You are Three ...My dear Boy Donu. 28th May 2014

The way   I  see it you should live everyday like its your b'day ..
Happy B'day sweetheart....give me a tight hug Donu.

 Today's grandmothers lead full and active lives that include everything from working and traveling to attending meditation classes join clubs and lead a carefree life.

 But that's no surprise.  When we age we cast off the care and responsibilities of raising our children – as we move on with our lives, . Freedom comes, to do as we please, to stay in our pyjamas all day, should do as we desire, but something happens in the form of a beautiful baby who has the ability to twist us around its tiny finger. Yes, “I am a grandparent” now.

The joy of this tiny babe for one to fuss over, adore, and spoil with no responsibility and to be able to hand back to the parents, adds a new dimension to our lives. The first smile, the first tooth and first word not only swells the heart of the parent but also the hearts of the grandparents too.  

We as grandparents, being older have something so special we can add to the richness of this child’s life; ‘time’.  This is something busy parents rarely can afford. Somehow small children and an older person were designed to be together, small children take tiny steps and notice things a busy parent may not, and  we older people are often slower, and have time – to study a caterpillar or an interesting bug with a young one at our side.

 
 A bond grows between the small child and the grandparents; we can tell them  and show the album what their parent was like as a child. . I do not mind reading the same story over and over again and the joy on their (and our) faces. When we see them fills one’s heart with pure love. This relationship also gives me a chance to find the child in ourselves once again, to sing silly songs and tell silly jokes, to laugh and color in once again.

Through the years, My grandson Dron have enjoyed many rich and wonderful experiences, and now it's time to share  with him.I would love to treasure every moment of his every  child act in his memory book.

 This unique memory book gives a new generation of grandmothers to help a way for the beginners.

His knowledge about IPOD is simply amazing he is my teacher with this new technology  .

My grandchild will love finding out more about me, a fascinating person in your own right, his passion  for cars and  the details and pics of the cars he is really interested in ,not  only that   he tries to explain  me every small detail of his car collection.

 My Grandchild will help you open with the special young people . If  he found the person  sounds  he will pull out their hands and try to open with them,  I am Dron Prabhu your name please..

Reducing wrinkles is probably on your agenda.....? ?

Women while they reaching at   40’s and just beginning to see the first signs of aging, and at 5o’s with skin that isn't exactly keeping your birthday a secret, seeking ways to reduce wrinkles  is probably on your agenda.

At the same time, many of us are losing the wrinkle battle, watching helplessly as the glow of youth goes on the dimmer switch.

"Many women believe that aging skin is inevitable, but with the information and technologies we have today, you really can look as young as you feel,"

Smooth, radiant skin is something everyone wants. While there's no magic bullet, the food you eat, along with a healthy lifestyle, can help some of the visible signs of aging.......How to Reduce Wrinkles:

The sun.

 It's the No. 1 cause of wrinkles,  sotry to avoid limited sun time  to look younger and to have fewer wrinkles. Wear sun screen if you must go out in the sun it will protect wrinkles.

 Get adequate sleep.

  when you don't get enough sleep, the body produces excess cortisol, a hormone that breaks down skin cells. Get enough rest, , and you'll produce more high human growth hormone., which helps skin remain thick, more "elastic," and less likely to wrinkle.

 Sleep on your back.

 Its quiet difficult the people like me

 cautions that sleeping in certain positions night after night leads to "sleep lines -- wrinkles that become etched into the surface of the skin and don't disappear once you're up. Sleeping on your side increases wrinkles on cheeks and chin, while sleeping face-down gives you a furrowed brow. To reduce wrinkle, sleep on your back.

 Don't squint -- get reading glasses!  any repetitive facial movement -- like squinting --

 overworks facial muscles, forming a groove beneath the skin's surface. This groove eventually becomes a wrinkle. Also important: Wear sunglasses. It will protect skin around the eyes from sun damage -- and further keep you from squinting.

 Eat smaller portions. Choose nutrient-dense, healthy foods from all of the different food groups. Exercise, and wear sunscreen. All of these things will help you look and feel younger,\

 These foods deliver nutrients that can help keep your skin looking great.

Oats

oats because they're low-glycemic," foods that don't spike your blood sugar like refined breads, rice, and pasta can. "High-glycemic foods are known to cause acne and wrinkles," Oats also have a natural plant chemical that helps prevent damage to skin cells and soothes skin irritation.

Also try: other whole grains such as shredded wheat, barley, brown rice.

Oranges     These are loaded with water, so they hydrate your skin and your cells, One large orange is an excellent source of vitamin C, which helps make collagen -- and that, in turn, helps keep your skin supple.

