Varalakshmi Pooja has always been my fav festival since my childhood. I love making ammavaru with my mom, helping her doing the saree, me and my sister loved putting all our lil trinket jwellery to deck her up and so thoroughly enjoyed doing it all.
My dad does all the backdrop decoration for ammavaru with color paper rolls, blingy hangings, we just love doing the entire thing as a family. Our festive morning starts by adding mango leaves to the entrance and helping mom in making lovely dishes, doing the pooja with her and having late lunch.
The best part is the evening gathering of friends and family and visiting every home to see how beautiful every ammavaru looked. We never had WhatsApp during those days, and the only way to invite people to our thamboolam (evening gift giveaway gathering) was to go home and put tilak and invite them home. It was mine and my sisters duty to go to every home in the neighborhood and invite them home. Its just bringing me into this memory lane as I write.
I am sure you all must have had some memories of doing this pooja, if not lets make one for ourselves and give those sweet memories to our lil ones to cherish about the culture. It doesn’t matter what festive you can celebrate, how elaborate we can do, all it matters is the effort in bringing those memories to the cultural outbring.
Alright this made me emotional, I am not going to held you up more on my thoughts…I know you guys are here for the sources, so lets dive in……
You can find all my ammavaru related products including Ammavaru face, artificial jwellery, Prabhavali and other things on my etsy store
Saree is from @kanchipurampuresilksarees on insta
Crown has been totally custom made by me, will soon share a post on that.
Steps has been made from Home depot deck steps, you can check full blog post here.
Front round table is from chakki coffee table
Adding some of the brass lotus candle holders and other decor used in the setup.
Here is the video of my background setup
Here is a link for sources and DIY details to replicate this look.
And my ammavaru pics are here ….
