The Better Half

16/07/2026

13/04/2026

When your first class teacher is leaving the school to pursue something inspirational, you ought to take the matters of farewell gift in your able hands! And thats what Y did for his much loved teacher cm friend...
You will be deeply missed Roshini Mam!

05/04/2026

Makeover of a old sandook!!!

Follow it along the pictures for how it changed for this Sandook all in a day!

Beginning of summer vacations and our schenanigans together!

17/03/2026

Superheroes on canvas for the little superheroes at home.
My way of finding a place in their growing-up stories.

13/03/2026

एक पुरानी केतली,
थोड़े से रंग,
और कुछ ताज़ा फूल
बस इतना सा जादू ही तो चाहिए
मकान को घर करने के लिए।

Featuring a handpainted kettle with the theme ये इश्क़ नहीं आंसा 🫠

25/02/2026

Home, not perfect but true!

The base is of packaging from .india
Idea and creation by yours truly!

15/02/2026

हर अंत का आरम्भ तुम हो,
हर आरम्भ का अंत भी तुम ही।
तुम ही सृष्टि के करता-धर्ता,
तुम ही आदि, तुम ही अनंत… तुम ही शिव।

मैं हमेशा मानती हूँ कि जब भगवान को हमारे पास आना होता है, तो वे स्वयं कोई न कोई निमित्त बना देते हैं।
करीब डेढ़ साल पहले मुझसे शिव-थीम साड़ी बनाने को कहा गया था। तब शायद समय नहीं आया था।

लेकिन जिन दो दिनों में मैंने इस साड़ी को बनाया, उन्होंने जैसे पिछले छह महीनों की भागदौड़ और थकान को अपने भीतर समेट लिया।
जब यह बनकर तैयार हुई, तो मुझे भीतर से एहसास था, यह सिर्फ मेरी क्षमता का परिणाम नहीं है।

अगर शिव ने स्वयं मेरा हाथ न थामा होता, तो यह साड़ी वैसी नहीं बन पाती, जैसी आज है।

आपकी भक्ति ने मुझे दिशा दी… और उम्मीद भी।
इस कृति में मेरा श्रम है, पर उसकी आत्मा शिव की है।

PS- do check out last video for full view of the saree...

#महाशिवरात्रि #हरहरमहादेव

10/02/2026

Life takes you to places, love brings you home!!!!

This began as a birthday gift for
And slowly became a map of us.

Countries we have touched
Cities he has lived in...
His journeys supersetting mine and Y's
Yet always circling back to us.

Built from what was once discarded
CDs, one sided papers and time
Every mark holds a memory
Every circle remembers a return

One of the most thought over and intense project of mine
Kept washing me over with nostalgia
Finally found its place on the wall
And in the story!

May we keep getting lost in the world
And may we always remember
How to find our way home!

30/01/2026

Now, that we are on the topic of Lego, our home was a Lego landmine where our feet will always be accupressured by the tiny but incredibly effective Lego pieces...when the feet couldnt take anymore, we had to find a solution-
Step 1- empty one room to be declared as Lego Room
Step 2-never look back at the room with your cleanliness freak eyes.
Step 3- try bringing method to madness by investing 20+ hours in sorting the legos colorwise.
Step 5- figure storage space for these color coordinated legos but wait you follow sustainability, so buying plastic is off the choice.
Step 6- rummage through neighbor's plastic dispose, find some nice options
Step 7- one of them is this Royal Canin pet food box, quickly work your brains and
Step 8- Tadaaaaaa...a Lego storage box which excites the kid to put the Legos back in 😍

Thankyou neighbor for having a pet 🐶 and .india for this packaging!

Will be back soon, with other disposes which got converted to lego storage.

Anything and everything for the love of

Stay tuned!

27/01/2026

I started The Better Half, ten years ago & over the years, I’ve shared many pieces of art and craft here. Each one holds a story and matters to me, but what I’m sharing today is different, as this is closest to my heart.

The most beautiful part being it isn’t created by me, but by my best.

Presenting this one of a kind engagement tray designed by Y.

Ever since Y was about 4.5 years old, Lego found its way into his life and there has been no looking back since. He lives and breathes Lego.

While all of us were busy preparing for the wedding, Y kept asking-What can I do? In a moment of spontaneity, his Maasi asked if he can make a Lego engagement tray.

And that was all it took.

He spoke to his Maasi a couple of times, shared his ideas, and then quietly went about digging through old pieces, imagining, building, breaking and building again. He spent hours remaking it till it felt right to him.

What you see here is entirely his creation without any adult supervision.

If you look closely, you’ll see an ocean & coconut trees inspired by the beach venue, some wildlife as his Maasi loves it, a couple perfectly positioned to hold the rings & perched at the top an eagle from the Harry Potter for his Potterhead Maasi.

The tray turned heads at the event and became one of the highlights of the wedding.

When Y was younger, I enrolled him in art classes, believing that art gives expression. He was good at it but uninterested and quit after a few months. I remember feeling heartbroken.
I kept telling O how much I wanted him to find art as his way of expression & how sad I felt that he didn’t.
One day, O nudged me-why I believed art is only through colours and brushes. Why couldn’t I see creativity in the way Y mixed, matched, imagined & built with Lego?

This perspective changed the way I looked at art itself not only for Y.

And today, as I look at this Lego tray, I realise-this is the expression I was hoping for all along.
An expression of love for his Maasi.
An expression of thoughtfulness.
An expression of creating something one-of-a-kind for a BIG moment.

Sometimes, art doesn’t look the way we expect it to.
Sometimes, it quietly builds itself-brick by brick.