In general, vegetables and fruits are great for your skin. Get at least 2 to 2.5 cups of vegetables and 1.5 cups of fruit per day if you're a woman, or 3 cups of veggies and 2 cups of fruit if you're a man. Go for lots of colors so you get a variety of nutrients.

Also try: pink grapefruit, tomatoes, parsley and grapes.

 Avocados

Avocados are filled with a healthy type of fat, monounsaturated fat, which helps your skin stay hydrated,.That same healthy fat can also help you absorb some vitamins and nutrients that your skin needs.

Try replacing high-fat salad dressings and mayo with avocado. "It gives you a lot of flavor and texture, and you don't need much to feel satisfied,".

Also try: olive oil, walnuts,

Also try: eggs, chicken, tofu, beans, fish.

 

 Brussels Sprouts

These are an excellent source of the skin-friendly vitamins A and C, as well as foliate. 

Their vitamin C promotes collagen. And while you still need to use sun protection, vitamin A and foliate may help prevent sun damage.

Try roasting Brussels sprouts with a drizzle of olive oil.

Also try: eggs, chicken, tofu, beans, fish.Sprouts

These are an excellent source of the skin-friendly vitamins A and C, as well as foliate. 

Their vitamin C promotes collagen. And while you still need to use sun protection, vitamin A and foliate may help prevent sun damage.

Try roasting Brussels sprouts with a drizzle of olive oil.

Also try:  greens, broccoli, and cauliflower.

Salmon

This fish is one of the best ways to get healthy omega-3 fats in your diet. Recent studies have suggested that omega-3s, especially from fish, may keep skin cancer cells from growing and spreading.Aim for at least two 3-ounce servings of fish each week. Try it grilled with a whole-grain side dish like brown rice or barley salad.

Also try: , walnuts, mackerel, sardines,  milk, eggs. Peanut ,  grapes  and cocoa powder.

Mama

Hard works keeps the wrinkles out of mind and spirit .......:  )

What Can I Do About Grey Hair?

Some gray hairs -- especially coarse hairs, prematurely gray hairs and gray hairs around the temples and hairlines -- are especially resistant to color or quicker to lose color than other gray hairs. 

Try the following suggestions:

·         Apply color to gray areas first. (This gives resistant gray hairs more time to absorb color.)

·         Leave color on longer. (Adjust your timing and try it first in the strand test. Grays could take up to 45 minutes to color.)

·         Increase your hair color level. (If your grays still show up even after you've adjusted the timing on your semi- or demi-permanent color, you might consider going up a level.)

Science is also searching for a better solution to gray hair. I  genuinely feel L'oreal  which enables the natural process of hair pigmentation to take place biologically through a slow oxidation process. With the right proportions, everyone could get back their own natural hair color!

 Researchers are using this new chemical to come up with a new way to enhance hair color or cover gray.

Colored Hair Care and Tips

Color treated hair has special needs. Follow these tips to keep your hair looking great:

·         Use a shampoo created especially for color-treated hair (Revlon, L'oreal, Tresemme)

·         Wear hats or hair products with sunscreens to prevent your color from fading and drying in the sun

·         Dampen your hair with bottled spring water before getting into a chlorine pool (it will help dilute the chlorine)

·         Condition regularly

·         Don't brush hair when wet -- use a wide-toothed comb

·         Blot your hair dry -- don't wrap it or roughly dry it with a towel

·         Avoid over drying  your hair, blow dry until hair is almost, but not entirely, dry

When Should I Go to a Professional?

Technology has improved home hair coloring products, which also contain packets of deep conditioning lotion to prevent drying after coloring.

 So you can probably do a pretty good job at home on your own. However, there are times when it pays to see a professional colorist. For example:

·         You want to lighten or darken your hair more than three shades

·         You've colored your own hair and it's a disaster

·         Your hair is permed or damaged okay,   You have never colored your hair and want a major change so How can I find a good hair colorist?

Your best bet is probably recommendations from people whose hair you admire.

 And don't be afraid to ask a lot of questions the next time you go for a haircut. 

Troubleshooting Tips

·         Getting rid of color stains on skin -- Baby wipes work well, but try to avoid getting color on the skin to begin with and make sure to wipe excess from the ears and hairline before it has time to stain.

·         Coloring during pregnancy -- Some doctors advise their patients to avoid any kind of chemical service during pregnancy. While there's little concrete evidence that coloring during pregnancy is medically harmful so please avoid coloring during your pregnancy period.

