IN THE PINK

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />SURVIVOR!</div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIMg0-3jOJJtBhLmPd_A_mcdQyEXCIgBlhLosnKI93-je1itfUDHpWztun22I4UKb5ulhZcY0Zf5Tv7hOjz3MnuMuCdrgzBzVvm6ICDoibry-ijMAuX85_ztgS0mUKMYtRgaP8H19PkXg/s1600/aishablogs2+bs+com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIMg0-3jOJJtBhLmPd_A_mcdQyEXCIgBlhLosnKI93-je1itfUDHpWztun22I4UKb5ulhZcY0Zf5Tv7hOjz3MnuMuCdrgzBzVvm6ICDoibry-ijMAuX85_ztgS0mUKMYtRgaP8H19PkXg/s640/aishablogs2+bs+com.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />In honor of my sister's recent successful completion of her breast cancer surgery, </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />chemotherapy and radiation...[the second of my sisters to undergo this ordeal...] </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> and for breast cancer survivors everywhere</div><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />today is PINK day!</div><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwU1h08Wn4LU1763E1JzdpHGhnoKhQbwHCooPKvafGtNohhSFWQRVT5eftaVRmbdJVRpvSLbPzS-LntjhYe1t4tDEIKofzRtJ-ACrXn68Y0v4ba8IQF-DZXsCvNyVX1SR6c0FrKXDqiCUH/s1600/Breast-Cancer-Awareness-1-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwU1h08Wn4LU1763E1JzdpHGhnoKhQbwHCooPKvafGtNohhSFWQRVT5eftaVRmbdJVRpvSLbPzS-LntjhYe1t4tDEIKofzRtJ-ACrXn68Y0v4ba8IQF-DZXsCvNyVX1SR6c0FrKXDqiCUH/s400/Breast-Cancer-Awareness-1-.jpg" width="328"></a></div><br /><br><br /></div><a href="http://yournestdesign.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-pink.html#more">Read more »</a>

IN THE PINK

SURVIVOR! In honor of my sister's recent successful completion of her breast cancer surgery, chemotherapy and radiation...[the second o...

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the Golden Shimmer of Diwali..

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The festival of lights approaching,the festive spirit was bound to catch up with me too.The idea is how different can it be from the last years.How many new lamps  can we buy this time,how do we decorate the home this time...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This time ,For Rich backgrounds we have tried colour and  embossed gold papers on the tables and the centre tables .. a rich festive feel,dont you all think.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLUdWFcK-gIbNjswoi3lCcfyEp44mHG9_TgCcReLUmfTe_WlqLo-9oMGJJmNau_v2DZrO6IzP6ekjvW7oSkPdfoXcv36pMvSfc-eqEHHijcqGoK_ZvrLgP9rM6n99-aoUb5lFAPOkz1LE/s1600/IMG_5513+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLUdWFcK-gIbNjswoi3lCcfyEp44mHG9_TgCcReLUmfTe_WlqLo-9oMGJJmNau_v2DZrO6IzP6ekjvW7oSkPdfoXcv36pMvSfc-eqEHHijcqGoK_ZvrLgP9rM6n99-aoUb5lFAPOkz1LE/s640/IMG_5513+copy.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all in pink an gold backdrop...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJu9UBUe1l0B2me7J8RqXDsI0btZ-GqDJRmRbyp56AHocEvsktHeRP06zvgsIbj0wimteI0SGzg19sFelgJ7M4Ya6DcQmZ7rS8IpKuxYwK5fHuXnm0WYGlLxU8YXYdwSGhTE8QFoq9gU8/s1600/IMG_5531+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJu9UBUe1l0B2me7J8RqXDsI0btZ-GqDJRmRbyp56AHocEvsktHeRP06zvgsIbj0wimteI0SGzg19sFelgJ7M4Ya6DcQmZ7rS8IpKuxYwK5fHuXnm0WYGlLxU8YXYdwSGhTE8QFoq9gU8/s640/IMG_5531+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">definitely many...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfRAVIHOzxxo8SWB6MnBFC4VgPd74hwu3XdPq_ar7SXJDWJx35qaI05gPzJOrlm_E5eD-7UAIU_QNy15uHjXOK8EKiS5Vff9ltbNycYclcjXe13McbbyHVLiVVoZHqruWdQyqrG6i4j48/s1600/IMG_5770+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfRAVIHOzxxo8SWB6MnBFC4VgPd74hwu3XdPq_ar7SXJDWJx35qaI05gPzJOrlm_E5eD-7UAIU_QNy15uHjXOK8EKiS5Vff9ltbNycYclcjXe13McbbyHVLiVVoZHqruWdQyqrG6i4j48/s640/IMG_5770+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a setting on the side table</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibooC5km5vMEDLrDlI3VEJ20B8UXXIzidfAvBNfEQLM3vKViORO2Zr9BKxX1vG5mAO0sQlFJoqISP32v0RVUKAN64ke4tJ0c3PHipCFiASMi2pGq-HDrHEN2qUZusbq0aF0wPbNI1AUnM/s1600/IMG_5807+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibooC5km5vMEDLrDlI3VEJ20B8UXXIzidfAvBNfEQLM3vKViORO2Zr9BKxX1vG5mAO0sQlFJoqISP32v0RVUKAN64ke4tJ0c3PHipCFiASMi2pGq-HDrHEN2qUZusbq0aF0wPbNI1AUnM/s640/IMG_5807+copy.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the shadows just took my mind away ...far away</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBK42Zo-tZyKls8AmljjMdO4gwdfgz2XhDqueJ4lmGRqyqShrJqNkEldrmw9-1bXvd0UrH9rmeyEI4Gk6xD62EzwTFu_bpNDlK3PYYvndd-WYvLaJTaLZ3Nk5VGO-ppJ3BULQWcD2cfA/s1600/IMG_5248+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBK42Zo-tZyKls8AmljjMdO4gwdfgz2XhDqueJ4lmGRqyqShrJqNkEldrmw9-1bXvd0UrH9rmeyEI4Gk6xD62EzwTFu_bpNDlK3PYYvndd-WYvLaJTaLZ3Nk5VGO-ppJ3BULQWcD2cfA/s640/IMG_5248+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">place a bowl of gold polished balls on the centre table,surely give a festive look</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00ICeOY2i_-O67dsrrMdBtku8dpe65D-iaUZwOcrrS8A0OzKkBwnHncFYhlpdKTyRmonyasYZ7r1xEVIR8kD4fsCwUZ-lmdgKEclTX4fw8bw0FN2hlAJdAflPdcp0HZRlV1zv_Cu2lVg/s1600/IMG_5251+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj00ICeOY2i_-O67dsrrMdBtku8dpe65D-iaUZwOcrrS8A0OzKkBwnHncFYhlpdKTyRmonyasYZ7r1xEVIR8kD4fsCwUZ-lmdgKEclTX4fw8bw0FN2hlAJdAflPdcp0HZRlV1zv_Cu2lVg/s640/IMG_5251+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDzRhk4awm6Un6LKtIo7Ftr-QgnYlas4y09unz44OpwrtEq6KE093FBCaMVaev4RXHAtIPKcyKN5oRUJkPc242yoOzJ0FxJgndUUexwyAnLL7q2drDs0HLvO-F5s77fiomldUDhe2Tss/s1600/IMG_5264+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDzRhk4awm6Un6LKtIo7Ftr-QgnYlas4y09unz44OpwrtEq6KE093FBCaMVaev4RXHAtIPKcyKN5oRUJkPc242yoOzJ0FxJgndUUexwyAnLL7q2drDs0HLvO-F5s77fiomldUDhe2Tss/s640/IMG_5264+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">place roses in small tea glasses and  gold balls in between an arrangement on a thali</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> All Images and Ideas copyright Lakshmi Arvind..please ask for permission before you use these images...</span><br /><br /><br /></div>

