Merry Christmas and Happy NewYear 2013 !

Hello everyone!

the world did not end on 21st December 2012 as some speculated it would, in fact we are now entering a New Age. For a while now I've been reading about how the Piscean age has ended and we are now entering the Acquarian age where we will not look outside for a saviour but within. This thought resonates with me as I often find myself stumbling on books that just seem right for me at the time, or I see people prefering a path that helps them to find their own answers to their life's lessons. 

Either way, by Decemeber 31st we will be at the end of a solar cycle and it is an excellent opportunity to make a fresh start and what better way to end the year feeling all warm and happy than Christmas :-) 

I've put up a little tree at home, hung tinsel and decorations, strung some fairy lights on our balcony and have sent out beautiful christmas cards to close friends and family. Somehow, in this age of hurriedly dashed off emails and sms's I quite enjoy taking the time to write to a friend and maybe doodle a little around the writing, take the trouble to get the postal address and send them a card, and what a joy it is to send these paper-cut christmas tree cards which I received from a friend in London. It is even a bigger delight when my friend's tell me that they received them :-) I feel like the postal santa! 

I wish everyone I know in the blog-world, my friends and family a wonderful cheer-filled Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring perfect Health, Prosperity and Abundance to all! A chance to make new beginnings and to quote Louise Hay,

  ..to make the rest of our lives the best of our lives

love + light always 

That Christmas-y feeling

I was at Chimanlal recently to pick up some handmade papers. While I waited for them to get the roll of papers I'd ordered, I happily looked around at the charming items on display when this delightful little angel caught my eye, (how close we are to Christmas!) Immediately I bought a few :)

Flat at first, the angel opens up like this to reveal an adorable silhouette :)

so minimal yet so delightful.......I plan to get some more to give my friends, to send positive angel energy :)

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Christmas lights on Hill Road.

This Sunday I was in Bandra to assist my teacher at a free Dance Yoga Workshop she gave as part of Celebrate Bandra Festival. The venue for the workshop was a quiet tucked away garden called Malla Park, off Pali Malla Road. For me, more than the workshop was the joy at discovering this little garden (even though it is called park!). To get there you have to take the lane just besides The Bagel Shop, on Pali Malla road which is near Rizvi College and enroute St.Anne's church. After the workshop ended I wound my way down from Pali market to Hill road and there I came across these colourful Christmas decorations :)

Honestly, my pictures don't do full justice. I remember it was much brighter.

Christmas is never as Christmas-y in any another part of the city, the little cribs on display, the winding narrow lanes, the old homes, the bakeries, the goan accent (what men!) I miss that... but what is there to miss, really! I'll just swing by and breathe in the ambience, take a stroll down Chimbai/memory lane :)

may everyone have a very warm Christmas...

love + light!

Thinking of Christmas.