Pep up your saree styles for each occasion

Saree

Saree is a dress that can highlight the beauty of an Indian woman, and is one of the most adaptable clothes. For every occasion, party or event, there is a saree. For instance, you can wear heavy silk and designer sarees with bright colours for weddings.

A sari, saree or shari is a South Asian female garment that consists of a drape varying from five to nine yards (4.57meters to 8.23 meters) in length and two to four feet (60 cm to 1.20 m) in breadth that is typically wrapped around the waist, with one end draped over the shoulder, baring the midriff.

The sari is usually worn over a petticoat (called 'parkar' (परकर) in Marathi lahaṅgā or lehenga in the north; pavadai in Tamil,pavada (or occasionally langa).

Below, we have provide some tips on how to choose a saree for any special occasion and event.

For Day Time Event:

Sarees that are perfect for daytime events, have two important points, First, must be a cotton saree and second, must be light in color. You need to avoid dark colors; such as red, blue, etc., otherwise you will be looked overdressed. Choose color like light yellow, light green, light blue, cream color, etc. Besides, a white saree with designs and good-looking prints can do wonders. Remember, Lace work is best for daytime party and function.

For Office Purpose:

You must pinup your saree in office because it will be more comfortable and manageable for you. You can choose a light color like light peach, blue, pink, green, cream, and white sarees along with light embroidery work and print appropriate for the office. However, if you are going to a business meeting, then you can wear minimalistic and plain saree. You can choose cotton, raw silk or chiffon sarees with light color.

Remember, you should iron cotton saree or any other that have to starch. Pleats need to be perfectly tucked for a beautiful look. Indian sarees are popular internationally, and women across the world are enthralled by their attractiveness and make them an important part of their wardrobe.

For Festival Occasions:

On festivals like Holi, Diwali, you can go for designer net or silksarees that are available online. They can be fairly heavy and you can wear matching jewellery with them. Silk Sarees like Banarasi and South Indian Silk Sarees are also great choice to wear during festivals as they proved they give a traditional look.

For Wedding Function:

On Wedding Season you can go for Silk Saree only that are also available in online.You can choose Bright colours then only you looks bright compare with others. And you can wear matching of jewellery with them. And you can put a makeup heavily. South Indian Silk Sarees are also great choice to wear during wedding as they proved they give a traditional look.

For Party:

Party wear saree does not essentially need to western outfits. If you are going to a high profile dinner party with your husband, family or colleagues, you can wear designer or net sarees.

KID’S BIRTHDAY CAKE

This is a fool-proof recipe. We have used this to make all sorts of birthday cakes over the years: trains, castles, jungles, ponds, harry potter worlds, various football clubs emblems, t-shirts, cakes with candy and sugared pictures...you name it.  You can either decorate the cake with butter cream and royal icing of various colors  or cut it into different shapes and glue them with butter cream. It is a tough yet not too heavy cake so it stands all sorts of icing (when we did a jungle we used 500 g of green royal icing and it did not collapse even a tiny bit)

You need:

325 g self raising flour

150 g plain flour

325 gr sugar

325 gr soft butter

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

5 eggs

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees.  Mix the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until it becomes pale yellow. Separately mix the flour (sieve them if you are not going to use a lot of icing; also, if you are going to cut the cake into shapes then don't bother with the shifting) Add one egg, then one table spoon of flour, then another egg and so on until you use all the eggs. Add the vanilla essence and then add the rest of the flour by folding it into the butter mixture. Bake for 50 minutes (we have done this in all sorts of tins and frankly it always comes out well).

Tirunelveli Halwa Online

Relish your favorite Tirunelveli Halwa by hitting online shopping

If you are found of Halwa and you are also one of those people who get tempted by even a single thought about it, you don’t have rush to your regular Halwa shop next time around. You can sit at home and order Tirunelveli Halwa Online, your favorite South Indian delicacy; in fact you can do it from your work desk at your office also. For those who are yet to be lucky enough to know what this special sweet variety is, it is high time to locate a nearby shop and try it out before ordering it in bulk. It has a very unique taste and not everybody might fall for it. For those who are not so familiar with the geography of South India and Tamil Nadu, Thirunelvali is one of the popular southern cities of Tamil Nadu which is at the sea coast with a lot of prominence to people’s lifestyle.

