Thursday, July 10

An award and a meme

I've been tagged to participate in a meme by Paula of The Beauty of Life in addition she's given me an award. Thanks Paula your work inspires and your style of writing has me grinning with pleasure most mornings when I see you've updated your blog .Sets the tone for the day better than caffeine.

The rules for receiving this award are:1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog. 2. Link to the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs. 4. Put links of those blogs on yours. 5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you’ve nominated.

My nominations for Brilliante Weblog Premio -2008 are ......

Art in Stitches

Travel, Fibre and Thread

A Cup of Chai

Crayons

The Plum Tree

Geninne's Art Blog

Zlamushka's Spicy Kitchen

On then to the meme.

1. What was I doing ten years ago?

That would make it 1998. I was visiting faculty teaching textile and design courses at NIFT, started embroidering one of a kind scarves and stoles without a clue of how to sell them. It was also the beginning of sorts of my association with the development and NGO sector - I did two projects that year one a design intervention project in Kasuti embroidery for the economic empowerment of women in Karnataka and the second was an enterprise resource development project creating products out of Sisal fibre also for women in rural Karnataka.

2.Five things on my to do list today.

Tag seven people for the Brilliante Weblog award and notify them.

Follow up on the repair of the washing machine the service guys have already been over three times!!!and the problem has not been fixed, heaps of laundry to do.

Mark points on the wall where I want nails so I can finally put up illustrations and photographs which deserve to be viewed at eye level rather than propped up against the wall at floor level.Hopefully get someone to put in the nails as well.

Grind up the rice and lentils left to soak over night and make the batter for adai.We will be having adai for dinner tonight.

Work on the pages of the Little Red Book which has been neglected of late.

3.Snacks that I enjoy

Chocolate

Tea and Marie biscuits to dunk in the tea

All sorts of Chaat

Fruit

4.Things I would do if I were a billionaire

Travel

Give to charity

5.Places I have lived

Assam, Cochin,Ooty,Coonoor,Madras,Calcutta,Ahmedabad,Coimbatore,
Bangalore,New York

Ok got to go and get most of what is on the to do list done. Nails, laundry, red book......

11 comments:

pRiyA said...

ha ha ha... what fun. loved your answers to the meme. and thanks for nominating me.

Crayons said...

Hi Million Stitches,
Thank you very much. I just got turned down for a job, so I was feeling very blahhh about myself. Your sparkly nomination brought me back to life. You should have nominated yourself! I just love visiting your red and pink site.

Maya Sara Matthew said...

You are both most welcome Priya and Caroline.I hope something more interesting works out for you Caroline you deserve the best.

zlamushka said...

Hey Embelisher,
I am so touched, thank you very much for thinking of Burnt Mouth :-)
Btw. T&T round-up is up and running, hope to see you in July´s challenge.

Maya Sara Matthew said...

Hello Zlamushka,That's a great round-up and I'd like to part of the July challenge - What's for lunch Honey is a great site with some fantastic photography.

Guzzisue said...

hi, just spotted my name, thanks for the award :-)

Padparadscha said...

Hello, I see you are part of TIF and Stitchin fingers.

Will you be part of Robin Atkin's 2008 Bead Journal Project too ? I'd love to see your beadwork !

Maya Sara Matthew said...

Hi Helene, No I'm not a part of Robin Atkin's 2008 Bead Journal project, not that I didn't want to participate but I discovered the project long after it had started and there was too much of catching up to do.I'm keeping an eye on Robin's blog to see when she announces the next project, i haven't really done too much beadwork of any sort but i'd like to try after seeing all that people are doing.

Padparadscha said...

Hello again :o)

This is the link to enroll in the BJP project :

http://www.beadjournalproject.com/reg.htm

The deadline for enrolling is August 15th, and the project actually starts in September.

I hope you join us !

Kind regards.

Maya Sara Matthew said...

Thanks for the link and for letting me know that the 2008 bead Journal Project is yet to start Helene. I had it all mixed up, I was still in 2007.Yes I think I should join, its going to be a decade of fiber journals.

Padparadscha said...

I hope you do join us !

You know I had virtually no experience in beading when I joined in may 2007. This year has proved fantastic for me in terms of art, friendship, and life experience !

I love this idea of people committing to stitch love throughout the world for a year, exploring their own pains and joys; this is true magic ! :o)

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