Am talking about the Varalakshmi Vratham. I thought i arrived in Haifa with the essentials for a complete festive year here too. But only as my MIL asked about the vastram, did it ring a bell that i had only carried the Varalakshmi mugam and not the accessories. My khoj for a perfect traditional indian wear for the Amman started a few days ago. I was hunting many a things in parellel - banana leaf, coconut, a sombu for kalasham, jaggery to make mothagam and appam, turmeric sticks etc etc. Discovered the plaintain in the gym, made alternate arrangements for the kalasham and as a friend suggested am gonna try subtituting the jaggery with brown sugar! I got the turmeric sticks from Akko along side sukku, sitharathai for little A's cold treatment. Talking about coconut as a support for the mugam, am going to use an Orange from the land of the Citrus.
Anyways, the dress for my varalakshmi was still a big question mark. My MIL suggested to just use a new blouse bit - that south indian currency which makes a full circle from door to door in an agraharam aka community. I didnt have any of that too, why would i carry blouse bits to Israel ??!! I'm totally against this whole blouse bit thing and for Navrathri i only distribute small useful gifts with the traditional vethalai pakku.
Coming back to the hunt, i visited many a baby shops looking for cute baby girl dresses that i might make use of as a vastram, but Alas! Its summer and one can guess the type if dresses available here for kids. I had made up my mind to even use the belly dancing cloth studded with gold coins that the dancers wear around the waist as a last resort. Luckily after nearly 3 days of khoj i found this one, that kind of looks like a traditional indian colored skirt - the red skirt! The only other color that i came across apart from summer colors like pink, lemon yellow, white....
A pretty long baby skirt, i cut it out, alter here and there, put a stitch or two to get a short pavadai and upper cloth. This is how it looks right now.
Am going to go look for some flowers now and if i dont succeed, i'm going to buy a bouquet!
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