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The following article has been written by Katan, a dear friend of us who is probably the greatest Kaori Yuki fan we know of. She also helped us edit our first book, "Just a Little taste of Journey". Here is her lovely tumblr and her blog. This is the link to the original article.
I'd like to believe everybody has sources of inspiration. Not necessarily leading to creativity; just those little triggers of thoughts and emotions to go with your morning coffee, a boring ride in the bus and your gradual fall into sleep. Some have few, others have many, some search hard to track them down and others just bump into them. Some lucky ones realize at first touch that what they have found had magically been calling them.
Needless to say what my missing piece of the puzzle was. Because when I first read Angel Sanctuary, it felt like the first time I truly knew art.
It begins with the…
Chapter One: Art
Kaori Yuki's art is otherwordly. You open her manga to find faces so beautiful that realism has lost all meaning. It is not just the angels whose celestial nature calls for a fitting appearance. It is also a student, isolated and mocked by everyone, whose expression channels all emotions swirling within him, rendering the reader unable to take his eyes off him.
And when the story opens the curtains to the deepest part of its world, the reader's eyes perceive the depth, and usually the majestic nature of the space where the characters move and breathe. The "stage" of each scene is designed and depicted in great detail, forcing the "viewer" to stop at many pages in order to observe the full extent of the picture and let it sink in. This is one of the factors that has led to the –incomprehensible to me really- complaints for "overloaded" art. In my opinion, it is rather amazing how places of great height and surface are captured in black-and-white comic strips, and never fail to convey their beauty despite their confinement in tiny squares of paper. Kaori Yuki offers powerful snapshots of the world in her head like nobody else; Jibril's garden, Etemenanki, Hell, the residence of Hargreaves, the world of Fairies, let yourself carried away in their view and you will feel a bit of the awe of stepping your foot into them.
People are going to argue about her earlier works and their evident aesthetic flaws. Clearly, Erii from her debut work looks nothing like Fairy Cube's Rin… but as artists grow and evolve, so does their work and personally, I think "observing" the course of that evolution is one of a true fan's biggest delights.
The best way to instill an impression on the progress on both her art and stories is to observe Cain, the main character of the Cain Saga. You'd hardly recognize the Earl of the first Cain Series as the "Godchild" of the sequel:
Reading through the entire series you watch the gothic art (that I still adore) ascend from simplicity to perfection, along with Cain himself growing out of his past into maturity. As chapters go by, the plot thickens, the characters' psychology comes to surface and their finally revealed complexity coincides with the stunning visual outcome of a now fully blossomed talent.
However, the most important factors have always been there from the beginning. Soul. Identity. Feelings. Her stories have always been speaking to you, even through less refined characters. Cain may have grown up, but he has always been Cain.
Chapter Two: Story
It is common knowledge among people familiar with Kaori Yuki's name that her stories are not everyone's cup of tea. Elements needed for their proper appreciation are a certain attraction to darkness, a genuinely open mind, an eagerness to abolish the boundaries of your world and try to stick to another during your reading hours. There will be incest, abuse, unhealthy obsession and a generous dose of cruelty. Yet, you will also see true love, unbreakable bonds, hope and unbelievable inner strength. If you're the type to get carried away by fiction, there will probably be moments when you'll find yourself hurting with inexplicable warmth in your chest, and tears may roll down the crack of your smile. Life's full of emotional conflict. And so are her manga.
In the more technical aspect of the plot, despite recurring themes like forbidden relationships, dark pasts, destruction, possessiveness, the ever-present mystery is so deftly weaved that you never know what to expect. Even if a plot twist was vaguely foreseen by the hardcore fans, the next one lurking in the next pages won't be. And when suddenly all the answers (or not?) are handed down, the reader begins to recollect in his mind all the minor details that the mangaka, like every skilled storyteller, has planted all over the story. But what Kaori Yuki is truly a master at is building up tension through minor details in such a profound and overwhelming way that when the plot reaches its climax, the reader experiences his own emotional outburst along with the characters. It had probably never occurred to Cain's readers before that the tying of shoe laces could ever be an act of such a dramatic impact and a symbol of abandonment.