People at this city relate so well with their identity with food and their love for sweets begin from Halwa which is a special sweet made of flour and ghee. It is believed to be made with the purest form of ghee and it has a unique taste when consumed it fresh and warm. Sometimes, it is also tasty when it has cooled down and it all funnels down to your personal choice and preference of your liking. Who can guess your taste buds behavior? When you decide to hit online shopping for buying Halwa, you need to make up your mind if you want to shop from an exclusive online portal promoting Tirunelveli Halwa or you want to shop from a popular portal which has all reputed brands. Though it is a choice you have to make, you need to be aware of the shopping policy of the respective websites and shopping portals in terms of quality, shipping and returns.               

Sugar free sweets

You don’t have to be a glutton to enjoy sugar free sweets

The idea of introducing sugar free sweets goes back to couple of decades when it is found to be very essential to emotionally support those people who can’t have sweets and sugar containing food stuff. Today, sugar free sweets represent a guilt free living and you can grab the opportunity to enjoy them even if you are allowed to eat sugar filled substances and food items. You can look at this purely from a preventive healthcare point of view while you can also relish the taste of sweets which are otherwise believed to be harmful and damaging to health. The good news for you is that many of the sweet varieties you might like and enjoy to store in your kitchen can be found online. You can happily shop online and eat at home.

You can also look at sharing your happiness with your friends and relatives by using the gifting services online. You can smartly choose from the options available online and order them as gifts to be delivered at your friend’s place. With the introduction of these healthy sweets that are indeed free from sugar, you will virtually change the way you look at people who enjoy eating special foods like sweets, perhaps you must have even called them gluttons in some lighter moments. Typically you don’t have to be a glutton to enjoy good food which is also healthy, because you know these special sweets are not only tasty but also come along with healthy propositions, you can even recommended them to your loved ones. Today, you have multiple options to recommend good stuff to people by simply sharing it on social media; you can do it from a particular shopping portal itself by using smart and simple tools meant for social sharing.                   

WEDDING CAKES

The wedding season this time around had been exciting with many interesting designs made, and each one unique in its own way.

While designing wedding cakes a lot is taken into consideration, from the preferred color palette to the wedding decor. While some do come by for cake consultation, we have a standard procedure for wedding cake consultation, where in the cake design is sketched and sent for approval. Wedding cake design is very customer specific, whether they would want an “Indian Wedding cake” or contemporary and modern.

Wedding cake trends are ever evolving and we are glad that cakes have become an important part of these ceremonies, that renew their special day.

We specialize in sugar flowers, wafer paper flowers and designs, as well as sugar cake toppers of the bride and groom. Here is some of the wedding cake this wedding season by us, and it is important to note, how each of them are unique and very client specific.

A lot of these are also engagement and pre wedding cakes, while there are also cakes made especially for bridal shower and Mehendi functions!

Cakes  for Tambulam:

A very special Tambulam cake, made to design specifications provided by the bride and the groom. This cake is possible to deliver all over India.

Moroccan Inspired Wedding cake in Teal and gold

A gorgeous Pre wedding cake made for the Sangeet function of a beautiful couple. Specifications were “Indian colors”, bold, deep teal and of course gold!

A chic and Minimalist wedding cake with edible Wafer paper flowers and sugar ruffles, with a dash of rustic gold.

Sugar flowers, Edible gold lace adorning peach pink and white!

A very special engagement cake, showing a floral arrangement in hues of white, subtle pink and peach.

Among the flowers are sugar paste gardenias, phalaenopsis orchid, open peonies, rose and foliage, against a gorgeous backdrop of subtle peach and gold tier, pearl white tiers with edible sugar lace and sugar pearl studs to adorn the simplistic top tier.

Loved working on this one! And almost ran out of time to get this done and delivered in the wee hours this morning, sorry about the not so great backdrop!

Kisses!

2 tier wedding cake with edible Sugarlace and Fantasy flowers

A perfect wedding cake for Shourya. The absolutely adorable couple in their wedding dress (all handmade in sugarpaste) blowing kisses…… on a super dainty 2 tiered wedding cake, studded with sugarpaste fantasy 5 petal flowers, and the top tier with edible sugarlace in gold. Gold is the color of this wedding season, and peach is Shourya’s favorite.

Wafer blooms and pristine white ruffles for a couple in Love.!

Yet another Engagement cake, where I was given free rein, but with a HUGE time constraint, to brainstorm the design overnight and come up with something subtle but fun.

The subtle ruffles in white, with a hint of deep red, and of course the rustic antique gold splashed on the top tier , and a sugar silhouette of them, just like how the bride to be wanted.

Red, white and gold- A wedding cake designed by the client.

Our Client ( the groom) designed his own wedding cake, from a mix of a bunch of our previous wedding cakes! How cool is that!

