little home sunshine goa

How is it? Maple loved it!   Finally! a dress was stitched for Maple and two more are in process. I am learning stitch the neck patterns (Problem area!), otherwise things are moving pretty well on that front. Apart from that, I washed the curtains of our living room and they look so fresh and clean. Other things done this weekend were: making cinnamon roll which was really good organized my cupboard and had an unexpected dinner with my parents and sister Hope all of you had a nice weekend too...

 15th August has always been an exciting day for us. Flag hoisting, mass and lot of great food & fun. We celebrated our 66th Independence day on 15 August! A salute to all our soldiers who guard our boarders and keep us safe. Jai Hind! Also celebrated the feast in our neighboring parish at Vasco. What a day we had!

We had a long weekend and had a visit to a fort turned into a museum near our house. The fort is so lovely and paintings amazing! Above all was the way Maple cared for Sparkle. She doesn't miss a chance to carry him. And he is all happy with her. more pics of the fort later!

{Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ I am so happy to hear that we would be having an addition of another pretty, cute and graceful daughter-mother pair adding to the list at Like Mother, Like Daughter, God bless them abundantly! Getting started with capturing clicks of contentment, lets begin... {Pretty} In search of some flower from my garden, I found anthurium, there are plenty of them now in the garden now. { Happy} This candle stand has been at my husband's home, even before we were married. However, when I 'met' this one it was wrapped in white crepe paper (which was all dusty and torn). so I ripped off the entire mess, and left the poor stand without a dress for long time (I had not come across all these creative blogs then). Now that I have, I tried to dress the candle stand again! This is what it looks like now. :) The cream beads lace is from Maple's 1st birthday dress. I wrapped a m

Time is an element that can be found if one really needs it. I have realized that in the past weeks; even though I had been working at office for weekend, we managed to not only buy a gift for a close family friend, but also visit the newly weds a day before the reception, study for an examination scheduled, attend a wedding reception etc etc...  Oh yes it was exhausting with two kids & equally busy husband, daily chores at home and list goes on. God always gives us strength, (or does he do some work for us! ;) ) So now I have decided to list out target/goals/milestones whatever for this month: Creativity is some thing that naturally gives a sense of satisfaction and peace to an individual, so every week or at-least every month must have some thing from this section, may be in form of baking, cooking, sewing, crafting, or may be simply assembling few fresh flowers from the garden into a vase. Faith and learning gives us the strength and courage to go through any di

{Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Oh, how I missed linking up with this awesome blog for past two weeks. Life was pretty busy last weeks. But now that August is here and I would be taking some days off from my office work to be with my babies (I am so happily looking forward for the days to arrive) and hoping to slow down a bit and give more time towards sewing, gardening, crafting etc. {Pretty} While in search of some old cloth for my sewing experiment, I dug out this dress from wardrobe, isn't the embroidery pretty? Now once I am good at sewing, I am planning to stitch a dress from it for Maple { Happy} I am so happy about my in-laws visiting us the coming week and that finally today is Friday- weekends finally here!   {Funny}  This is what Sparkle did when asked if he would miss my sister, once she is away studying in a far of college  She would be more than happy to pack him along.  

 {Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ This week was really good. I got so many gifts (one good thing about turning 30). {Pretty} I received these pretty flowers on my birthday from office staff. It looks good on the laptop bag. Oh and so many of digital gifts in form of card, ppt, pictures etc. It was very sweet of all my colleagues.   { Happy }  And as though planning for a long time, my hubby (you are a darling) gifted me this cutie. Yes, I am yet to learn to use it fully, but have already begin with some stitching here and there .      { Funny } This is how my beautiful girl smiles, when asked for a click  else when caught unknowingly her smile is as beautiful as this one      { Real }  I treated myself to a pedicure and had one of my favorite shades painted on my toes.Isn't it pretty?   Thank you all of you for visiting my Sunshine Home. go on and catc

Its my Birthday today! I know, that I have been celebrating many , but i leaving my twenties here today. I just can not believe that time has been slipping so fast, or will I wake up from my dream some day! Pedicure done at home and painted my favorite shade! Oh what ever trick this time is doing, I have enjoyed my day so much, thanks to all beautiful and kind people I am surrounded with.

Linking up with Five Favorites . Oh these days I just have no time, so very quick random favorites of mine. 1. Favorite dish Squids batter fry 2. Clutches (birthday gift by my sis) 3. Favorite Saree 4. Most comfortable car. Ford Fiesta: 5. Oh such a beautiful smile all time favorite Thank you for visiting! Have a blessed life.

I have decided, however busy I may be, I shall read at least one page of a book. Have I ever mentioned that Goa houses one of largest libraries in Asia. Yes, "Krishnadas Shama" State Central Library, Goa. New State Central Library Old one The Central library was established on 15th September 1832 by Vice Roy Dom Manuel de Portugal e Castro as ‘Publica Livraria.’ It had a beginning name as ‘Academia Militar de Goa’ (Military Training Institute). In 1836 the name was changed to ‘Bibliotheca Publica’ and enriched with bibliographical repository transferred from the Convents run by religious orders that were suppressed in the1834. In the same year the Library was shifted to premises where the Municipal Proceedings were held, however, the collection on Mathematics and Military sciences was left in Academia and books on Administrative and Legislative matters were transferred to Secretariat Library. The book stack of this library has 47,000 books in four

 Linking up with Hallie on Five Favorites! Oh this is become my favorite blog. I have decided to post few of my daughters favorite toys. Sparkle has not come up with any favorite till now. Hope to post about him soon.  1. This Duck She quacked in such a rock sound and move around that Maple use to chuckle  all the way following it.     2. Ring Tower She loved those rings, and it helped her to pick up the names of colors quickly too! 3. Swing This little one could never been nailed for her meals, until we received this swing for  her 1st birthday from my cousin. Then there was not turning back, she would eat only on the swing :) 4. Cycle (it did not have pedals though) This one also was a gift from my friends. Oh she loved it! And the musical buttons it had on  the handle was too good. 5. All time favorite-  water in bucket  (even now at age of 5) She always loved to get into the bath room and pour water out of bucket an

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ I missed out on the last two weeks of PHFR, we were all down with cold and fever. By god's grace, all are slowly recovering.  Hence in order to celebrate recovery, I thought of making something special yet simple. So these are what I made . {Pretty} & { Happy }  At my home, people are eagerly awaiting the evening tea time the most, and specially on weekends it needs to be an elaborate one. I always try to make some homemade stuff on Saturday and Sunday evenings. I had read about these American biscuits at Ria's collection and was determined to try them out and wow as they say beginner luck, they were so tasty, that entire family opted out of dinner and just wanted more of them. I must say "Thank you Ria!" I severed them with coriander leaves and coconut chutney  I made some Dhokla on the subsequent Sunday, I had tried them before, but didn't turn out very well. This time howe

It's such a treat linking up with Hallie's, every time I get to meet a new family and be amazed with their stories. This time its at House Unseen !My god People have so much courage to start from scratch even when they are in mid of responsibilities and they do it so well! God bless them abundantly. ~~~ This week I though I would post my top favorite pics of my daughter. She is a photo queen, just love posing. 1. On her birth 2. With papa dear 3. All dressed up to attend mass! 4. Getting set to get out in rains 5. In traditional Kerala dress And now with a baby brother she is such a adorable big sister. Thank you Hallie for five favorites!