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Garlands, paper flowers, and string lights dangle from the ceiling.
Houses get decorated — inside and outside — with garlands and greenery.
No amount of tinsel or garlands can cover the truth.
Others are facile, unsurprising — self-help adorned with peer-reviewed garlands.
In a traditional Hindu ceremony garlands of flowers are first exchanged.
Fashion craves victims, vestal virgins to hang in garlands of silk.
The Pawars also make homemade decorations for Diwali, like marigold garlands.
Lawson and Greene were surrounded by wreaths, garlands, and Christmas knickknacks.
They were also given traditional Tonga garlands to wear during their visit.
Flat surfaces are punctuated by relief-carved putti heads, swags and garlands.
Then they began replacing the deity's many flower garlands with fresh ones.
The living room was a riot of Yuletide splendor: trees and garlands.
Timing, personality and geopolitics always help determine who earns the garlands for innovation.
The collection includes everything from ornaments and stockings to garlands and tree skirts.
Instead of garlands, India's government is welcoming him with a new antitrust case.
Even in the victory processions, the husbands used to get felicitated with garlands!
Inside, beautiful people wait to welcome visitors with chili spiced sangria and flower garlands.
On the coffered ceiling, garlands, stars and swoops of stucco harmonize in intricate patterns.
But the more dramatic among them decked themselves in ivy garlands and American-flag capes.
There's a picture in there of two boys in Bampton, Oxfordshire, with garlands of flowers.
There's all the familiar millennial wedding fare, like Cunningham's spaghetti-strap gown and crystal garlands.
But the hotel also decorates its premises with thousands of Christmas lights, ornaments, and garlands.
Along the main walkway, we passed a seven-headed naga statue draped with yellow garlands.
Alongside these came paper garlands and decorative Christmas stockings, as well as painted tin toys.
Even the garlands that the bride and groom wore during the ceremony were made of satin.
Amazon is reportedly planning on selling live Christmas trees — and wreaths and garlands — starting in November.
There were shops blasting Hindi music and selling garlands of bright flowers, Ganesh figurines, and incense.
He's responsible for all of my house decorations — flowers, garlands, fireplaces — and, most importantly, my trees.
Next, the family stopped over in Thailand, where they were welcomed with gorgeous traditional flower garlands.
Boughs, wreaths, and garlands are allowed through U.S. Customs and Border Protection, but under specific conditions.
They're using fake spider webs, orange garlands, pumpkin decorations, and more to create the elaborate trees.
"Live magnolia garlands and wreaths are great because they'll last the whole season," Ms. Williams said.
Garlands of dried herring tied up with braided grass hang outside the doors of many homes.
Men in traditional skirts with garlands of leaves and flowers lined up waiting to perform a ceremony.
Marigold garlands are used as offerings to Hindu deities as well as for decorative purposes during Diwali.
The honorees were set apart by their rainbow-colored garlands, which they wore proudly throughout the evening.
The work here, sprinkled and poured on the floor, includes salt, flowers, syrup, tinsel garlands — and antifreeze.
For the holiday season, Magic Kingdom gets decked out with about 590 garlands and nearly 150 wreaths.
Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.
There were 250 people watching, in a tent decorated with garlands and wreaths, when I got onstage.
She makes cinnamon and applesauce ornaments with her kids and she strings popcorn and cranberries for garlands.
If they adorned a dancer's neck with several garlands, it was a sign they would be regulars.
A Nepalese woman picks marigold flowers to make garlands during the Diwali festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Oct.
The coaches of this train are decked up with beautiful images of diyas (oil filled lamps) and garlands.
We walked out of the venue, barefoot and together, struggling under pounds of fabric and necklaces and garlands.
Modi met leaders from his ruling alliance, receiving garlands and shawls from them in a show of optimism.
Both wore custom garlands and leashes from Amaryllis Floral and Event Design on nude rope collars and leashes.
While some Hong Kong residents welcomed the military with garlands and waving flags, others said they were worried.
The elves preassemble garlands and wreaths and complicated decorations there, in heavy coats because the heat doesn't really work.
Complete with beaded garlands, shabby-chic stockings, and of course, many candles that we can only assume smell amazing.
It is also decorated with garlands of ivy, which is a nod to their Kensington Palace home, Ivy Cottage.
The china is decorated with garlands of ivy, which is a nod to their Kensington Palace home, Ivy Cottage.
