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My latest swap yarns for my sock yarn
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| Decorations for Dewali at our hotel! |
We've had a busy couple of weeks. We traveled to Mumbai and stayed at the Oriental Hotel in West Bandra. These pictures came from the front steps. I love the drawings and think they would make great quilt designs. Dewali is the festival of lights and they really celebrated. Lots of fireworks! They were even throwing fire crackers in the stairwell of our apartment building. Something that was very startling to me! The tradition is to give gifts of fruit and nuts. India has a lot of holidays that are just cool. My favorite is Brother/Sister day where you give gifts to your brother or sister depending on which day it is!
I made this Christmas stocking for my son, Mike, who is currently serving a mission for our church in Los Angeles, California. I will be mailing him a package this week with some wonderful indian things like a beautiful leather wallet that is embroidered. The women here do amazing work and I am lucky enough to live near where it is all made.
My children are coming to India for the holidays. It will be wonderful to show them all the sites and just be with them. They are very excited to have the opportunity to see where we live and meet all the people here. I am sure we will spend several days visiting the markets not to mention the sites here in Bhuj. We are also taking them to a wild life park which I am sure they will enjoy. I sure do miss being near my children. Mike will miss out on India this year but he will be coming here after his mission.
Mike has been having great success teaching people the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am still amazed and grateful that someone took the time to teach me the gospel 29 years ago. What a difference it has made in my life. It has truly taught me that "Men (and women) are that they might have joy"
