milieu. They wear these textile or cotton sheets wrapped around the body, one over each shoulder, then a third over the top of them.
Look at all that jewellery! The Maasai women regularly weave and bead jewellery. This bead work plays an essential part in the ornamentation of their body. Apparently there are variations in the meaning of the color of the beads, some general meanings for a few colors are: white, peace; blue, water; red, warrior; blood, bravery.

Owing to contact with Europeans, great quantities of brightly colored European glass beads arrived in East Africa, and thereon, bead workers replaced the older beads with the new materials and began to use more elaborate color schemes. The result simply breathtaking!

Timeless...

Today was a perfect prelude to a weekend that promises to be lazy, today my 4-yr. old performed on stage for the very first time and how he performed!! Throats choked, hearts swelling, happy treads there on-  is how I describe the rest of the day.
So once home, when the remnant of the Mumbai winter-sun streamed into the very vibrant colors of our dining area, and onto the beautiful big roses that my Mom-in-law brought home yesterday, I just couldn't resist but pick up my camera and capture all that golden radiance of a timeless day.

Flea market junkies!

Have had this bedspread for more than a year now and have never remembered to use it on occasions as I'd thought while buying. We picked it up at the Anjuna Flea market in the November of 2010, an afternoon worth a thousand visits, as for the first time we were baptizing our 3 yr old son into what we both secretly love - be it a bit bohemian, bit gypsyish - to 'just be', soak in the smokes & sounds of a Hippies life, even if it is just half a day away from the sanctuary of a five star hotel stay!

So today with the sun streaming into my bedroom I remembered this small buy and just had to spread it on without any trimmings and here's what I got

and a peek at the sights & sounds of a local bar by the Anjuna coast, where we spent a whole afternoon - the Hippies revel in it still!

Colors of the glass

Have been very preoccupied (with life mostly) and am unable to bring all of myself to post; but hey there's always those lovely memories of some inspiration, some beautiful touches, some colors & shades spotted somewhere and I think, these blank periods can certainly do with some livening up with those moments 'frozen' in time?!

By the time I'm sharing this special one of the sunlight filtering in through the cane-woven blinds, am feeling much lighter & lit-up, literally

Who's coming to tea...

and stunning images of a virtually lit up ceiling in an Istanbul bar (Images courtesy: Narayan)

and I realise that the theme is so timeless that I have to end with 'to be continued'... Love & thank you for listening in!

White and contemporary!

My Singapore stay was special in that my home reflected a lot of what I wouldn't have been able to do in India. The white sofas, the very contemporary, modern apartment blended beautifully with my traditional wooden furniture from India. and yes Buddha entered by home in a major way!

It's magical how about a year before moving to Singapore I'd started craving (pregnancy induced) for white interiors, evincing a very specific wish for a white upholstered sofa seating in my living room, which, of course, became a frequent topic of banter between Narayan, our friends and me and the fact that Narayan owed it to fulfill my wish.

And it all fell into place!

Ikea cushions breaking the white monochrome

Narayan's inherited silver synced beautifully with the white 

View of the dining area

View from the entrance

the White of the drawing room offset with an amply colorful family/ TV area

My baby's favorite growing up area, the TV couch and the cosy family area

Irresistibly happy & sunlit corner

Echoes of my own mind, quite magically

One blog I religiously follow http://www.onceuponateatime.blogspot.com, quite magically posted these precise, beautiful yet whisperingly familiar lines from http://www.serenaandlily.com, of their Spring 2012 collection.

Just so seamlessly encompassing the essence of what crazy people like us feel about the beauty that we see and collect and why we do what we do!