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Today is reasonless, just-for-kicks, eyecandy day. And the theme is Lotus. Here is a collection of all things lotus, from fabric to jewellery, to vessels to lamps.

From Blue tree art gallery

Prints on fabric

From the Amy Butler lotus design collection

From Viya home

From Viya Home

From Flickr

From Dhoop

From Dhoop

And these lamps will be show stealers in any space

Do click on the image to see a larger version and check his beautiful collection here.

And this is her book that you can actually buy & own :)

"...Life makes sense when we are centered in our hearts and we let go of resisting the way our unique journey needs to unfold in its own beautifully UNRULY way." Oh man, this woman gives me hope.

I like :)

This is where you can buy the book. You can read her blog here, and check her shop here.

History, is priceless. It gives us people whom we have no way of knowing, its shows us their lives as examples, as inspiration. And if you need comfort from people who have been there done it, it gives you that in all glorious detail. One of histories many gifts is William Morris, who is very close to my heart as he was an artist with many definitions and therefore bound by none. His art went where his passions went and he was an architect, furniture & textile designer, poet and socialist. I have often wondered, envied and looked wistfully at people who found that one passion and all their life went into honing that into perfection. But William Morris is someone who lived a life where there was space and scope to go and develop all the different things he wanted to do. He just did what he wanted :)

"For several years after his marriage Morris was absorbed in two intimately connected occupations: 1, the building and decoration of a house for himself and Jane, and 2, the foundation of a firm of decorators who were also artists, with the view of reinstating decoration, down to its smallest details, as one of the fine arts.

Morris was producing repeating patterns for wallpaper as early as 1862, and some six years later he designed his first pattern specifically for fabric printing. As in so many other areas that interested him, Morris chose to work with the ancient technique of hand woodblock printing in preference to the roller printing which had almost completely replaced it for commercial uses. By 1883, Morris wrote "Almost all the designs we use for surface decoration, wallpapers, textiles, and the like, I design myself. I have had to learn the theory and to some extent the practice of weaving, dyeing and textile printing: all of which I must admit has given me and still gives me a great deal of enjoyment."

The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayam, text and decoration by Morris with illustrations by Burne-Jones, 1870s

I've been Tagged again. And this time by talented fingers Embellisher, by the hugely interesting Krista of Luminous Life & by artistic Megha of Arth and Nitya. (If u are interested in reading my previous tagged entry click here) There have been a couple of others who've tagged me & my apologies to them for not linking them here. The deal is this- I need to put down here 7 random things about myself & tag fellow bloggers and keep all concerned in the loop. So here's my list :)

I'm constantly thinking of travelling. I'm happiest planning a trip, a weekend, a month, a year a lifetime full of travel. Take me to a new place. Make me happy.

I am Rajasthan obsessed. I will be going there soon for a 2nd time. I just know I will keep travelling to Rajasthan till I die and never have enough :) :)

From fill circle lines flickr stream

Net junkie, that is me. I can spend 24x7 in front of the comp. But I've consciously been taking it easy & therefore not blogging or flickering as often as I used to :)

I used to be such a digital art person & that is changing. Whatever had to happen had to happen on the computer, but these days I find myself very drawn to 3d art, where I need to put things together, stick them, I find myself obsessed with texture & material and juxtaposition. Scrapbooking inspires me hugely & I'm forever drooling over Ali Edwards & Anahata Katkin. I have already done one piece of 3d art for my friend which i will feature soon here, so look out for it :)

I am just LOVING Ali Edwards' work

Anahata Katkin is blowing my mind!!!

And as I write this post, the hottest news is that I'm the owner of a brand new Canon DSLR :) My flickr won't languish anymore & oh maann how i missed having a camera. Its an update from one tagged to another, cause in my last tagged post I had actually asked you guys to help me figure whether I should pick a DSLR or just go for a high end point and shoot. You'll be seeing a lot of my photographs in the forthcoming posts & that's a promise.
I now tag fellow bloggers whom I've grown to like and whose work I admire: Felicia of 'near and far', Joanna D of LotusHaus, Prashant Bhardwaj of Chai ki Dukaan and Jessica Gonacha of 'treasuring'.