Chapter Three: The Characters
Characters, in my opinion, are the very beginning and the end of any story. As mentioned above, most of Kaori Yuki's characters (basically, all except very few… sorry Sandy) are of exceptional beauty and for some of them that creates the impression of "plastic" perfection. In addition to that comes their usually "dramatic" speech, and the combination of those elements along with a fantasy setting puts them in a place seemingly too far away for the reader to "empathize.
Yet, the flaws are bound to arise for each and every of them, sometimes to complete their image, other times to overturn it. The inorganic angel may know and has the power to define the fate of everyone around him, yet understands nothing about his own existence. The same person who shoulders the fate of the world and brought his loved one back from the dead made a grave mistake that led to a tragic personal loss. Suddenly you come to realize that this "fantasy" you're reading about is full of human traits. The setting may be unreal but the feelings springing from it couldn't have been closer to reality, and bits of yours are lying in at least some of the numerous characters. You may have not been confined in the garden of Eden, but you must have felt solitude.
Furthermore, the distinction between good and evil is blurred to the extent that you can't tell them apart. The examples are ample. Angels are fighting over power and politics, while the devil himself has cared for his people. A tyrant wants to purify the world because he has only known the ugly side of it. The doctor who cruelly takes lives in the present had once respected life at his own cost. One has faked loyalty for so long that it became his truth. There's hardly black and white when it comes to fully-developed characters, only different shades of gray. If there's one thing repeatedly emphasized in Yuki-sensei's works, is that even the greatest villain falls prey to his demons, sometimes more apt and "material" than his traumas.
The characters, especially in Angel Sanctuary, are… countless. Yet they're all developed as much as time and space allowed their creator. And they're wonderful. Kaori Yuki has proved that a complete character doesn't take a great number of pages to reveal himself, by bringing out the full scale of Kaine, one of the most twisted and complicated personalities, in merely two chapters.
Many are those who criticize Kaori Yuki's characters as overdramatic. But do keep in mind: they live in their "universe", not yours. And their world itself is full of a tragedy you hope to only see in fiction. And seriously… take a good hard look at the time, place, and the overall setting of their story. Can you really picture Cain saying "Dad, this time I'm gonna shoot your ass" or words such as "Sorry, bro, there was a misunderstanding" coming out of Alexiel's mouth?
Finally, I'd like to address more specifically the matter of the "main" character in Kaori Yuki's manga. I've always been one to be attracted to side characters with little screen time, and this is no different for the manga of my most beloved creator. However, I could not help but note that one of her strongest points is the creation of extremely powerful and, most of all, appropriate main characters for each story. Let's take a look at four different types of main characters.
A. Mudou Setsuna (Angel Sanctuary)
Despite him not being even among my top 5 of Angel Sanctuary favorites, Setsuna is probably the most incredible main character I've ever encountered, showing a very intense and interesting character development.
He is presented as a teenage boy lost in the little selfish world of his romance, who cries and sulks a lot about his personal drama in the beginning of his story. As his true identity and role are revealed, he naturally progresses from denial to acceptance and becomes stronger with each page, gradually evolving into a true hero. Yet, in his course he keeps all of his human emotions intact, he learns from his mistakes but his flaws never magically disappear. Setsuna never becomes a faceless symbol, and even though he acknowledges his role as the Messiah, he refuses to speak and treat others as such, his words still coming from his personal experiences and his human heart.
Setsuna is one of the most realistic characters that could possibly exist in a fictional story, talking to you in words you understand and not from the higher place of a hero. To me he is a symbol of strength and hope, one that teaches you that when you want something you have to turn the world upside down to get it, and that crying is allowed only a while before you rise back on your feet.
