Beads and stones

On my previous stroll at Commercial street, there were some beautiful pieces of jewellery sets that were a kinda eyecatching for the kind of dominating style presence they would make if paired appropriately.
What do you say?

Birthday card for Hubby!

I have always been posed with this question - "What did you gift?". Mostly post my Anniversary and my hubby's birthday. Gifting men is seriously a tuff task. This field has a severe scarcity of variety. I have already gifted all that I could -
- Tees
- Tie
- Wallets
- Pen, bouquet, cards
- Cufflings
- umpteen number of clothes
- Movie of both our photos
- Car accessories
- Other random giftslike wall hangings and showpieces

Phew! This year I had fallen short of options. Seriously! But still, this year's gift was again a unique one!
Have I built enough inquisitiveness in you, that you have alreasdy grown impatient? I love that expression on your face. *chuckle*

PS:- For all those who have strained their inquisitive eyes in reading, my husband has been a arid addict of bikes and cars. So... all that you read!

You'd be more surprised to know this Herculan size card was created in an hour.
I wouldn't like to grab all the showers of appreciations you guy will endow upon me alone. I took sufficient help from the humble soul, 'Gowthami- my sister'.

Bows from both of us! I love flattery. Please be generous ;)!
Keep reading....
Till next time Cyao!

Wallet Collection

Wallets have been my fetish eversince I learnt to spell ' S H O P P I N G'. I have always been addicted to wallets from early collage days. Today, I have a huge colleciton of wallets but only a few I use and wish to display in here. Few have been my online purchases too. Gifted ladies around me mostly with these wallet, mostly leather mainly for usability and ruggedness.

Time to stop yapping and showing you my worthy collection. Enjoy!

 
Some online site, I purchased htis. Sorry guys can't recall. I haven't used it much. It is a spacious wallet with comfortable mobile pouch too.

Fossil wallet, 1549 INR. Genuine leather. Fell for the color.

Purchased in Landmark for a mere 100 bugs. 1000 rupee note cant be kept without folding.

My regularly used wallet. Belongs to Baggit, paid around 750 approx. Sadly can't accomodate my phone.

Quite an old purchase. Made of silk. Purchased for a mere 100bugs in some exibhition.

Purchased from Staples just for the polka dots attraction, nothing else.

Friends day out!

Today morning at 9'o clock , I receive a call. It is my girl gang! A spontaneous meet up plan! I said OK for 1'o clock meet at my adda - CKP. And there I was, an hour late, and to my surprise there was the usual late latif Vara yet to arrive. That relieved me of getting blamed for late coming. I was disappointed as there were n many stalls. Weather was gloom and started raining. Had nothing to do but stay indoors and go around the Saree exhibition. Personally I am not a Saree person. Both my friends got busy at each saree stall, touching, sniffing, enquiring and discussing. I meanwhile was busy with a  few calls.

Unexpectedly I ended up buying the Kolapuri leather bag and a cotton silk stole and my friend a Saree. Perfect get out except that the weather did not permit us to wander around. It was noon and time to disperse when Vara took us to a famous chat stop in Loafer's street (That is how it is lovingly called by Carmalites , got this important information from Ex-Carmalite Vara). Unusual Mexican chat, which looked like pizza had been churned and mixed with some boiled Rajma beans. I made a safe choice with a chocolate Truffle pastry!

Now enjoy the pictures!

Mexican pizza chat

Fruit injection addiction!

The weather has got me smitten to hot fruit injections. For people who are wondering what these injection are all about, they are just flavoured fruit bags, alike tea bags. You just have to dip the sachet in hot water with sugar, or you can go a  step ahead and add citric powder to add the tinge of bitterness.
Yesterday I caught up with quite many movies. Enjoyed every bit of Datenight! Exciting movie indeed. Post which I watched Knight and day, my love for Cameron Diaz got more stronger. And need I mention about Tom cruize? K&D is one movie , I can watch any number of times without fast forwarding.