·         Color fading due to chlorine -- If your local water contains a high amount of chlorine, you might consider getting a filter for your shower. Chlorine can strip color out of hair and make it very difficult to re-color.

·         Going back to natural color -- To avoid the two-tone effect of letting your color just grow out, have a professional use a similar formula with a highlighting method. In three to four visits, you will be able to stop coloring and not have an obvious line. 

      MAMA 

       I love to experiment all the time with my hair color.

Can I contact a deceased relative on my own? ( collections)

Is there a way to have a real-time two way

 communication with a deceased loved one?  This is 

much harder.  This is what professional mediums are 

doing when they do readings.  It’s difficult, though, if 

you’re not naturally talented in this area.

   

 Probably the best way to communicate with the dead 

on your own is through meditation.  Open and clear

 your chakras,as soon as your prayers - ask your 

deceased relatives to join you there.

  The only problem is that you may mistake an 

imagined visitation with a real one.  It will be difficult 

to discern if you are just making up their presence in 

your mind. 

 One of the reasons to go to a medium is because if 

they don’t know the deceased person and they don’t 

know you, and information comes through that is 

valid, you can be reasonably certain they are talking 

to  deceased loved one. 

 I myself, would seek another medium if I wanted to 

communicate with one of my own deceased relatives. 

 That’s the only way I would know for sure.  Or I 

would try to invite them to a dream because I would 

know that was real.  But nothing takes the place of 

having a total stranger tell you about your deceased 

loved one and passing on messages from them.

Whether or not you are able to initiate direct 

communication with a deceased loved one, please 

know that they are with you, can hear you, and still 

love you.  And of course, they’re okay. 

 The only time I see an unsettled spirit is when there 

was murder, accident, or suicide, and even then not 

in every case are they unsettled. 

I know it’s hard to lose someone you love and feel 

like you’re never going to see or talk to them again.

 But nothing could be further from the truth.  The 

dead don’t leave us, they just change form.

  Do your best to receive their signs and open 

yourself up for their communication.  When you think 

of them,send some love , and who knows you may 

feel someday your  loved  one coming down to you .

MAMA

   I had some personal  experience with my deceased family members I always try to talk to them of my personal problems  and in a matter of few days everything would be sorted out but I don't disturb them always....I share my happy moments also.

Death..? Is not the end of Life

 Death is not the end of life, death is  just a departure for the Spirit, which is our true home in the after life. People today know about earthy things in much greater detail than they did in the past but when it comes to the important spiritual matters such as death and the world after death,it can be said that the people of the past were much knowledgeable.

 The death does not occur when the physical body stops functioning. It is usually Closely related to how quickly a person is able to accept his/her death.During the first few days,the soul of the  deceased person usually remains close to the place he/she lived and tries to follow the lifestyle he or she used to. Souls that depart usually wander around their house during after their  first seven days after their physical death ,but when their conscious becomes clear enough ,a “Spirit Guide” comes to help them to realize that they are already dead. This

Spirit Guide could be ,in an ordinary case  parents. siblings, a close friend who died before.

Souls cannot begin their departure to the spirit world and becomes Spirits-because they lived with the totally materialistic view of life and strongly denied  life after death or emotionally attached something in this world to the point of  not being able to go.

Scared?? Yes I was...

Many souls who have an interest in persons life come down to watch his Life Movie.The movie shows  what kind of person the deceased really,was,revelling his thoughts and all his actions.By the time screening is over only for 7minites,the person  more or less realizes the results and if there are lessons he needs to re-learn,he will go to the most suitable place for learning in the spirit world.

The mental state at the point of death is very important.If a person is actually doing his spiritual practice such as chanting at the time of death then the influence of desires ,attachments and other souls  are minimal possible for that person compared to his state not chanting. The name of God and it also in a state of surrender to God’s will then he attains an better life after death.

This makes his subtle body lighter  at the time of death. Also the entire responsibility of his well –being in his life after death is undertaken by his evolved spiritual guide –Guru.

The fastest way to attain Moksha  is said to be devotion. Sincere devotion no amount  of  temple visits the best way to attain salvation is through discipline-devotion ,self surrender and the grace of Guru or God.

MAMA

To be continued.....

what you feel in your heart is still overwhelmingly alive. You even feel that you can talk to your loved one and expect that the message reaches him or her. And why not?

 Most of us have had experiences .....

Drapes and Your New Look!!

Are you bored with a Ghaghara choli yes I am, such a boring dress I feel money is spent, the fashion is out dated again you have to make some storing place for your expensive designer wear. 

