Coral and the Wrap on!

P.S.: I have nothing much in my mind. So this is going to be photo heavy post

I am having a super weekend with husband, cooking experiment(recipe post will be coming soon) and arranging my wardrobe. 

This is what i wear on Saturday for -No Reason coz i just wanted to get dressed as  Husband is back home and i wanted an outfit post **SMILES**. Days in Hyderabad are getting hotter as Fall is coming(there is nothing like so called Fall in Hyderabad) and now there are no rains too, so i decided to go for a skirt.

 I got this mid length wrap on skirt from a handloom exhibition from mumbai in 2007 but had wore it just once. It's in cotton, have stripes and perfect for the current weather. So i decided to team it up with a basic coral top.

I wanted to add a belt to the skirt but as its a wrap on and has a knot at the back so could not get it right. A no so closer look of jewelry .

On Me: Top: Splash

Skirt : Handloom exhibition

Shoes: Old to remember

Neck-Piece: Dazzling Bling

Earing: Mumbai Linking Road

If you have noticed, i have not cropped my face in the pics. With time i am getting more confident in blogging but i still have fear of pictures getting misused. But as i want to do it, i am sharing pics with copyright statement somewhere in middle, keeping less changes for reuse.

How you guys are doing over the weekend?

With Love

Swati

Reason for (Not) blogging

Last night while trying to sleep, a lot of thoughts running into my mind. One of the thought that came into my mind was - Why i had started blogging if i could not post regularly. Which lead to me 5-6 months back when i get to know about the blogging world. 
One weekend, I has been goggling something(could not recall what) and end up landing on some fashion cum beauty blog. I am not sure about that blog as i am not following/in touch with that but while exploring the other blogs in its list, i found some interesting blogs and than I dedicated my complete weekend reading those blogs and find some new one. I know about the blogging since long but i always had read some technical or business blogs and had never thought that fashion/ beauty blogs can be so popular. After going through all those blogs, i found a connectivity with them- I love dressing up, love to go out, sometimes experiment in kitchen too and the best part is you can put up almost everything on your blog that is there in your mind. So I started this blog.
But in reality, blogging is not a piece of cake specially to post regularly with the rich content and/or pictures. In-fact, Blogging needs as much as dedication as any other job will need. Its very easy to say that i can also do what He/She is doing but when it come to actually implement than you come to the the pros and cons  of anything like not everyone can  pose on a public place for their blog.
The initial few months went in excitement but after that i am posting very less. Sometime i do not have  camera or Mr. photographer  is not there, than sometimes my mind is blank and the other times i feel lazy to writing something, sometimes office does not allow me to have time for my passions and than sometimes i forget to take pictures when i get dressed.  I know these seems like excuses for not to blog(i think i can write a book on that) but they are genuine one. I am really amazed how other blogger post regularly. I really respect the efforts they took to post on regular basis.
So i have decided that i am also going to post more frequently now and if Mr Photographer is not available, will try to capture them myself.

 This i wore today for the office. As Mr Husband is out of town, i decided to take pictured my myself. I promise once i'll get Husband back in the town and i am going to post the better quality pics.

On Me: Top: Miss Player

Jeggings: Levis

Belt: From mumbai store

Earrings: Splash

neckpiece: Dazzling bling

These tortoise earring are from my recent purchase, and i wanted to wear them. So i matched my earrings with the neck-piece and I loved it how they looked with Blue-White combination

A closer pic of the earrings and neck-piece. As the pictures are taken from mobile, they are not doing the justice with them but they are cuter in real.

How you feel about blogging? Is it easy for you?

With Love

Swati

Being in relationship!!

