Here comes another set of rangolis for the occassion. I tried to do a rangoli 'Lakshmi style' on my kitchen top with kolapodi and this is what I landed up with. Though it not so perfect, since it had some heart shapes, I thought I'd upload it today. After I finished clicking a picture I was removing the kolapodi from the slab when I realised that it was making a base texture and suddenly Manjula's rangoli came to my mind and with my fingertip I just casually drew a usual freehand rangoli which I photographed and combined with the first rangoli since this also had some heart like shapes - hope you all like it 
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Here are the kolams and rangolis in this page:
- Romantic Rangolis
- Advanced kolams
- Margazhi Rangoli
- Marghazhi kolams
- Romantic Rangolis
- Pongal Rangoli
- Margazhi Dew Drops Rangoli Contest - 2010
- Marghazhi Kolams
This is a combination of some of my straight dotted pookolams which I had put for Marghazi.. The first and last are my personal favourites
Straight dots 19 - 1
This is one of my favourite chikku kolams. I put this in the month of Margazhi and am uploading this now only. Chikku kolams give me immense satisfaction as I find it quite challenging and relaxing and when done I feel happy - but this one should have been a little more perfect I feel. Look forward to your comments friends
Straight dots: 17 - 1
This month the weather is so unpredictable that almost every day it is raining and I am not able to put kolam outside. This was done on Sunday last when fortunately it did not rain. I call it the 'Disconnected Kolam' as you can see the lines are not joined... Hope you like it
Interlaced dots 11 - 6
I put this kolam outside my house on the day of my naphew's engagement couple of weeks ago and was waiting to upload it when I saw your announcement about 'Romantic Rangolis'. Now since this was an ordinary white kolapodi kolam I decided to redo it on photoshop and add the colours red and pink also and here is what you see. The normal traditional kolam with white hearts and a modern copy using photoshop with two shades each of red and pink... Hope I am able to spread enough love around ikolam
Straignt dots - 19 - 1
This is a very simple pongal paanai kolam which I drew on Pongal this year - I did not have a good choice of colours (Brindha and Preethi I really envy you guys) and had to make do with whatever was there, so though the kolam came out quite well, the colouring was not at all satisfactory. I am planning to go on a hunting spree to look for the colours owned by the envied two ikolam members mentioned above and hope to present some wonderful coloured rangoli soon
Margazhi Dew Drops Rangoli Contest - 2010
A dotted kolam for the contest. Dot count: 15-8
This was my first Marghazhi kolam due to the unpredictable weather here in Chennai. I took this from Aval Vikatan because I liked the shape of the roses very much. The dot count is a little confusing so I will give the count from the first line - inbetween dots - 1, 2, 5, 10, 9, 8, 9, 8, 9, 10, 5, 2, 1. I am sure this will look lovely if coloured - anyone want to try??