He has an annoying habit of weaving fussy patrimonial garlands linking his subjects to mostly dead, mostly male masters.
His devotees fling garlands, coins and even banknotes when he makes an entrance on-screen, back or boot first.
The prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, laid garlands of marigold on the white and red coffins, one by one.
While it's tempting to start shopping for ornaments and garlands right now, consider waiting until later in the season.
The governor of the province then placed colorful garlands around their necks and traditional pakol hats on their heads.
It includes thousands of tiny twinkling lights, massive garlands adorning the walls, and that aforementioned forest full of trees.
Rising smoke from the pop-up barbecue stands faded around beautiful women with garlands of flowers in their hair.
Those involved in the rescue were give large garlands made from marigolds as navy officers and proud civilians stood by.
Visitors adorned its arms with white flower garlands; performers clad in gold Khmer ensembles sprinkled petals toward its missing feet.
For an additional demonstration on making fairy garlands and wands, families can stop by the garden shop from 2111 a.m.
You'll also find colorful garlands, festive figurines, unique takes on Christmas trees, and even a selection of holiday-ready records.
"Those who attack, do they come with garlands of flowers around their necks?" he said, sharing videos showing unarmed protesters.
Rip, my older brother, stared in awe at the Vietnamese women as they put garlands of flowers around our necks.
On clear nights, the velvety black sky is sprayed with stars and hung with greenish garlands of ghostly northern lights.
These reveal a new world made from orange-peel garlands and ornaments fashioned from dried apples and dehydrated citrus slices.
A bathtub surrounded by fake ivy garlands and flower petals proved so popular that the founders added a second one.
The tradition started in 1992, when Maine wreath-maker Morrill Worcester wanted to put his surplus holiday garlands to good use.
The couple exchanges vibrant floral garlands during the jaimala to symbolize their desire to spend the rest of their lives together.
The bride and groom are done up in full traditional Indian wedding gear, with garlands of flowers and tons of jewelry.
Pragya Singh Thakur, wearing garlands and the saffron robes of a Hindu ascetic, is a candidate for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
On their way down the mountain, several mourners broke off pieces of stray ice that clung in garlands to the rocks.
I did what I had watched my mother do for years: I hung garlands and big red bows on every doorway.
Sparkling Christmas garlands arched over Southern Boulevard, home to Wishna's Toy Store and Kresge's, where Mami worked at the lunch counter.
Clients overcome with desire during a performance would wrap the garlands around their wrists and inhale deeply to calm their nerves.
Its theme was "military patriotism," and it involved dozens of teenagers lounging around in tents, wrestling, carving wood and making garlands.
These days she's as much campfires and kaftans and flower garlands and living off the land as she is Cartier bracelets.
As they ambled downward in autumn, the local cows were celebrated with flower garlands and town festivities—a cow parade called transhumance.
Frida Kahlo is almost as well-known for her flamboyant style and colorful flower garlands as she is for her iconic artwork.
Volunteers and diners had erected and decorated a gazebo frame with blue and white paper garlands and strings of battery-powered lights.
Children can make art, including frog masks, pinwheels, flower garlands, prayer flags and rain sticks (percussion instruments said to sound like rain).
Still, he remained a hero to his supporters and was showered with rose petals and garlands during some of his court appearances.
Inscriptions in Russian and Arabic on some of garlands said they were sent by President al-Assad, Syrian ministers and military commanders.
Not 48 hours after the turkey has been carved, the lights are strung, the wreath is hung and garlands wrap the windows.
Metal garlands festooning the stadium once held swastikas; the Soviet Union knocked out the Nazi symbols but kept the nonpolitical decorative elements.
They are strung together as garlands for ceremonies and festivals or worn as an ornament behind the ear on any given day.
Sinha, a Harvard graduate and a former consultant for McKinsey & Company, draped the men in marigold garlands and presented them with sweets.
And yet the temples of both men are crowned with floral garlands, a unifying gesture that suggests nuptials more than filial devotion.
Goats and cows chewed on garlands of marigold flowers left behind from funeral rites, and beggars and sages hung around looking for alms.
Fellow Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, meanwhile, scared everyone planning to attend a music festival with the singer's ban on flower garlands.
As well as going to school, some of the children still work, cleaning prawns and helping load and unload boats and selling garlands.