Few days back,I had been talking with my friend who is planning to get married this year which is supposed to be an arrange one. Arrange marriages are part of Indian Culture, in which parents or the family members find a match for the girl/boy and we still have approx 80% marriages that are arranged. But most difficult part with arrange marriage is to meet the person and decide weather they are gonna make it for the life together or not. Its tough to decide in a few meetings. That's why she was confused, afraid of the changes that will happen in life after the wedding and what if she could not take the right decision. She asked me, How i feel after getting married. Well i obviously feel good and lucky to have D as my Husband. But here i am not going to discuss my relationship but what i feel is there is no rule in a relationship. Every two person are different and so do their  behavior and expectations. So every relationship is different and cannot run by the rules.

However, a lot of trust and a bit of adjustment can make a relation successful. No one in the world is perfect. In-fact there is nothing called a PERFECT MATCH but there are perfect relations and its up to you how we take your relationship. If you are expecting something from your partner, do remember he/she might also have the same. He cannot go for shopping with you everyday or she might need some space for her friends or family. When  both the person in a relation remember this, they are gonna happy forever.

Lets move to the outfit. This i wore on monday for the office. Nothing fancy a printed top with a pair of denims(my all time fav). 

 Its a very old top which has a length with some cuts. While cleaning my wardrobe i got it out and did a DIY to get it ready to wear and I am in love with it. Well who will not, it has beautiful print, its in chiffon and it has detailed work on neck. What else is needed.

Top: DIY, To old to remember

Jeggings: Levis

Flats: Gift from Mom

Belt: Westside (Not visible in the pics)

Excuse for the low quality pics, as they were taken by me  while i was getting ready.

With Love

Swati

Color Bomb

Hello people,

Its really been long that i have not posted anything but i was really busy not only with work but has health issues also. Got the food infection again and had to go to hospital again and again for different tests told by different doctors. These doctors sucks specially when they write about the blood tests as i suffer from big needdle phobia. I know it might feel silly to afraid of needles at this age but i can't help it.I have gone through a no of tests in last few months but still i am not able to recover my Trypanophobia.

Lets move on the outfit. Its been more than two years of my stay in hyderbad and i have realized one thing that you cannot dress up in all latest trends when you are in the Hyderabad(other than only a few places). The people are very simple from their style and generally you will find them in traditional dresses like girls mostly wear only Shalwar kameez or kurti (kind of tunic) and that too are going to be very traditional style. You will not find anything from the latest trend here on the roads. I so miss Delhi/ Mumbai for all this. I know some people from Hyderabad is not going to like this but this is what i feel. People here are good from heart and very simple and helpful but i really do not like their dressing sense. 

I wore this few days back for the shopping and i must say, it turned a lot of heads especially from the girls. It might be because of the outfit or the colors i used in the outfit or the style. Whatever it was i enjoyed dressed up like a color bomb. I love colors (well who don't) and most of the time add a pop of color to my outfit. But here i added  loads of colors in just one outfit. Looking at the pictures i feel, i could have avoided 1-2 colors but that's ok. This is the way we learn.... Right.

As i was already loaded  with colors, i kept the accessories to minimum.

Top: Remanika

Tights: Splash

Bag: Yebhi

Shoes : Bata

How you guys have been doing?

P.S. : Please excuse any typo mistakes. I have got the new laptop and my hands are still not set on its keypad.

Rainy Days..

The weather in Hyderabad is very beautiful these days. It rains at-least once a day which maintains the temperature lower to 75 degrees and sometime sunny and windy. I love Hyderabad for this weather. I am enjoying the days as I LOVE RAIN and i miss my childhood days when we(i with my brother) used to go out for our bike rides in rain and play in water for hours( yeah that true) and mum used to should at us that we will get cold. They were amazing days an i so so miss them...

Now a rainy day has taken a different definition. If you are in office, just enjoy it from the window *sad face* and if its a weekend ,  you can go out for a drive with the loved one. But what has really changed in these rainy days is , it has made me so so lazy or i must say it has not made me lazy but i have become to lazy. I have thought of blogging 2-3 times in between but than i switched on my system, read my favorite blogs and decided that i'll write tomorrow.

