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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate . Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star with two inverted triangles.   ...

Silver mangala harathi plate preparation

 Varmahalskmi Habba / Navratri decoration -  harathi preparation Friday Puja procedure

I use a small silver plate as shown in the image for preparation of aarti plate as it is also called , for Friday Puja

and also for other festivals like Varamahalakshmi Pooja , every day during Navaratri , Sravan Sukravar Pooja 

Add some kukkum in a small plate and mix it with water.  Apply sandalwood paste and kumkum on four sides of diyas 

Place flower shaped cotton wicks or long wicks depending upon the type of lamps we use.  Add cow's ghee to the wicks,

light the lamps and perform aarthi  or harathi .  We can sing suitable songs in a language of our choice or mother tongue 


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