Buildings across the city are decorated in charming garlands and wreaths, and each year Charleston holds its annual Holiday Market in Marion Square.
The female inmates of the harem become a vast and intricate dance bower, with flowers, garlands, bouquets, and even, in some productions, topiary.
Brace yourself for skull garlands, chalices made of femurs, and an epic chandelier artfully comprised of every single bone in the human body.
Williams also shared a picture of her and Alexis Olympia on Instagram with a special Christmas filter that added poinsettia garlands to their hair.
Disneyland brings even more holiday cheer to Main Street with an additional 220 garlands and approximately 80 wreaths wrapped along storefronts, lampposts and rooftops.
They are the ones who should be receiving garlands of praise for all they have done, and not dealing with any innuendo and rumor.
Decorated with mahogany flower garlands, the sky-blue train parked at the sleepy station in Jalore could be mistaken for a new passenger train.
Type "Hanukkah tasteful not tacky" into Pinterest and you get oodles of ideas for decorative cookies, clever ways to use gelt and Hanukkah garlands.
And Holiday Must-Haves Sale: Now through 11/7, take up to 80% off holiday must-haves – garlands & greenery, trimmings for the tree, and more!
But others are occupied with activities that have gone on unchanged for centuries: Women weave flowers into garlands; men burn incense; fishermen mend their nets.
Williams, 36, also shared a picture of her and Alexis Olympia on Instagram with a special Christmas filter that added poinsettia garlands to their hair.
In these bins, shoppers can find seasonal socks, candles, office supplies, candy, bubbles, thank you cards, stationery sets, garlands, gift wrap, storage containers and more.
Thousands of people, many carrying flowers, marched in a funeral procession around the capital with Koirala's body mounted on a truck festooned with marigold garlands.
The singer John Legend adds some soul-sprinkled bells and garlands to his catalogue with his recently released collection of original and traditional Christmas confections.
With its islands and stone bridges and garlands of tiny white Christmas lights, Stockholm looks and feels like the perfect setting for a fairy tale.
When he arrived in Helmand Province a couple of years ago, he was greeted with garlands of flowers and boarded in a V.I.P. government guesthouse.
Prime Minister K.P. Oli paid tributes to victims by placing marigold garlands on the wooden coffins which were then handed over to the relatives for funerals.
From fuzzy pillows to emotive art, funky ceramic planters, gilded lamps, garlands, and even a hot pink llama-shaped keyboard duster, this animal knows no bounds.
There are a few other visual pleasures, like moving sculptures that evoke a kinetic approach to Art Brut and garlands that dangle duodenally from the ceiling.
In Islamabad's markets Monday, florists standing amid large heart-shaped garlands of roses and bouquets of daffodils and jasmine were worried by the effects of the ban.
The couple wed Saturday in Palm Springs, in a confetti-themed celebration complete with colorful garlands and place settings and Funfetti cake, according to Martha Stewart Weddings.
The floral-and-weed garlands worn by the children in key scenes "we found on the side of the road wherever we happened to be," she said.
In the Red Room, ornaments displaying the logo for Melania Trump's Be Best campaign — a children's wellness and anti-bullying initiative launched earlier this year — adorn garlands.
Meanwhile, Rodarte made its triumphant return with a collection of otherworldly gowns and garlands of real roses that was paraded through the New York City Marble Cemetery.
Some worked from Europe, like the Russian polymath Léon Bakst, who created a black fabric gridded with flower garlands for the Robinson Silk Company in New York.
The historical sections are delivered in starchily ornate prose ("Yuletide garlands appeared to perspire in the gaslights") that reeks of orange rinds, rose petals and cinnamon sticks.
Reena Mahendra Shah, the groom's sister, took part in the ceremony, performing Hindu marriage traditions including the lighting of a candle and the exchange of floral garlands.
Greeted by the lively sound of Lezim drums and colorful dancers, Will and Kate were given flower garlands and placed petals in the water during a traditional ceremony.
People cheered as the 250-wagon locomotive, decorated with flower garlands, made its way into the railway yard where 2600 million liters of water will start being decanted.
Melbourne (CNN)The happy couple wore matching cream flower garlands in their hair but, although they were married in front of thousands of witnesses, their union isn't legal.
Groups of children were playing in the shallows of the river, and women clustered in circles at the water's edge, preparing offerings of coconuts, fruit, and marigold garlands.