Today it rained again and i prepared some spicy potato and onion bhajiya ( a kind of snack.). In hyderabad, it tough to find decent bhajiya so i prepared it at home and serve it with coriander chutney and believe me it was DELICIOUS.

How you do on the rainy days?

With Love

Swati

Mixing Print

It gives us the extreme happiness when we get something that we are not expecting it at all(actually most of the times). It can be anything like a hug from the loved from, a surprise or a call from a friend. I am felling very happy these days as i talked to a close friends after a long time on this friendship day. It feel awesome to chat your old pals on non-sense stuff.

Lets move to the outfit post, i love the way Tanvi from 'The Fabulous Life of Not So Rich and Infamous' mixes the prints together. She is the princess of mixing and matching and have inspired me a lot to mix the prints. 

I love to be very much in my comfort zone and never tried to mix the print. I had either a printed blouse or the bottom in a outfit but not the both. This is the first time (as if i could recall), i am mixing the stripes and polka dots.

I had clicked these pictures last week and while cleaning up the laptop, i lost it and thought that i have lost these(its pain when you loose your hard work) and than today while looking for some old pics, i found them again (unexpected happiness again) and i immediately wrote this post *SMILES* *SMILES*.

Top, belt: Westside; 

Polka dots pants, shoes :ASOS

bangles: yebhi

A Closer look of the prints.

  As both the top and the bottom are in light shades, i tried to fill the colors using the belt/ nail color/ lip-color.
Here comes my cute baby- my shoes.

I am not very satisfied with the complete outfit but i can manage it in the starting .. :)

What you guys thinks? Is it a pass or a fail?

With Love

Swati

Unpredictable Life!

Life leads us to very unpredictable ways. We think and plan in some ways and it surprises us with the new turns. It gives us new surprises, changes or challenges which can be good or bad but what ever it is,We can't change them and we need to face them.That's life.

Lately i have been thinking a lot about me and what i need from the life. Whatever i have in life is enough or am i made for something else? Should i not go to the next level in my life or i am on the right place? I am swinging in between weather to take life as serious as i (sometimes) want it to be and move forward in a direction with some strict steps or let it go the way it is running and enjoy the each moment of the present. I prefer to live in present without thinking much about future but there comes some time when you have to plan something and you cannot avoid it. I am running through the same phase of confusion and will surely reach on a decision that will keep my life in a way i want it to be.

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Lines from  "Time Of Your Life", i love to listen. They say the complete truth about the life.

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go

So make the best of this test, and don't ask why

It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.

I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind

Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time

Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial

For what it's worth it was worth all the while

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. 

I hope you had the time of your life. 

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. 

I hope you had the time of your life. 

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. 

I hope you had the time of your life.

Do you also feel the same or is it only me (or some people like me) who thinks like this?

With Love

Swati

Color me RED

A friend cum reader asked a question to me that why do i crop my face in the photograph that i post on the blog? while i share the photograph over the facebook page.

Actually there are two reasons for this. First,that concerns me more, is the misuse of pictures. I had faced this issue when orkut just started and did not had any security settings (if you have joined at that time, you must have an idea how bad it was), I posted some group photographs with my friends on my profile and a guy(whom i didn't know) downloaded the pics and posted them in his profile. Once we post something on the web, we have shared it to the whole world and even if we remove it from our profile, its still can be there somewhere. As i told over the blog here, i take time to open up with people and over the web, its all virtual and i don't who all is visiting the blog, i am just avoiding that. May be with time, i will get more confident on sharing the stuff over the web. I know you must be thinking, if i am so afraid of all this, why don't i stop blogging. Buts that's me.. :) I have posted my complete pics before here and here, its just like i play safer. 

Secondly, most of the time, my face comes in weird/funny expressions in the pics so i just crop them too... ;). See i am sleeping again in the pics.

This is what i wore the other day for shopping, followed by the dinner. A very basic and comfy outfit containing tunic and tights with some accessories.

I tried to fill the color in the outfit with red tights and accessories.I think they made the outfit a success. 

