..a Memory bottled!

What do you get back from your ‪#‎travel‬..

For most of us an important ritual of traveling includes shopping. The haul includes for some- more shoes and dresses and bags, to perhaps couple of artifacts to carry back home as souvenir. With us, considering the amount we are on the road; we have to go easy on the shopping bit. But of course we rarely fail to bring back one or the other souvenir from the places we have been to. Mostly we tend to pick up little curio or artifacts that are unique to that place . This time from each place we visited, we decide to pick up something on behalf of Môu as she herself was too young to select and perhaps.. also too young to remember much of the trip itself! We thought it should be something unique to that place; something that she can connect later to her subconscious memories! 

We were in Europe towards the end of 'fall 'and our little girl was enthralled by the vibrant colours of ‪#‎autumn‬ all around. Where-ever we stopped, she would get busy collecting the leaves.. I carried a few leaves back with me; thinking would put them up on her scrapbook for her to look back at, someday.
But than the other day this idea came to me.. partly by a line I read - 'what is your favourite travel memory' ? I knew what was mine but how to keep it alive and vibrant..
Thus started my first attempt at ‪#‎decoupage‬

~ And here it is- adorning an empty ‪#‎bottle‬ of honey from ‪#‎Cherapunjee‬, corked with a charming hand painted marble top- picked up from a little roadside shop in ‪#‎IsolaPescatori‬ (Italy), with few pebbles lying at it's bottom- 'the Autumn leaf' from our last day in Strasbourg, picked up by Môu as we were walking toward the station.Yes, the pebbles at the bottom of the bottle are also the 'first ever picked' by our little girl from the seashore...

A memory Bottle :)

It is not something we bought from a place but it is a bit of that place and a bit of us in there- 'together' -a memory bottled! Every time I pass that bottle; the scene of Môu collecting leaves, playing on beach.. flashes through my mind's eye.


-24th december 2015