The boys bowed their heads and gave flower garlands to the monks of the Wat Phra That Doi Tung temple, and had sacred white thread wrapped around their wrists.
But even he appeared to struggle under the sheer weight of the garlands and tributes that were hung around his neck during a trek in the mountains of Nepal.
Some of the most impressive artworks from Rajput artists were assembled into ragamala, or "garlands of ragas": albums of miniatures that depict passionate lovers, usually alone with musical instruments.
Its annual Christmas event allows guests to view a giant 55-foot decorated spruce tree on the front lawn, 60 elaborate hand-decorated trees, wreaths, garlands, lights and more.
Already the pole-mounted snowflake garlands are up in parts of Brooklyn, and down jackets of various lengths and thicknesses have been pulled out of storage, or procured anew.
Nor does the fact that he was imperfect, that he stayed on too long, that he departs not with garlands but regrets, mean he does not warrant a statue.
In July of last year, a B.J.P. minister invited to his home eight men who had been convicted in such a lynching and presented them with garlands and sweets.
Come December, hotels around the country cover their gardens with Christmas lights, line their banisters with garlands, and place expertly decorated Christmas trees in the center of their lobbies.
For strings of lights and garlands, use zip ties to avoid tangles and put them in plastic bags labeled according to use (tree lights, porch lights, balcony, bushes, etc.).
The garlands around the middle of the cake were chosen to match the details of the room where it was displayed for the wedding, the Picture Gallery in Buckingham Palace.
Actors are dressed in bright colours, the room is covered in garlands; and as the camera starts rolling, a large Indian family banters with boisterous Punjabi echoing in the dialogue.
Wreaths, garlands, and other holiday items will also be sold, with Amazon giving customers the option to choose a convenient delivery date when they'll be around to receive the items.
Accessories were a key element to the show, with boots draped in MOSCHINO garlands, life-size CD-ROM earrings, MOSCHINO padlock purses, extravagant gold chain necklaces, and (so much) more.
Gallman told Insider that strands of berry garlands are great to display on a mantle or to string along your staircase, especially if you intertwine them with some faux garland.
Down the block, the owners of Vapiano, a pasta joint, had wrapped the poles of the scaffolding outside their building with faux pine garlands and created a wall of ivy.
The arts and sciences, he wrote, were "garlands of flowers over the chains which weigh [men] down," and "our minds have been corrupted in proportion" as human knowledge has increased.
Typically, residential customers order a 28-foot tree, "decorated where you go, 'Wow' when you walk in," as well as garlands for their railings, a couple of wreaths, and a centerpiece.
After the sporting session in the park, the couple visited the city's ancient Banganga water tank, where they were greeted with dancers, and presented with garlands to scatter on the water.
A member of his cabinet presented garlands of flowers to a group of Hindu men who had been convicted of lynching a Muslim for selling beef (cows are sacred to Hindus).
There, the iconic orange cones appear to be decked out with garlands, and visitors who order the new candy cane-flavored churro also get a side of crème anglaise for dipping.
In the Green and Red rooms, visitors can find a seasonal ode to Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" anti-childhood obesity initiative, with wreaths made of lemons and garlands created using limes.
In "Cosmic Generator (working title)" (2017), a feast of carnivalesque imagery and absurdist storytelling, visitors walk through an abandoned Asian bodega filled with inflatable pineapples, tinsel garlands, and other plastic gadgetry.
We need to hang garlands, drape twinkling lights, put up the mistletoe and holly, turn the amaryllis so it gets better light and blooms big next weekend, to welcome St. Nick.
In a new partnership with the luxury jeweler stores in the three cities will have Swarovski-themed decorations, including crystal-encrusted garlands and 130 lbs of crystal stardust in New York.
These movies are the equivalent of a cheap, plastic menorah at a holiday party full of lush garlands and Christmas trees — a well-intentioned attempt at inclusion that ultimately falls flat.
The "Feast of the Rose Garlands" (1606-12), Metzger argues, answered contemporary critics who charged that Dürer was less adept at painting, and upon its completion commissions in paint notably increased.
In a celebration hosted by Rahimullah Khan, the deputy police chief of Oruzgan, Wasil was the center of attention, wearing a baggy police uniform with garlands of plastic flowers around his neck.