Tunic: W, tights, neckpiece : Westside, bangles : Yebhi

wedges: Inch-5

A closer look of the bangles.

With time i start getting the pain with the heals and switch back to the comfy ballerina.

Super cute ballerina : Gift from mom

Do you also feel the same on web privacy?

With Love 

Swati

Wrong Perceptions : Who cares

Does it happened to you that the people have some wrong perceptions about you and think exactly opposite to your personality? It has happened to me quiet a few times. However someone's thinking really do not affect me but still before one dont know me how can they judge or make perceptions about me.


A couple of years back, one of my close friend told me that in the very first few initial meeting, she thought that i have got a lot of attitude and it's going to tough to be with me. But when we started knowing each other, she found me completely different. I  gel up with people easily but when it comes to approach some one personally for the first time or in initial conversations, i hesitate to take the first step. But once i get in touch with one, i try to maintain our relationship loyally.
The other thing is, if i do not find a frequency match in thinking with someone, i try to maintain a distance between us. So that even if we do not agree on some point, we can share a healthy relationship. If you think this as i am giving you attitude, i don't care. I don't want to waste my time thinking in all these craps. 
Recently i got to know that one of my colleagues was telling someone else the same thing. I have communicated him multiple times and found that we think exactly in two opposite directions which made me to communicate with him on very required  topics. If he so thinks that we can be friend, why don't he talk to me directly. 


Initially, when i leaned that what someone is talking about me on my back, i used to get annoyed as he/she is trying to ruin my name in public but after a few times, i realize, who knows me will not believe the other one and who  don't know me why the hell should i explain this to them.
Now I am a person who really don't care what image people have about me and live the life as i want it to be like a free bird... ;)

Did you face the same thing ever?

With Love 

Swati

IIFA Awards 2011

Here are some pictures from the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2011 held on  June 25 in Toronto, Canada. I see a lot of pics/news on the internet about the event and their  style that i can not help commenting on them. 

White and nude shades seemed dominated in the event.

Genelia D'souza

Genelia D'souza in a gown designed by Gaurav gupta. I absolutely love the color and the frilly deign. Her knotted hair make suits to the overall look. I so love this girl and carries everything very beautifully.

Shilpa Shetty with her Husband Raj Kundra.

 She, in a sequined Dolce & Gabbana gown, makes one of my favorite  dressed celebrities in the iifa. It perfectly kisses all the curves so well.

Malaika Arora Khan

She was spotted looking fab as always in a cut-out Monisha Jaising gown and Maheep Kapoor's earrings. I always have a been a big fan of malaika arora's style and the way she carry herself is just fabulous. 

Anushka Sharma

She looked poised in a Sabyasachi at the IIFA. Use of minimum accessories/jewelry made this saari even more glam. Its very simple, fresh yet chic.

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chpra in Manish Malhotra's designed dress. She look so elegant and beautiful in the outfit. I specially like its lace work on the dress and the blue touch in the blouse.

Bipasha Basu

Bipasha Basu in Nude Ramona Narang dress. 

She really had bad day in IIFA and had been found wearing same dresses that her co-actor's wearing

Dia Mirza

Dia is looking so beautiful in this Blumarine Maxi dress. Its so chic and beautiful in person  specially the neckline but i still feel like something is missing for the occasion. May be its accessories or something else.

 Lisa Ray

 Lisa Ray was missing in this edgy but not fun dress with belts around the waist and shoulder. She look fab in a maroon grown, tribal esque necklace with colorful outfit and the   perfect hair do.

Neha Dhoopia

I loved Neha’s look on the green carpet. The Make-up, hair and polka-dots gown from Lanvin made for a great combination.

Sonakshi Sinha

Sonakshi Sinha in walked on green carpet in Alexander McQueen dress.Tan heels, McQueen clutch and red lips completed Sonakshi’s look but she could have picked up the better shoes.

All Image custody: google Images. 

Which one is your favourite?

With Love

Swati