What next....Wait! in a few yards of a drapes  you can choose to make a festival out fit. If you  want to  ghaghara  choli for the Deepavali- pick up a sari from your wardrobe and try to give a new look-after  one wrap around your body form a pleat but the pleats are tucked end of your hip and the pallu worn like duppatta.


You can choose a spaghetti top or heavy designer blouse..the choice is yours.

Sarong style  - After one wrap pleat half sari on the left side. Take the remaining to the right hand side from the back pleat again to the right, and tuck the remaining part of the pallu in front..let me say once  again-after one wrap around the body pleat the sari in the right hand side,the divide the remaining material into two, fold and tuck the on the left hand side and take pallu  a neck around.

I love this...for my Bride. 

     

It gives special effects it consists 2 chifons or crape with same or contrast  colors. Both worn regular saris coming from back to front on the left side  there will be two sets of pleats one on the right and one on the left side. Brides! Try to change e your sari  styling you look totally differentJ

Different style of handling and draping pallu.

Drapes in a different style put knot for pallu looks elegant and stylish  girls you look the best!

Go for conventional way of draping sari just hold it twisted around your hand,make a loop so you can insert your finger very comfy and stylish. leave the pallu left long on the left shoulder and wear it like duppatta without petals or twisted around the neck.

Here the sari is draped to create a skirt with pleats in front after one wrap around the body while the rest is down from the right hip to the left shoulder to hang down from the back.

Gujarati style  Coorgi and
My  all time favorite Bengali style!

This has regained it’s charm from sharmila Tagore to Aishwarya Rai .After one wrap around the body with one large pleat in the front showing off the rich border carefully tuck the sari anti clockwise on the front  side.(over the bust)..then the pallu takes at the back from the left shoulder.carefully pleated behind and brought over the right shoulder in the front.

THINGS TO REMEMBER

keep a few things in mind while draping a saree to look slim. A few simple rules and you can look taller and slimmer in sarees. 

Light weight fabrics like Chiffon, Georgette, Crepe etc. stick to the body closely, so they make you look slimmer. 

Cottons, Kanjivarams, heavy Silk, Brocade, Tissue etc a sari can beery well draped over a churidar or a pant in fact gives a slimmer look.

 as they add volumes to the over all look. 

 To look slim, opt for small prints or motifs.

 Bigger or broader borders make us look short. For those who don’t want that, should go for slimmer borders or no border at all.

 Opt for darker shades. Dark colours make you look slimmer and makes your skin colour appear lighter. They hide the flaws but accentuate your curves just as much as necessary.

Find a petticoat that matches the colour of your saree exactly. If it’s lighter, your saree will also look a shade lighter. The same applies to a darker petticoat.

Tip: Semi fitted petticoats make you look slimmer.

 Lay out your saree and figure out which side is inside and which is the outer. The Pallu ofcourse will be the outer side and the other end, the inner.

 Hold the inner end of the saree in your left hand around your waist.

 Make sure the hem is touching the floor and tuck the inner end border into your petticoat.

 Pass the saree onto the front. Maintain the same height so that the hem is even.

 Keep the top edge level and tuck in a little to keep the saree in place (safety pin at this point)

 Start folding the pleats from right to left while holding the edge of the saree.

 Hold all the pleats together and tuck them into the petticoat (make sure the length of the saree remains the same and the hem is even) (safety pin the pleats to your petticoat) 

Bring the saree around your body. 

 Hold it in your right hand and pass over the left making sure the border is even. 

 Drape on your left shoulder. Here, you can either let the border sit on your shoulder and let the rest fall casually. Or, following the pleat lines, create pleats on your shoulder and let the pallu fall in a thin strip.

Tips for blouse(tops)

• If you are slim then heavy work will be best for you, if you are overweight and fatter  side light work is suitable for you.
• A  designer blouse can give a woman more beautiful, sexy and gorgeous look.

• If you want to look gorgeous and beautiful then you should also consider the designs of latest trendy blouses. 
• There are so many types of beautiful designs of blouses like sleeve less blouses and blouses with short sleeve, long sleeves, short neck, deep neck, deep back, and backless blouses.
• Apart from sleeves you may also consider blouse length, various sexy neck and back designs depending on how much you want to expose your back and front.
• Embroidery, sequins, stones work also make a blouse very attractive and give women a rich look.
• So be careful while selecting a blouse for you it should suit your personality.
• Now it is not compulsory to buy a matching color blouse, you can also buy a blouse in contrast color.
•  Yes choice is yours...

Wish you a very Happy Deepavali... rock!!

Mumtaz style drapes