Victor Laloux's masterpiece, completed, like the Grand Palais, for the 1900 Universal Exposition, has a huge blond masonry base festooned with large arched windows, frilly stone garlands and classical balustrades and pediments.
Comedian George Jessel apparently saw the audience laughing at their name and suggested they change it to Garland, either after film critic Robert Garland or a just plain garlands of flowers. 22017.
PARIS — The festive holiday lights of Paris sparkled from store fronts and Christmas garlands, arched over roads and the Eiffel Tower, twinkled over the River Seine and through an inky black sky.
As is tradition, volunteers from all 50 states descended on the White House like elves, hanging the 800 feet of garlands, tying 15,000 bows and stringing more than 2,500 strands of lights.
The couple exchanges vibrant floral garlands during the jaimala to symbolize their desire to spend the rest of their lives together, as well as the love and respect they have for one another.
The piece's ornaments are meant to reference floral garlands, and it functioned both as a religious and spiritual symbol and as a literal manifestation of the wealth a bride brought to her marriage.
These more cerebral aspects of "Hystopia" — the much anticipated first novel by a veteran short-story writer — can weigh the book down, like too-heavy ornaments and garlands on a spindly Christmas tree.
"Normally I would still be out there fishing for the next 15 days or so," he said as two mates unloaded wooden traps laced with brown garlands of seaweed that hung like tinsel.
After Friday's service, some in the crowd wandered across the park to Al Noor mosque, where mounds of flowers, paper garlands and mementos encircled trees and sat piled against the mosque's front fence.
The decorations include thousands of twinkling lights, garlands adorning the walls, and plenty of huge evergreen trees — as well as a 20-foot-high Nordmann Fir Christmas tree in St George&aposs Hall.
The alleyways of the Heera Mandi entertainment district, set within the crumbling walls of Lahore's old city, spilled over with dancers, musicians and children who hawked garlands of bright orange marigolds to customers.
The mahogany bar, intricately carved with garlands and horse and elephant heads, is a copy of the one at the Lillie's near Union Square, which was brought over from Gosford Castle in Northern Ireland.
As you drive through the narrow, dusty streets of Sehwan, the air becomes perfumed with the scent of roses, sold in small plastic bags and body-length garlands that devotees lay at his tomb.
Few politicians have established such a connection with the millions of underprivileged families in Mexico as Lopez Obrador, a baseball fan who regularly campaigns festooned with garlands, flowers and gaudy sombreros from provincial rural communities.
The venture had its genesis in September 2014, when Ms. Hadid attended the opening of her Wangjing Soho project in Beijing, a three-tower complex of curvaceous, mountain-like forms and linear garlands of light.
The garden paths found form in trellis shapes decked with garlands of multicolored sapphires or diamond-encrusted sprays, like the water jetting from the famous fountains of Versailles, all to accent ears, wrists and throats.
She goes to a school run by charity The Door Step, which was set up for kids who would otherwise be working in the fish industry, selling garlands or collecting rubbish for barely $5 a day.
At that, the Balsaras, until now engaged in deep prayer at the back of the room, rushed forward and shouted to the attendants over the temple music that they wanted to take the discarded garlands home.
I stepped inside to find a baker's paradise: cookie cutters; candy molds; icing tools; edible glitter; pastry fillings; cake stencils; sprinkles; ribbons; blocks of fondant icing; and sugar paste sculptures of garlands, cherubs, fruits and flowers.
"They'd do well to ditch the crowns, scepters and garlands of invaluable gems and jewels, and dress the part of your average Canuck," the self-described anti-monarchist Canadian John Semley wrote in Britain's Guardian newspaper.
I realized, on the one hand, how lithe the IOC has been over the years in adapting to the prevailing winds, for finding new justifications, new allies, new kind of ideological garlands to hang around the Olympics.
Now, after trying several times to fulfill their vows to kill each other, the father and son were embracing and exchanging garlands of plastic flowers in the northern province of Faryab, where their battle had played out.
"I feel comfortable here but of course not like at home," said 20-year-old Mayar Ballish who served falafel sandwiches from a wooden hut decorated with festive fir tree garlands, red bows and white fairy lights.
With Ionic columns for legs, garlands of foliage carved from purpleheart wood, Renaissance-referencing flourishes, and Arts and Crafts-style cutouts on its music stand, the Schastey piano is a collision of influences, a frenzy of Aestheticism.
