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The clay ganesha idol is ready and waiting to be painted! I am linking here

Diwali is a festival of lights celebrated in India for many different reasons by people from different culture and religion. But the main gist behind it is celebrating the victory of good over evil. The diyas or candles are considered to bring light in darkness by helping achieving knowledge where there is ignorance, and spreading love where there is hatred. I am linking here

Ganpati Decorattions in progress Another view of Ganapati decorations Temple made with styrofoam and shot glasses, decorated with acrylic paints and beads All the preparations just before first day of Ganapati Pooja. Ganpati Bappa behind the red cloth waiting to be placed in the temple.  The Pooja Thali Coconut, Beetel Leaves, Insence, Flowers and Durva. Found this color changing lotus @ BigLots The pictures from the last day of the 10 day Ganesha festival. Ganpati Bappa Moraya, Pudhchya varshi lavkar yaa!! Hail Lord Ganesha, come again early next year!! Linking to the " Weekly Stories wk 48 " @ Colours Dekor

Handmade Ganpati Idol for Ganesh Chaturthi Celebrations Teracotta Clay Handmade Ganapati Idol

Its that time of the year again when I have to start planning what decorations I want to do this year for the Ganpati festival starting on the 1st Sept. I was looking through the photos of the  Ganpati decorations from previous years. So I thought of sharing the Ganpati decorations photos from each of the 6 years in the U.S.A. Ganpati decoration @ LasCruces, NM -2005 Ganpati Decoration @ El Paso, TX - 2006 Ganpati Decoration @ Oxford, OH - 2007 Ganpati Decoration @ Trenton, OH - 2008 Ganpati Decoration @ Mount Vernon, OH - 2009 Ganpati Decoration @ Mount Vernon, OH - 2010 Now I am in a dilemma of what next should I use to make the Ganpati temple in my Ganpati decorations for this year.. Suggestions please!!

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This year during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival I decided to make a clay murti myself. This was my first attempt at clay modeling a murti, though I have done several ceramic designs on pots. For the first time it turned out good , only that it felt that Ganapati was a little weak.. but never mind with 11 days of pooja and prasad he will definitley regain the "lamdodar" name. Well, I used the Crayola Air Dry clay which is readily available in all the craft stores like Hobby Lobby, Micheal's.. etc.. I let it dry for a couple of days and then used different acrylic and stain glass colors to paint it. This was a wonderful use of the "Gerber Baby Food glass bottles" , some of my friends said. I made a temple using them , decorating it with some rhinestones, painting the caps and gluing them together on glass to form a beautiful glass Temple. Finally , the last day of Ganpati Festival, the visarjan(immersion) .. It is kind of difficult (or to say not al...