Handicrafts made for this year's Kolu

After my earlier posts giving a detailed description of the dolls and theme, here are some of the handicraft items that my kids Vishruthi and Vishvesh did for this year's Kolu :

1. minAkAri painting done by Vishruthi:




















2. Tray decorated by Vishvesh:





Vishvesh's main source of inspiration is his Akka !! He has about 10% of the patience that she has (which I think is typical in most boys), but nevertheless does these items with a lot of enthusiasm and interest. (Veena,are you reading this??!!)







He has decorated this tray with glitter colors, has placed a CD at the center, decorated with beads around it and pasted an idol of Venkatachalapathy at the center.


3. suvAsini kOlam:




This kOlam idea was given by my mother. The items used in this are the regular items like bangles, cosmetic items like comb, mehendi, mirror, kumkum, chandan etc. Using these items, any design can be done for this kind of a kOlam.









4. Decorative plates:




These are again ordinary plates painted and decorated. In the plate on the right, the leaf at the center is a real one, painted in golden color by Vishruthi.









5. Variety of kOlams:





kOlams are my mother's and daughter's work zone:-). I must admit that my knowledge of kOlams is very basic:-(. Vishruthi comes up with a lot of innovative designs.(As Amma and Vishruthi were doing these kOlams, I was busy writing and cutting out labels that I used for the theme. Labels were about 40 in number and took a lot of time.)






In the above photo, the top left kOlam is the hrudayakamala kOlam. In the second row, the kOlam in the middle is done with javvarisi. The one on its right is the kundan kOlam, done with transparency sheets.To the left of the javvarisi kOlam are terracotta diyAs painted by Vishruthi and Vishvesh.



6. Decorations on Terracotta items:







This tray contains terracotta Puja items, again painted and decorated. On top left is a decorated coconut:-). Other items include a bell, agarbatti stand in terracotta and a decorated water jug.





7. marapAchi dolls decorated:

tirupati is famous for marapAchi dolls.







The base for the dolls as seen in the photo is handmade. The small kumkum containers that we see in front of the dolls have been decorated with rAkhi thread, done by Vishruthi.





8. Terracotta diyAs:







The terracotta diyAs seen in the picture were painted by Vishruthi and Vishvesh. Vishruthi has used clay to do the girl doll and the sunflower.






9. Top-water rangOli and under-water rangOli:

Vishruthi did these too, befitting to this year's theme. (Photos of these are on a different camera, I shall post them in a few days.)