Instead, Stein gives a sort of aerial view of five Los Angeles clans that amassed fortunes in the 20th century: the Dohenys, the Warners, the Garlands, the Selznicks and Stein's own family — her father, Jules Stein, founded MCA.
Harry, who wore khaki trousers and blue shirt, and Meghan, in an ankle-length striped dress, had kicked off their shoes to sit with members of community group OneWave, whose members wore brightly-colored shirts and flower garlands.
At Walker Street, a large Christmassy cone of evergreen swags recreates the ritual garlands placed on topped-out buildings in Switzerland; it is surrounded by full-length portraits of men named for the Three Magi from the East.
The 1,400 or so attendees, who will have paid 1,0003 euros to 5,000 euros (about $1,2000 and $220,21984) to attend, will make their way into foyers filled with bouquets and garlands where champagne and canapés will be served.
The pages keep turning, the language is lyrical and lovely, and many phrases call for pause and appreciation: "Garlands of jasmine, plump as pillows" is the kind of image that stays with you, despite its "exotic India" framework.
The tagimoucia's peak flowering season of November and December coincides with school's end, so the flower is a "hot commodity" for graduation garlands, said Hao-Li Lin, an anthropologist who completed his Ph.D. thesis on conservation in Taveuni.
It took nearly two days for me to get from Katmandu to the village of Talo Chipla in the foothills of the Annapurna Himalayan mountain range, where villagers welcomed me with flower garlands and an orange Buddhist prayer scarf.
According to Meduza, the company charged the city nearly five times the actual cost for dozens of illuminated garlands in the shape of champagne flutes: about thirty-seven thousand dollars instead of eight thousand dollars for each light fixture.
The colorful spectacle — with its golden spires, vermilion-costumed soldiers, marigold garlands, saffron-robed monks and royal guards in crimson hats — contrasted with the somber mood of a nation that has mourned ever since King Bhumibol's death on Oct.
I'll admit that my heart sank a bit when I first stepped into this cheery mise-en-scène (designed by Tom Burch), which features a thatched-roof bar, a couple of inflatable kiddie pools and garlands of fairy lights.
On the cobblestone streets of Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade, guests will be surrounded by the magic of the holidays, from unique garlands and lights to special holiday-themed food and performances by the Frog Choir and Celestina Warbeck and the Banshees.
Time to ditch the Christmas tree if you bought one, take down the garlands and lights, put away those huge platters you used for roasts these last few weeks, banish thoughts of creamy mashed potatoes and luscious year-end cakes.
With garlands lining Main Street, trees outfitted with all the trimming, and festive cheer abounding, big-time Disney fans may be wondering how the park decorates its castle or just how high those towering tire trees in Cars Land are.
In addition to many flower garlands, this Ganesh wears a 33-pound necklace of pure gold, the gift of an anonymous donor in 2008, said Ganesh Mathur, who was among those in charge of the Khetwadi Cha Ganraj this year.
For the show, she unearthed a textile design from the museum's archives, a dainty motif of birds, flowers and garlands thought to have been made around 1775 for France's royal house, possibly used in the private rooms of Marie Antoinette.
And you may not want to use your co-op's holiday display as an example of stellar fire-safety measures, because the New York City Fire Department prohibits live Christmas trees and decorations, like garlands, in common areas of buildings.
An Armed Police dog handler decorates his K9 colleague with color, petals, and flower garlands at the Armed Police Dog Training School during a dog worship day that is celebrated as part of the Diwali festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Oct. 27.
As investigators went through the apartment, 5A, on Monday morning, the door still had an abundance of Christmas decorations: pictures of Santa and snowmen; red, gold and blue garlands; and a portion of a wall covered in wrapping paper decorated with red bells.
He'd cobbled together most of his savings and gifts from relatives, a stack of 1503,000 rupees (about $4,400) in cash, and had a list of vendors to pay in the weeks before exchanging garlands of flowers with his bride in a Dec.
A metal plate to do aarti, hosting a small clay or metal diya lamp, figurines of the worshipper's gods, garlands of flowers (real or plastic), and incense can often all be purchased in the same shops that sell Bollywood DVDs and samosas.
"Like a complete nincompoop, I thought that people would absolutely fall over me with garlands and roses, people in Calcutta, if I came and told them that I'm going to settle the score and I'm going to expose this lady," he said.
