Christmas Card Collection 2011

Any particular favorites, anyone?

Addicted

I recently re-discovered my love for making cards :) I'm in the process of putting together a huge stash of holiday cards (will post pictures once it's time to mail them out)

Here's a project that I worked on this weekend for a friend who is going to India this week. The order of pages is same as the order of the pictures. The windows open to show photos of the various times we've hung out together over the last couple of years. We were roommates for a little over a year, so it was hard choosing which pictures to include! I've not included pictures with the photos on the card, but this is just to give you (whoever bothers to read this blog anymore) an idea of what I've been working on! She's going back to India to get married, so please join me in wishing her all the best for this next stage in life :)

3 Truths and a Lie

We were made to do this as part of a 'team building exercise' at work today. So I figured I'd try and resuscitate my blog with this! Can you guess which of these is the lie?

• I once traveled in a Maruti 800 with 9 other friends. We got chased away by cops later that night..but not because there were too many people in the car! Stupid Chennai cops :P

• I was part of the winning team - 'The Smelly Cats', at a F.R.I.E.N.D.S quizzo held earlier this year.
• I spent a summer at my uncle's home in Spain and his home overlooked a nude beach.

• I once convinced my brother and younger cousin to sleep under the Christmas tree, so that they could catch Santa when he came in with the presents.

Was reading an old post (this one) and was actually happy to note that some things don't change. But I still haven't managed to do some of those things that I planned to do...and then I remembered this line from Elizabeth Gilbert's book - 'Eat, Pray, Love':

"Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly."

Three cheers to that!

Sorry

It's just a single word - 'sorry'. And it's so hard to extract from an unwilling giver. It surprises me then, how I'm so easy with saying my sorries - sorries to set things right, sorries to people I love, sorries for things I didn't do. Yes, you read that right - I do that too - say sorry at times for saying stuff and doing things I don't consider wrong. And I'm okay with it.

Someone would say I've compromised on what I believe in, said sorry when I don't feel it. But I don't see it like that. If it makes someone happy, sorts things out, I can do that. If that's the only way of convincing someone of my good intentions, I can do it. As long as that person is important enough for me to go that extra mile. Because you don't want to be estranged from someone who's important to you because they can't get your point. What do you get by being right and being unhappy?

But I'm not sure everyone thinks like that. And I'm beginning to feel like I may be giving up too easily in most arguments. That the sorry goes in vain. Ah well..

More pics!