warm blush...

<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522551320066077474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqQrva0J07Boy35RNpeuG-yzABl5aaRWxjO3NQmYLoQ-9wSQAP5y71ydMr-HCD4K05UY_PZg57sN254lW36xccdQU5LJFYpVzY9ESMrFp_aAV3frcdOCJh_oJcpkPGd5eDmUF_NxTp09E/s400/ros1.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" /></div>It's official, in my home the <i><b>'warm pink'</b></i> is the fall colour:-)<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522551328656375010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjZIoJCwuXY9d3RKkBU9WynPmiHiN39Y4-w42_vMLidnMDXzUrvnXPrfryWNY3yrqmp1dPA2jQjXTRhCz7hqjO2wAHiNZND9uYYEFEX9CwY4PmlZ_fRYRCAUaOo035W2gEMOcaWC0rhw/s400/ros3.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 400px; " /></span><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522551324464555410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5bYnzHAA10J3fPP2lDBvz5rW1a0esONZA0hcFu5W31bObeKDnzqwh6Rf9hRYZEa5cENE7ckY0cEWIJf_TkzhJ5NoW1b20CLabhjab3nuhMjuiDupLKz-QU2GxJ7wgPSZDzJSk5xBcDho/s400/ros2.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522552556724699474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXaGrTGcZ1YU7NxnFrGshQEqbE7SFF0yLCu8m8-W6WGxUq-RxCqu8mERNTfUn8VXOxKMtQ6C1n3NWRlykEi4EzigPhJKdyVznVg7pciTHXLdLUJ-JWVqpJnArIZvPi4cvwHex__cVe2dk/s400/p4.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 351px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522552561203004546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKGShxQlJC6m-JZl0KHF8M4ZvNVGsUZa3JUw8WmDTrLCRwzibjdlPz9MssMT8l2wYZdklIOiZNs4uC1zK4ytM8sXZWUL29-EV6ZkIq7WQn2wz4n2WhubWKXDKW5xmnMYiXMUlngLL5XQ8/s400/p6.jpg" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5522551315201976130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdT4YjHOwO4FSZMextrAEJ-rCXRKeBn9IiBtauI23teSAnofGP90hdSdL7J4H3u7OJvwb5KqT7moJSDTxrDJaAtGeI8kN2NjM-2Is2fYIS7Fl0sksTFp9yPYS8uROv_1rsfJpflL_GfOU/s400/ger.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What are the hues that are painting your <i>fall</i> this year?</div>

warm blush...

It's official, in my home the 'warm pink' is the fall colour:-) What are the hues that are painting your fall this year?

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Diwali Ki Shubhkamnayen: 2.11.2007

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128063261660694258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3npxUmhKSlvjKq547gxTrvtDDl0ROXp_jX-Q-GiKpQcvc4xKPFYBSRkfTE_BJQ1y7ulGqSisEGVDSFWexETFMmJb17Rwe-jckzXQTTm2YoxdNpCXI7fSdRsUivcD7QajiCulMwRHz5Kw/s400/diwal6.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />Diwali</a>- The Festival of Lights, of happiness, of celebration, of prayers, of beauty, of prosperity.<br /><br />It's a day where we pray to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi">Goddess Lakshmi</a> to fill our lives with health, wealth & happiness.<br /><br />What better way to decorate, bring out those silverware, line the 'Thali' ( plate/platter) with shiny one rupee coins, fill it up with colour powders of your choice, or get creative fill it up with coloured rice, pulses, shells or crystals!<br /><br />Offer your guests some chocolates, a great alternative to traditional Indian Sweets;-)<br />Add some fresh flowers & diyas and you have created a super, shiny, silvery & shiny Diwali arrangement!<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">(Images & ideas by Arch, feel free to get inspired and link to me but if you want to use my photographs for some other purpose please send me a mail.)</span></em>

Diwali Ki Shubhkamnayen: 2.11.2007

Diwali - The Festival of Lights, of happiness, of celebration, of prayers, of beauty, of prosperity. It's a day where we pray to Goddess...

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Fab(ulous) India...