In some cases young girls being initiated into the practice have to be bare-chested with only garlands and jewels covering them, while in others they are made to carry pots of liquor as part of the celebrations, child rights campaigners added.
Cheerful seasonal accents like ceramic bells, high-end candles, and wreaths and garlands in faux eucalyptus, juniper and cedar abound in the living and bedroom, while the dining area is set with things like a green plaid charcuterie board and brass napkin rings.
"Your greatest desire, Madame," the fortuneteller said once again, as a trio of giggling woodland nymphs sailed through gaps in the foliage — floral garlands on their heads, Champagne flutes in their hands and all clad in the frothiest and twinkliest of ball gowns.
But it&aposs unfortunate that these movies turned out to be the equivalent of a cheap, plastic menorah at a holiday party full of lush garlands and Christmas trees — a well-intentioned attempt at inclusion that ultimately highlights the disparity even more.
"We also purchased all of her favorite flowers at the local flower mart and made the arrangements ourselves," Alba adds of the décor, which also included tassel garlands and gold picture frames from Target and balloon string, gold paper straws and stationery from Paper Source.
Written and directed by James Hadley, and performed on a sparkly set (by Genevieve Lizotte) that's lushly curtained with garlands, "'Twas" contains a faint "Nutcracker" echo in its ostensibly central character, Isabella (Michele Clark), a girl whisked off to a dreamscape where fantastical events unfold.
On a catwalk made to look like a snow-covered mountain, models in furry hats and goggle-like glasses descended from a peak carrying bags with colourful handwoven leather straps, structured backpacks and small purses, all adorned with clipped-on garlands, sparkly butterflies and layered hearts.
The ornamentation is neoclassical — images of urns and decorative garlands — so not surprising (if you look up at the buildings in Harlem), but she uses thread to devise shadows, highlights, and form, and when you get close to the work, you see how intricate it is.
A version of that show, "Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving," at the Brooklyn Museum this year, is focused largely on Kahlo's wardrobe and accouterments, not least the painter's penchant for piling on rings, layering weighty chokers and silver bangles, and weaving garlands through her hair.
So powerful is the legacy of Ferguson, so deep-seated the obsession with mind games, that it has taken a while to realize that there are no thorns hidden among the garlands, to remember that praise can have a function other than piling pressure on an opponent.
Return to Earth next door with a sundowner cocktail or glass of wine (5 euros) at La Javelle, a carnivalesque Seine-side sprawl of food trucks, concert stages and open-air bars — including a moored party barge — interspersed with garlands of colored lights and thrift-store furniture.
Among the few viable businesses in the region are those that make the thousands of fresh flower garlands needed to drape pillars, or supply cooks to simmer gallons of curry with the spice mix particular to Chettinad: Indonesian nutmeg, Madagascar cloves, blue ginger from Laos or Vietnam.
The interior may be even more stunning than the beautiful exterior; imagine Marie Antoinette's boudoir and you get the picture: Pudgy pastel putti look down from the ceiling on a frothy collection of sparkling glass vitrines, hung with gilded garlands and bows and displaying more glitter inside.
The stepladder was still up in the hall where my husband had been attaching red and white garlands; the tree had turned brown and brittle; ornaments had slid off the drooping branches and shattered on the floor; 11 little cardboard windows remained unopened on the advent calendar.
Against the backdrop of the poem, multiple photos of Beyoncé were published on her website: in lacy underthings with garlands entwined in her Pre-Raphaelite hair, submerged like a mermaid with scarves trailing around her, next to a bust of Nefertiti amid the grasses of Demeter.
Our science writer considers examples that range in size from grapes to five-story townhouses and can produce garlands of flowers — and warns of illegal cactus rustling, a big business in the southwest U.S. Modern vanity plates have nothing on the simplicity of the original license plate.
Kate and Prince William were again greeted in traditional style with red tika dots and flower garlands as they arrived at the Salaam Baalak Trust in New Delhi, a charity that rescues and supports children arriving in the city alone or living on the streets, often in the railways.
Every Friday morning since that day six years ago, a group of people dressed in bright colors or wearing colorful garlands has sat at the southern end of Bondi Beach in what is called an "anti-bad vibes circle" to discuss depression, anxiety and living with mental illness.
When Bezos last visited the country in the fall of 2014, he dressed in a sherwani, traditional Indian festive attire, and posed for pictures standing atop a truck festooned with garlands, holding an oversized check for $2 billion, the amount Amazon had invested in India at the time.