The color palate and everything else was decided by the client. Wish them a joyous life together!

A glamorous wedding cake with the popular color pallet for Indian weddings we made for a gorgeous wedding here, in striking red, gold and priesting white!

Tribute to Father

"Honor your father and mother.” This is the first of the Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. And this is the promise: If you honor your father and mother, "you will live a long life, full of blessing.” And now a word to you fathers. Don't make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the Lord.

Fathers are the biggest source of strength for a child. The innocent eyes of a child perceive father as the all-powerful, most knowledge, truly affectionate and the most important person in the family. For daughters, fathers are the first men they adore and fall in love with. While for sons their fathers are the strongest person they know and someone they aspire to emulate. Even for the grownups fathers are someone whom they look up to for the most experienced and honest advice that is always in the best of our interest. For this great figure in our life that we know as father - it becomes our utmost duty to pay our humblest tribute on the occasion of Father's Day.

Say Thanks to Dad on Father's Day

Children blessed with a loving father should consider themselves fortunate. For, they have someone to take care of their needs and interests. Someone to stop them when they are diverting to a wrong path and guide them on a road to success and virtue. For many of us fathers have always been there to solve our innumerous mathematics and science problems and explain the same formula hundredth time or better still until it is understood by us. Fathers would never ever give a smallest of hint to let us know how hard they work to take care of our needs and fulfill even the most whimsical of demands... For all their adorable scolding and affectionate punishments we all owe a big thanks to our Dads.

Apologize to Dad on Father's Day

Father's Day also brings with it the wonderful opportunity to apologize for all our rude and insensitive behavior. We as children often take the love and affection of our parents for granted and treat them with outright contempt. We need to apologize. We must feel great to have the presence of loving father in our lives and do not disrespect the blessing of God on us. On Father's Day we must says “Sorry” to our Dad and seek their forgiveness for our wrong behavior.

Celebrate Father's Day with Dad

We must make all efforts to celebrate Father's Day with our Dad. Children staying away from father must especially strive to spend the day with father and show gratitude for all their support and love. We must pamper father by spending the day in a manner he likes most. It could be going out for a picnic or indulging him with a gourmet meal. We can also express love with thoughtful gifts accompanied by a bouquet of his favorite flowers. The idea is to show our affection and tell Daddy how much he is loved and appreciated not just on Father's Day but every single day of our lives.

How to Celebrate Father's Day

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, though it is also celebrated widely on other days by many other countries.

1. Help your dad to celebrate the day.

Perhaps you'll let him sleep in this morning, or perhaps you won't harry him over something you'd normally harry him over. Whatever it is, let it be his day. Some nice ways to start it include:

     A)   Making him breakfast in bed

     B)   Bringing him the newspaper to read in bed

     C)   Baking his favorite kind of cake.

2. Make it a family occasion.

Father's Day is by nature a family occasions. Use this opportunity to get everyone in the family together for a fun day. Think about including all the dads in your family, not just your own father. Could your celebration include husbands, likely future dads, your uncles, and brothers? If so, do it—the more the merrier! And don't forget step-fathers—they're important too. You don't have to remain at home; you could go to the beach, a local park, a favorite spot of dad's!

3. Be creative.

When it comes to making gifts for Father's Day, perhaps clear of the traditional store-bought materials of shirts and dhotis. He's probably still got last year's shirts stuffed at the back of the drawer. Expensive or typical gifts are not necessary, but the time and effort you put in to create a personalized compliment, will be deeply appreciated. Instead, let your own creative abilities shine and make him something special:

      1.      Prepare the sweets

      2.      Make his favorite lunch

      3.      Make a gift basket and fill it with homemade chocolates and flowers.

4. Celebrate your shared experiences. 

Look at old photos of your dad and you doing exciting things together. Take a walk down memory lane by creating either a photo album. You may be shocked at how many things you both have over and done about and how much they mean to you.

Especially if he doesn't talk much about his life, consider recording his voice or taking notes as you talk about old times or old photographs. Write a letter and memories part of the family history.

5. Make the day happy.

The most important part of the day is that you are present and attentive. It does not provide a material to make a dad happy—it takes showing your love, and encouraging your dad that you're proud of him and all he's done for you. For many fathers, the most rewarding part of being a father is feeling that your children love you, and the facts that each child is on a path to a successful future, no matter what age, and is coping well with the problems that life certainly throws at us all.

6. End his "fun-filled day" by telling your father you love him.

Don't forget his hug and kiss!

For more Father’s day gift ideas click here.