I swap between Typhoon and Twinings. Twinings has variant flavours - Mango, Cinnanom, Blackberry, Green tea, Pineapple, Canberry etc,. I have tried all these. Mostly the flavors are a combination in the same sachet. They are really yummy and after drinking this hot syrup, I feel very relaxed.
On the box, it is written - Best time to have before going to bed, I don't think this induces sleep. I used to have it during coffee breaks in office.
Enjoying weekend with fruit syrup and a line of movies. :)

Easy Kichen

            I know how it feels to come home after work especially in the chill weather as it is here in Bangalore.

Every night, from past 2 weeks it has become a routine wearing socks, cotton plugs inside ears, and pulling over the thick blanket. Every morning I wish a mandatory coffee-greet! And evenings by hot soups. But how often do we feel like walking over to kitchen and make things that satiate our wishes?

Most of the times, we end making the famous Maggi. If you got more than 2 minutes then yes, chopping few carrots, beans, capcicum and spring onions. But with the same 2 minutes at hand , I make my Maggi look more colorful and tasty too with just 2 lame steps.

Isn't is colourful enough even without the veggies!

The yummy Maggi, now more flavorized!

The flavors, ideally used on Pizzas. Experimenting in kitchen is never a sin!

Woman pride !

Hey girls,

              Its Tuesday, still very close to Monday ;). I can still see those glum faces sitting in office out there reading this post.
Today, for a change I thought let's talk serious! (Apologies for jumping into the serious mode so quickly). Knowhat? we, women are not just skilled in Shopping, multitasking, distinguishing colors, cooking and gossiping. We do a lot more than this. But how often do we introspect about the same. Without us introspecting, we can't expect the world to enter auto-mode and acknowledge. All with me? I assume an 'yes'! and carry forward. (No case, I'm gonna stop venting today and get back to lifestyle post ;))

(Credits - A picture from google)

The world sees us as wives, mothers, teacher, daughters, so on and so forth. Why say world! Please acknowledge the fact that when you hear the word 'Woman', aren't these the same words you too get in your mind?

Why not these visuals too, which we carry very naturally and instinctively - Strength (both mental and physical,else how can we bear the delivery pain with such happiness), Good managers (We can balance both work and life), Entrepreneurs(I bet we know a plenty out there including actors,political leaders, designers, singers etc,.), Patience (Else I tell you, most marriages would have fallen apart at lightening speed), Matured leaders (Weigh both rights and wrongs), good observers, Memory boxes having billion Zeta bytes of memory space that we remember all dates, colors, clothes and the specific, intricate details of clothing worn on particular dates and events, multi-taskers (Keep an eye on the boiling milk on stove, while run to hall and watch the soap, pick up call from Mommy and talk responding correctly to the questions asked, back to kitchen, to switch off the boiling milk, come back and continue watching the soap without having lost the track of the story and yes you are still on the call with mom).

Inspite of knowing all this, how much do we talk on such values when we make our girl meets and kitty parties? we mostly end up gossiping. (I'm asking this question to self too, my alter ego plays an audience  after the post and she'll read Empoweress's post each time, only thing is she doesn't write comments to avoid rumours of having a bipolar personality)

Woman1 - Hey nice color, Elle18? I saw the same in Oriflame!

Woman2 - No streetwear, I got all the shades in this color. I love these Mauve and cappuccino shades, you know?

Woman3 - Hey yesterday I purchased the same  shade lippy! Check this.(Open purse, dig deep through the huge cluster of movie,parking,food bills and tickets and other cosmetics) and get the lippy out.

Woman1- Yes This month's Vogue edition has Sonam Kapoor wearing the same shade. I think it is MAC hug me shade.

Woman2 - I hate that b*****! Deepika has better statistics and face than her.

Woman1 - I don't agree. She is a fashionista. I love all the outfits and experiments she tries and carries successfully in Cannes and other festivals....

(I can prolong this conversation which may eventually create Sex and city - 4 ).

 Next time we meet, lets share conversations relating to lives more practically and rationally than crib  about everything and end with the easy famous slogan "Men will be men"!.

Let me end the post saying, Women will be women, how would meet ups satiate without gossips and cosmetic discussions? (laughs!) (Gimme a hi5!)

But let's rejoice our birth, strengths and womanhood  and thank god each day for being born a WOMAN!