The marvelous Bone Garden is "an open-air curiosity cabinet" with the bleached skulls, ribs, tibias and femurs of donkeys, goats, rabbits, sheep, cats and dogs nailed to tree trunks; garlands of jawbones and fringes of vertebrae are draped over branches, and there's a totem pole for dancing around.
In April 1996, the Garlands were hosting Attorney General Janet Reno at a Passover Seder at their home in Bethesda, Md., when Louis J. Freeh, the F.B.I. director, called to report that the bureau had located Theodore J. Kaczynski, the "Unabomber," and that he had a live bomb, Ms. Gorelick said.
In 1918, he announced to the French state that he would donate some of those images for a major installation that he called his "Grandes Décorations," consisting of many continuous panels of water lily paintings, and, above them, a series of canvases showing garlands of wisteria, as a decorative crown.
The market surrounds the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which was badly damaged by bombs during World War II. The market consists of rows of temporary wooden stalls with walls painted brown or dark red and roofs of red and white striped fabric, many with garlands of evergreens, with lights strung above.
And there was none of the apocalyptic energy that often reverberated through their New York shows; the only hint of deconstruction were the wreaths of baby's breath that were laced with ribbons throughout the models' hair or worn as garlands and even headdresses, which wiggled delicately and sometimes fell to the floor.
Each has interlocking terra cotta roof tiles, French double-shuttered windows evenly spaced across the facade, ornate garlands of molded plasterwork and sheltered "five foot" connected walkways — a feature to protect pedestrians from rain or hot sun that was called for by Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore's first town plan in 1822.
But when I step out from my white-cube apartment, I find a different kind of pleasure that's equally thrilling: My New York neighborhood is full of Victorian tenements covered in a riot of decoration, from carved heads and scallop shells to flower garlands and twisting columns that don't hold anything up.
The Savitts, for instance, fell for the Chatsworth, a 1904 Beaux-Arts apartment building at 344 West 72nd Street, facing Riverside Park, with a brick-and-limestone facade resplendent in cherubs, elk heads, human busts and garlands, which is being converted to a co-op with condo-like bylaws by HFZ Capital Group.
Each year, the White House puts out a call for volunteers, asking for applicants who can be available in Washington -- typically over the Thanksgiving holiday -- to hang and tinsel the more than 2000,26 ornaments, 2000,24-plus yards of holiday ribbon and 2000,22 feet of garlands, and cap off each one of the 183 trees.
Mr. Najib's stepdaughter, Azrene Ahmad, took to Instagram on Friday with an emotional condemnation of him and her mother, Rosmah Mansor, who had become widely known here for piling up designer labels, garlands of jewelry and a multimillion-dollar handbag collection that more than rivaled the shoe fetish of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines.
These aren't the well-connected elite observing at a distance from the VIP, the face-painted neo-hippies, or even the EDC crossover kids gloving and flitting about during Jack Ü. These are the kids in backwards caps and cargo shorts, in flower garlands and cut-offs purchased from H&M's Coachella Collection in hopes of being mistaken for one of the VIPs.
Pictured in this tweet were four of the company's items: Christmas Tree Cakes, conifer-shaped sponges of vanilla dipped in white icing and drizzled with red icing garlands and green sprinkles; the Nutty Buddy, fudge-encased peanut butter wafers; Oatmeal Creme Pies, those coagulated discs of cream sandwiched between two oatmeal cookies; and Honey Buns, glazed spirals of honey and cinnamon pastries.
Among the holiday flair featured as part of the theme honoring the "unique heritage of America": a forest of 22019 red topiary trees greeting guests in the East Colonnade, an 18-foot official White House Christmas tree adorned with more than 500 feet of blue velvet ribbon, and an ode to American-grown produce with fruit and vegetable-filled garlands.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads   You'd wish you had a-listened  to some of the things I said —Jimmy Reed no matter which cocktails you consume in air -conditioned nations we understand ourselves best through the fruit of our homeland especially one oft mistaken for a nut says a farmer taking a picture of me melted on an islet eating a kernel of truth as the blue ocean welcomes a muddy river with Sargassum seaweed garlands   *   *   * Karthik Purushothaman comes from Chennai, India, and taught at William Paterson University and New Jersey City University after earning his MFA.

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