the Golden Shimmer of Diwali..

The festival of lights approaching,the festive spirit was bound to catch up with me too.The idea is how different can it be from the last ye...

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Simple Decoration..

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Decorations at home can be simple too .Hang flowers upside down can help brighten the area of your home.A change of decoration can be a nice decorative element.<span style="background-color: white;">. Hanging flowers will create a colorful overhead canopy in a room or just create a special touch to brighten the festival feel.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Marigolds can be inserted into the midribs of the coconut fronds.Select small flower and medium in length for the midrib.The flowers beautifully bend their heads and sit perfectly on them.Select wine bottles and you can insert them into these as shown..As the flowers are slightly heavy they can be kept at intervals in the midrib and do not easily dislocate from their position.</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2OEt1yHJ9mj0Sw2rpfdxdm29OCWDpjKsPyxlISqg8sfKawIxWtOTqdEBW4E3eCs0nMVwvd28MESbgWzw5EJhCepukmhztkbASjpnZ7XDIuKSC19qSIw8censIRX0bVHvcBCGgh5s_ls/s1600/october+2012+175+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2OEt1yHJ9mj0Sw2rpfdxdm29OCWDpjKsPyxlISqg8sfKawIxWtOTqdEBW4E3eCs0nMVwvd28MESbgWzw5EJhCepukmhztkbASjpnZ7XDIuKSC19qSIw8censIRX0bVHvcBCGgh5s_ls/s640/october+2012+175+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1lgPcygbum6g1clYVwwDERhsNpFT0lqeEyt60ChINLRT2hDFIXv5Ue-MoLK3YfSJCI2yxkR7xVKcAd1lRmaC49_73iIXk2autdMRr2Dx4mCzjhdi6lMozVKEyq1CDgEkHaLT30jMUaI/s1600/october+2012+213+-+Copy+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1lgPcygbum6g1clYVwwDERhsNpFT0lqeEyt60ChINLRT2hDFIXv5Ue-MoLK3YfSJCI2yxkR7xVKcAd1lRmaC49_73iIXk2autdMRr2Dx4mCzjhdi6lMozVKEyq1CDgEkHaLT30jMUaI/s640/october+2012+213+-+Copy+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHisBRCbg_KUcSukId35Ks76nD-ASbfPGT6aMfk-91mG6u9G9EzUEepAKDdQVgBUBM2lI9cX3jOuMLA4cJD3o6mUOp-QwMjid3a5U3qmkZ0bAgjRdpvy4REG-phC47fmtuh_c7FIEKTwI/s1600/october+2012+184+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHisBRCbg_KUcSukId35Ks76nD-ASbfPGT6aMfk-91mG6u9G9EzUEepAKDdQVgBUBM2lI9cX3jOuMLA4cJD3o6mUOp-QwMjid3a5U3qmkZ0bAgjRdpvy4REG-phC47fmtuh_c7FIEKTwI/s640/october+2012+184+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All pictures copyright:Lakshmi Arvind</div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>

Simple Decoration..

Decorations at home can be simple too .Hang flowers upside down can help brighten the area of your home.A change of decoration can be a nice...

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