Tomorrow we'll be celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights. To me, this festival represents joy, merriment and lights but most of all it represents the victory of good over evil by taking its sources in the story of Rama and Ravana found in the Ramayana.
However Divali was more fun to me when I was a kid. I remember the huge prayer that was held in the middle of our family property in Goodlands on the eve of the festivals. My grandfathers, who were all pandits, used to tell my cousins and me stories taken from the holy scriptures. There were so much children living close by that it was easy to have fun, especially on the day of the festival. We used to go together to distribute cakes among relatives and neighbours.
Ever since we came to live here, things have somewhat changed. Anyway, we still send cakes to our relatives but the fun is not as great as it was before. Part of me wishes to be a child again. Ah well! To fill this lacuna, I've made some round lanterns today. Nothing too complicated. I've just rolled and stuck together the two sides of some somewhat wide bristol bands. I've cut some shapes on the bristol bands and stuck crepe paper at the back.
Tomorrow we'll be making a "rangoli" with flowers
and presenting the cakes.
Pictures will be posted tomorrow.Take care dudettes and dudes and my festive aliens! Have fun! :D
happy divali to you mooo! muah!
ReplyDeletehopping by to wish you a veri happi divali! have lotsa fun and eat lotsa cakes. mium!
ReplyDeletethanks gals! happi divali to you too! :D
ReplyDeletehappi divali!
ReplyDeletei love rasgoola and barfi! ki zot gato prefere zot?
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moi barfee! avk nankatai, sa gato kumen biscuit la! lol
ReplyDeletemiam!
ReplyDeleteI've heard about Diwali, never actually witnessed a celebration in honour of it, but I wish you loads of fun and loads of firey works.
ReplyDeleteu got some kind of boon [cumsa em dir sa?] to do those artistic stuff :p And very original en plus. Wonderful :)
ReplyDeleteAnd happy divali to u ;)
morph, c miam vrai em :P
ReplyDeletemanico, i hope someday you get the opportunity to witness that.
roushdat, thanks! :D mo conten perdi letemps fr bricolage! lol
Happy Diwali to you Morinn. Enjoy yourself greatly.
ReplyDeleteHappy Divali
ReplyDeleteGreat.. :P I love those lanterns.. Keep one for me. :u
ReplyDeletethanks people!
ReplyDeletejev 1 zour to pou gagne comier lantern to ler! :P
M lE gaaaatooooooooo....
ReplyDeleteHappy divaliiii!
happy divali, btw, i am curious how your lanterns doesn't heat up and get burnt?
ReplyDeleteMoi i gave up lantern idea a while back, and decided to hide my lamps in places where there won't be much winds
happy divali toi si BbZush! :D
ReplyDeleteSelven, mo croir akoz mo servi papier crepe sa, li pli resistant ki mousseline ek mo fr li assez gran pou bne la lampe la. okene pane briler last nite! :D
Cool photos, thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteI like the photos, they're really interesting.
ReplyDeletehappi divali mo. mo ti oqp yer! :P
ReplyDeleteanonymous, thanks. I would have appreciated a name on the comment. ;)
ReplyDeletekelly, thanks for dropping by.
avesh, better late than never! ;)
happy divali to you morinn and keep your creativity, you are cool^^ i like the pic with that bird of paradise there^^
ReplyDeletethanks for the compliment lord manila! :D it means a lot
ReplyDeleteEven though I don't celebrate divali,I've always like this festival.I duno but there's something abt the atmosphere that is so appealing =P
ReplyDeletehope u had a great divali!
happi divali morinn.jespere ke tu t bien amuse!
ReplyDeleteHow's the little drunk :D You healed yet? -shouts this really loud at his computer screen-
ReplyDeleteIt is the very first time heard of rangoli made of flowers. Original. :D
ReplyDeleteHi Morrin,
ReplyDeleteHappy Diwali! Barfi and mithai are the best part of diwali for me. We make a rangoli with colours!
We also send greetings and gifts to our realtives here, in North India!
The great part is bursting crackers. Don't you do that? it's much fun:)
Have a happy and safe Diwali!
thanks people for dropping by and for your wishes! :D
ReplyDeletemeghna, we used to burst firecrackers some years ago. but recently, since we got many dogs, they are afraid of these and we don't want to scare them. so we no longer do this. but it sure is fun to watch the firecrackers of other people!