Marapaachi dolls for Golu

Lata good topic.yes still it is available ...i do have a old set as well as couple of new ones decorated.i will take a snap of it and i will post it.

I also have a set of marapachi with bride and bridegroom alankaram.Usually a set of marapachi was given as a gift by her family to a bride in her marriage.

Oh that is very sweet of Subashini right Lata??

Lata, I also said it seriously .I love all girls smaller than me.I will surely give when we meet.(pl inform me previously)I don't scare about it.It will be a pleasure for me.I told that from my heart .

Lata, Marapaachi is the main thing we should keep in the Kolu. since Subashini already commmitted I am not. I think Lakshmi will give decoration materiels. So all are tempting u to come to India soon?
Subashini u donot love elders, then I have to hide my age.

Rajamma madam, don't mistaken me.I don't mean like that.I love elders too.I respect them.showing your age is adding beauty to you.I like your kolams, your experience and comments.

I got a pair of marapacchi dolls from my parents side as a part of a tradition in marriage. I didn't decorate it in India but i got some color papers and decorated that. Keeping marapaacchi as a pair in golu (first step) gives prosperity. That's what they say.

Lata, why not throw a 'marapachi decorating' contest for Navarathri?

Yes i keep golu here is US too. the first year i got all the dolls from dollartree and after that everytime when somebody came from (relatives) India i got golu bommai from India and i have a big collection now. (not so big) atleast for 7 steps. this year i don't think i can keep golu because i'm in my ninth month of pregnancy and my son is a mischeivious boy now.

Hey Padma all the very best for a safe delivery - we are all curious so please keep us updated after the baby arrives

Thank you all for ur wishes. I will let u all know once my baby is born.

Hey, Padma, take care, enjoy full rest. we all wish and pray for the safe delivery!

Thank you Rajamma maa'm.

In olden days, the marriage of boys and girls were in their childhood or in their early teens, the marappachi dolls were given to the bride{?????????}, for them to play with.

You know, what is the significance of the wati [Cuplike mangalsutra of Teluguites, kannadites and Maharashtrians etc?] . When the children are married off at a young age, the girls ised to cry to see or go to their mother. These cuplike mangalsutras were filled with hardboiled sugar. When ever the small girls cry for their mother, elders used to ask them to lick the hardboiled sugar in them, to pacify them. Any other angles or views on this?

Is that so, Jayanthi? I've not heard of it! My mother used to wear a flat table-spoon sized thaali, which she will use to seperate the coconut from its shell during our temple visits when we were kids!

Hi all,
After seeing the marapachi image...... childhood memories flashing in my mind. Those days, even child was given marapachi toys to play which was (is) eco friendly, safer, no toxic substances etc. I hope, again those marapachi would incarnate in our lives.
Regards