Had time to wander around and take stock yesterday....our place is coming along.
This is the entrance door- welcome. Notice the matki or water jar, keeps the water wonderfully cool and it is always ready for visitors arriving.
I look at the walls and wonder how we should paint them...I really like the cement and all the mottled colours...Praveen doesn't seem to be in a rush to paint so I won't say anything.
The entrance porch
just love this space....we often spread a mat and eat out here in the evenings in hot weather
Mudcloth from Africa, stitched quilt made by our ladies, and handloom woollen shawl from Rajasthan
Stitching from our Ladies and 2 quilts of re-cycled textiles from Vietnam.
Sweet peas from our garden
Kerunda, a kind of Indian equivalent of cranberries. Very tasty, there were trees full of them last week and I meant to go and pick but did not get around to it.....when we got there yesterday the birds had had a feast and this was all that was left.....
Oh well a very tasty pickle it will be now...was intending some jam as well but it will have to wait until next year.
This week has power on in the mornings [well one hopes] and so far today not even a flicker....makes life a little more relaxed!
off to iron some silk to get ready for machine stitching before going to my Stitching Ladies....got a whole heap of bag squares assembled as well to go to the tailors to make my tote bags- zooming along!!
This is the entrance door- welcome. Notice the matki or water jar, keeps the water wonderfully cool and it is always ready for visitors arriving.
I look at the walls and wonder how we should paint them...I really like the cement and all the mottled colours...Praveen doesn't seem to be in a rush to paint so I won't say anything.
The entrance porch
just love this space....we often spread a mat and eat out here in the evenings in hot weather
Just inside the entrance door
I have taken to stacking some of our quilts around the place- we don't need them on our bed...but this way we get to see them....I had said to Praveen this is waht I was doing- reminders to us of the happy times we had travelling to find them and these stacked on the end of our lounge I roused on Praveen when he put he feet on them. so the new deal is they are out when we have visitors otherwise on a chair so he can slob properly.Mudcloth from Africa, stitched quilt made by our ladies, and handloom woollen shawl from Rajasthan
Stitching from our Ladies and 2 quilts of re-cycled textiles from Vietnam.
Sweet peas from our garden
Kerunda, a kind of Indian equivalent of cranberries. Very tasty, there were trees full of them last week and I meant to go and pick but did not get around to it.....when we got there yesterday the birds had had a feast and this was all that was left.....
Oh well a very tasty pickle it will be now...was intending some jam as well but it will have to wait until next year.
This week has power on in the mornings [well one hopes] and so far today not even a flicker....makes life a little more relaxed!
off to iron some silk to get ready for machine stitching before going to my Stitching Ladies....got a whole heap of bag squares assembled as well to go to the tailors to make my tote bags- zooming along!!
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