Spring is here! I was waiting for the cherry tree in the garden to burst into blossom and it did this weekend. I am off to a late start this week because I don't feel completely recovered from my bout of flu and my energy levels are not back up. Plus I am completing my grad school program this summer. The two years of work+school+family+blog+long commute is starting to exhaust me. I am very happy and proud to have gone back to school and I wouldn't trade it for anything. It has made me more confident, efficient and positive and I have made so many new friends who have broadened and added depth to my life. But it has been extremely tiring and very disorienting to flit back and forth between a university student's life at Berkeley and my suburban after hours. I couldn't have done it however without the support of my amazing family. This post is beginning to sound like my Oscar acceptance speech but I am going to keep writing because I have noticed blog posts have a will all their own. You intend to write about something but once you start typing, the words write themselves!
My parents have promised to be there to watch me walk at the commencement ceremony and I have my fingers tightly crossed that everything goes well and they will be back in May to see me get a second graduate degree. It is very important to me because on the last two occasions they haven't been able to make it and I feel like I somehow missed a rite of passage. Does that make sense?
How was your weekend? Mine was lovely though very busy. I did get a chance to move things around the house and generally, pretty it up and make it spring-ready. I find it extremely relaxing to create vignettes that tell stories, to style objects and to make things 'just so' (I am very Type A). Since the blog world has been awash with washi tape DIY's, I felt compelled to buy some and try it out. You can see my experimentation in the picture. Pretty, yes?
I bought an ikat patterned tape and combined with this red lace design. I think it gives washi tape an Indian touch when it's paired with a Rajasthani miniature painting! Are you getting your home ready for a change in seasons? I would love to hear from you, so do write in.
All pictures are taken by me and copyrighted to Once Upon a Tea Time.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing quite as beautiful as watching a tree in bloom...and cherry blossoms are simply a joy to behold. It's not quite spring yet where I live so I will have to vicariously appreciate the blossoms, as in over here...
I have just moved to the States so am in the process of decorating my house...it's inspiring to read your posts and start thinking about mixing up the decor with the passage of seasons:)
Whoa, didn't realize that frame was a DIY at all! Good job! Fingers crossed your parents make your graduation as well. As someone who nearly missed all of hers, and whose family missed all but one, I can completely commiserate with the stress of it all!
ReplyDeletexo Naomi - www.BeReadyBravely.com
Priyanka S, thank you! @Naomi, hope you are settling into your new home!
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely blossom! I miss Spring in San Francisco and Berkeley. Here in England it is late, it almost came .... and then it snowed again! Your home and creations look wonderful. And well done to you about your studies, it is indeed a rite of passage and one which we can take at any time, in fact multiple times in our lives. Knowledge is always precious. Minerva ~
ReplyDeleteLove your vignette with spring branches and the way you gave the washi tape an Indian twist!
ReplyDeletePriya...your frame and vignette looks beautiful, can't wait for trees here to blossom like yours.looks like it will be soon because just saw few branches sprouting on my rose bush and got excited like kid :)
ReplyDeletethis looks dream like priya....love this..i hope i was there in person to see this:)-
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