Some Rangoli Printables

Here are some rangoli templates for you to print and use. Hope you find them useful. Do share your rangoli photos if you use any of these.

More printable rangoli outline patterns in Ms Word: http://www.weddingannouncer.com/downloads/31391/rangoli-pattern.doc

Rangoli design collection

Here are some more of my rangoli design collection. Do let me know if you find them useful and also feel free to share your rangoli designs. I will publish them here with your name :-)

For more Rangoli ideas visit: http://mykolam.blogspot.com/

Diwali fever......

The most awaited festival of India......Diwali...... is here to come.....and like everyone I'm pretty excited about it. It's going to be my 2nd after marriage. My favourite activity on Diwali is to decorate the house with flowers and rangoli........ Here are some pics of rangolis that I have collected from various sources. Hope they inspire you and also help you to create patterns easily.

These are rangolis made with flowers by one of my friend Dhanisha.

Rangoli pics from my office

Some rangolis made by me on previous Diwalis......

Vacation 2009......

Just came back from a long vacation to Northern part of India........ we went to Delhi, Chandigarh, Manali, Rohtang Pass, Jalandhar and Amritsar. I celebrated my 2nd Karvachauth at Chandigarh this time..... Some pics from the festival.........

This is the sargi......which we had early in the morning before sunrise.

 Thali prepared for evening puja

I upcycled an old box to keep some goodies in it and gifted it to my mom-in-law.

Dry Flower Arrangement

Me and my mom were too much into flower arranging and other craft stuff while I was in my teens. We had made these dry flower arrangements for a competition. The second one that you see here got me the 1st prize.

Paper Flowers

I made these paper carnations with tissue paper and the red flowers with duplex paper.

Pots

I made this deisgn on the pot by cutting out flowers from an old card. These individual flowers were then pasted onto the pot with some cotton stuffed at the back for a 3-D look. Paint some leaves and add some glitter to get this look.

Designer Pots

This is also one of my very old creations. I had made the flowers and leaves with a dough made of Plaster of Paris and fevicol.

Basket for Children

I had made these around 8-10 years back. Recently found this photo in one of my albums and thoughht I'd put it up here.

Kusudama Art

Kusudama is a Japanese paper model that is usually created by sewing multiple identical pyramidal units (usually stylized flowers folded from square paper) together through their points to form a spherical shape. Here I have made an ornament out of it instead of the usual spherical ball.