Friday 8 November 2013

7QT Friday: Happy Home Things

Did I tell you I recently moved out of my parents' place and into an apartment with my roommate and coworker, R?

Well, here are a few of the things around my home that make me happy...

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Now, am I talking about my quirky friend, M, or my awesome camel embroidery wall hanging from Kolkata? Is she the foreground, or is it the background? You guess.

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Pink roses on our dining table! I was walking along the street yesterday, when I heard someone call out my name. My friend S was in a rickshaw, but she stopped long enough to hand me a bunch of pink roses! If only I had just asked St. Thérèse for a sign...

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Our Lady of Guadalupe appears on a wall in Pune, India! Alert the press!

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Beautiful, soft and warm quilt-bedspreads donated by my two thoughtful sisters, L and J. Even more exciting, because the India winter is creeping up on us- there's a chill in the air, and I've already pulled out my sweaters. (Fine, cold in my city is summer in other places, laugh all you want, but a minimum of 17 degrees Celsius gets us all excited.)

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Bathroom rug woven by friends in the Philippines. (This is beginning to feel like a home shopping catalogue or something.)

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Go.. Jen's...

8 comments:

  1. Hi Sue, I saw your photo on Jen's blog, and enjoyed reading! My husband and I and our daughter are travelling to Kolkata, Delhi, and Bangalore later this year to adopt our next child. :o) I read all the blogs on your sidebar too. Just wanted to say hello!

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    1. That's exciting... if you ever land up in Pune, let me know. :-) And thanks for adding me on your blogroll.

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  2. I like your style, Sue! :) I too am a not very Indian girl, even though I am only half Indian, I am sad to not have better contact with my roots. I have lots of family in the Mumbai & Hyderabad areas. I hope one day to bring our children for an immersion experience like I had when I was a child. I love visiting your blog, it feels nice and cozy to me! :)

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    1. Thank you for commenting! I always love hearing that there are other people with similar backgrounds to me (because that's so unusual here).

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  3. 17 C sounds like the morning low in the early summer for us before we start having temps around 38C during the day! our morning temps right now are around 10C.

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    1. Well, it's 9 C now... does that count for anything? :-) We also don't have heating in our homes. I need long woolly socks!

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  4. Awesome life u have

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    1. This is true. (Though I don't show the un-awesome parts :-))

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