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlTYVpu7vY-_DiiaWquXevAl3YTeuJzKQwFieZUzo9dOenvSxlbu1ThkH64jImGCFWuvpawA-pXspq5zP0o7a1-fxsY2i8GiGM9d2TekCNCS09JhFMrQVYqsmwRbZ2yk2vl9a-9ppQRjh/s1600-h/fabb.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117679515528802786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlTYVpu7vY-_DiiaWquXevAl3YTeuJzKQwFieZUzo9dOenvSxlbu1ThkH64jImGCFWuvpawA-pXspq5zP0o7a1-fxsY2i8GiGM9d2TekCNCS09JhFMrQVYqsmwRbZ2yk2vl9a-9ppQRjh/s400/fabb.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a>Most of us know about <a href="http://www.fabindia.com/">Fabindia</a> and their colourful & vibrant range of clothes and home decor accessories.<br /><br />Today let me take you inside one of their outlets in Chennai where the floor manager was kind enough to let me take some pictures inside.<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117662894005366994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizI6I3xx2Ni_rlSybDPIdO06Q7T-J_PPgiC3qP0nue9-70s9nkbiDkpIhibcI-hcbvxOclhVfWTapsl9ABFmYgHZr1pAuFP-KtmmFPWlTa9w_2fdvqHzIr46xFd3TrdxDZxUE9NifYYNPN/s400/fab1.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> The entrance is in traditional Chettinad style with wooden pillars and tiled terracotta roof.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuYbX-YCWdyIkRCvRMxFPpR8WKIfRZ4KGE8uxVlGldv5kdd1ZoglgKemlOpyA2XZbPKuGfPB16pHxqpEXgcUuZU_ZTeI5Xhq0ffqZTnItwBfcUBm-pqopO70WlxnwbbBN0_ngH1XbCtW_t/s1600-h/fab3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117662906890268898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuYbX-YCWdyIkRCvRMxFPpR8WKIfRZ4KGE8uxVlGldv5kdd1ZoglgKemlOpyA2XZbPKuGfPB16pHxqpEXgcUuZU_ZTeI5Xhq0ffqZTnItwBfcUBm-pqopO70WlxnwbbBN0_ngH1XbCtW_t/s400/fab3.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a> A rainbow of colours greet you when you enter. Colours, Patterns, Textures is all your mind can think. <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117662911185236210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8D1xZprfYEs9IG_uGc0L2iJEoCi-oXJyF0R0-taev78IC014R3qBUcIDAbRJxPgjQIoSNUYawbuFfmHNm08J22bTZTkt7ac-mTWOWGd-1MM8thHdGhjcZkuFx-6FWHk2pWfcmyVBrYa1Z/s400/fab6.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />Shades of orange bed linen displayed along the stairs leading to the next level. Beautiful Athangudi Tiles & Wood form the stairs.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSgyOliV3wIHQrr_Xfh1819XpEmMR6r0AZUmBm7rxq8BojiW4aq-Lwnt4XlWQEJXkrEOLlOHhBpj8oLHauHEhkBNtcQVXniUNK40fB7m1u5vRZYE9DNJL5X-vInsQ9z6-F3KhK5c5KbFA/s1600-h/fab8.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117662915480203522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSgyOliV3wIHQrr_Xfh1819XpEmMR6r0AZUmBm7rxq8BojiW4aq-Lwnt4XlWQEJXkrEOLlOHhBpj8oLHauHEhkBNtcQVXniUNK40fB7m1u5vRZYE9DNJL5X-vInsQ9z6-F3KhK5c5KbFA/s400/fab8.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a> I completely love this 'Trial Room' door on which this woven fabric is mounted, there is a tiny mirror on the side.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWViUYUP4hFmzqrqSGSZw2FYpfy32bnoglqey6E_8yoYre4DsNP9kJHw0x9IaGq8_2SEE1TKQRN7HVw36dSGt_uXJYIFLGgWgRpDEsE7flEXDhxLdoB07MlEN_R8I0pS8n5JyWaOvKQcf/s1600-h/fab9.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117662919775170834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVWViUYUP4hFmzqrqSGSZw2FYpfy32bnoglqey6E_8yoYre4DsNP9kJHw0x9IaGq8_2SEE1TKQRN7HVw36dSGt_uXJYIFLGgWgRpDEsE7flEXDhxLdoB07MlEN_R8I0pS8n5JyWaOvKQcf/s400/fab9.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></a>You'll find all the colours in the colour-wheel here. Now for some interesting finds from Fabindia... <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117667055828676914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitqsMC1ZYHLuLlpsVSSYvXbSiQbnc4yHBwVCZaxTgH7dqIgLX5ZMph-K5GciLZouFi1FpcORPwDVcLwA5ted-7dFwbCVIqYJxFok1s9rG5RVqnYZ6m8UBePDD0CD5xn_cNk_S9kr3_yt7W/s400/leafgreen.bmp" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><em>Embroidered Booti Organdy Curtain motif.</em><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117667481030439234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzKbUkYhX23fuitG5j05TqjOTrdRPAQA8A_QHAZ7IJDfiscvTlel8cLnuFdovJmnWxmf8l5xxVuy2GsJtajYuMlu5u_F_rYj7_ZV375iOmwWgG83t6vjogqilQib-oZzl1icIXY77KyGv/s400/cobalt+blue.bmp" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> <em>Three Flowers Organdy Curtain motif on light-weight sheer cotton organdy.</em><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117668627786707298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-7YjIcnnwg1Re-eU9UHvuLkSGknBFXFeyQrkeRsn_YcmCozH7Og_StPD80IpsubEXAFLn5MfQ8AdONtNtpNoZz8urQEKCp7dX-yWOx_6H4dKfUNhxRQsmnKZ3kmeMVizMOw8wlYMEBTc/s400/chanderi.bmp" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><em>Chanderi Prakash Curtain motifs.<br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117670745205584258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEWxJINlhiwBtVxtyEGuMR98MLvyPqK56f5puQUpM6g1Cduo11bRbLfesfDccoaC5ww203R7VS12T6PiLnj0bPKTc7pWAsAkqfN5KK0WqgeBKqkI-eGz3nw3MBziLuzxkN62hpbnVgufL/s400/kalamjharokha.bmp" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />Kalam Jharokha Bedspreads in beautiful vegetable dyes.</em><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117672342933418402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipuV6215fdzL7t47hQBa0hYHMRAiSIk8UJcOTcNRp2W_An5si-scHKvwFEytP4KiROUFwumhqnTPbsLQOkc43A_ke1zB7NMfFPIGWvTiGqqGy-JPKwM1gMZBwT-ffLNYf1jYLHFqE22_6b/s400/Applique+Organdy.bmp" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><em>Applique Organdy Phoolwari Bedspreads<br /></em><br /><div>Loads and loads of crafts from India used in Fabindia products. Explore <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.fabindia.com">Fabindia</a>. You can buy their amazing products online.<br /><br /><br /></div><div><em>( images from fabindia.com, interiors by Arch) </em></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Fab(ulous) India...

Most of us know about Fabindia and their colourful & vibrant range of clothes and home decor accessories. Today let me take you inside ...

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