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This is a novel sOnA square. In my blog http://www.ikolam.com/node/19870 , I tried to reproduce the rangOli of Mrs saumyA vijay. While the outer pattern is exactly similar to hers, the inner pattern of mine is quite different. I drew a single line pattern for the same dot motif. With that inner pattern of mine, I made a sOnA square with two lines. This is a pattern that can be drawn on a 9 x 9 dot pattern (white dots, green dots are for ornamentation, they do not count). With the remaining dots at the centre, I made a svAstika. You may also see tiny lamps (five dots with a green centre) and kuttuviLakkus distributed throughout. Enjoy!

Regards! - mOhana

This is also a rangoli taken from ikolam.. i found it quite cute and good.. after finishing this i asked my husbands comment.. he said hey u hav stolen this design from out bed spread ehh ??!!! i agreed yes yes basic design is from bed spread but i hav improvised it as a kolam here... he praised wow kalpna great!!! only i knew i hav taken ths from ikolam:-)

I made this Alpona (kolam) on Vasant Panchami day. As Lakshmi said, here in West Bengal, people celebrate it as Saraswathi Pooja. The children make small pandals, bring the idol of Saraswathi and perform poojas on this day. They wear small sarees during this festival. So we can get many types of small sarees for children during this period.
Here is a small offering to Maa Saraswathi and let us pray her to shower her blessing on our children.

This is a stain glass painting done by me to gift it to my aunty for house warming function and in this i did not use any filling for background i left it plain by framing with another glass. hope you all like this too..