B. Cain C. Hargreaves (The Cain Saga)
In contrast to Setsuna's bold honesty, Cain keeps on a façade of maturity throughout his story. He is a boy who was forced into adulthood from a very young age and into a position of nobility and power that is not only surrounded by hypocrisy but also with dangers for his life. In the face of Cain we see a witty noble of admirable intelligence, capable of strategy, plunged in solitude and lack of trust. Unlike Setsuna who is surrounded by friends and openly accepts and appreciates their help, Cain only trusts a single person, his butler Riff, with whom he forms the only solid bond in his life.
At first sight, Cain is a person far more "distant" from the reader than Setsuna, thus his appearance and artbook illustrations present him more "ghostly" and inhuman(despite him actually being a human and not an angel!). Yet, in his relationship with Riff, this image is shattered and the suppressed child rises to surface, often taking the reader aback with the surge of emotion hiding behind his cold mask.
Cain's character development could be considered, in an aspect, reverse to Setsuna's, as his human emotions are more and more obviously unfurled, while his exceptional abilities as the manga's "hero" keep the story going.
C. Prince Ludwig (Ludwig Kakumei)
And here's an example of a main character who is "the story" himself. Ludwig Kakumei is mainly a dark comedy manga, and its prince is exactly that; a hilariously macabre hero.
Since this is a story you'd read to have fun to your heart's content, there's no need for dark pasts and emphasis on character development. Lui is presented as a superficial womanizer with weird hobbies, taking pleasure into harassing his only true follower and the sweetest servant in the fictional realm, Wilhelm.
As the stories go on and your lungs and muscles are being destroyed by excessive laughter, you can't help but notice that the funnily cruel prince has, discreetly or not, helped the "good ending" of every princess he's failed to make his wife. The man who claims to assess women only by the size of their boobs, has ended up boosting their confidence and taking them out of their personal misery. Not to mention him finding true love without fully realizing it in the face of the sleeping beauty.
And last but not least, tiny bits of his care for Will arise, amidst buckets of harassment of course, in many parts of the story, till his more clear "enlightenment" on his servant's role in his life in the last volume.
It seems that even in a good comedy, character development is inevitable. Lui's consists of both himself and us learning that he is not as shallow as we initially thought.
D. Lucille (Grand Guignol Orchestra)
The leader of the Grand Guignol Orchestra, in my eyes at least, doesn't undergo any great change as a personality throughout his story. He appears bright, positive, funny and heartwarming and he truly is all that, and stays so. And yet, the reader is constantly warned by the other characters surrounding him of hidden cruelty and darkness that seem highly unlikely for him.
As you read further down GGO's chapters, you begin to figure out that Lucille is exactly the "man" you thought him to be and it is the other characters that need to develop in order to truly see him as such. Meeting Lucille has been a turning point for all characters; in each chapter you get to see how each of them used to be before and the changes that encounter sets in motion within them. Changing their view on Lucille equals understanding a part of themselves, their needs and their feelings, the "darkness" of him, in fact, reflecting their own unresolved issues.
What do all of these characters have in common?
While being drastically different people, with entirely different courses and backgrounds, they brighten the world around them, making the people they encounter better and stronger, while embracing change themselves. (1)
For me, Kaori Yuki's manga leave a taste of sweetness and iron. They bring you face to face with inevitable truths, like the fact that everybody's carrying wounds from his past that are continuously "eating" his present. That loss is a part of life you'll eventually have to deal with. That sometimes you only see past your true friend's helping hand when it's too late. But on the other hand, in her manga there is always hope (even way too deeply to find it), and most of all, there's a solid and incredible faith in sheer willpower and human strength.
Kurai: Yourself being happy or someone important to you being happy…which one would you choose?
Setsuna: Isn't it obvious? Everyone being happy. That's what I'd choose. (Angel Sanctuary vol. 9 )
1. Ok, maybe things never really get all that bright for side characters in Cain, but they at least are resolved!


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Ryan Says:
November 5th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
So, not to be a weirdo. But I just found your blog and it's pretty freaking awesome. I feel embarrased even posting mine because it's way lamer than yours, but I did link it. So anyway. Very awesome blog!
montuos Says:
November 6th, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Totally unrelated to this post, I just wanted to say that I'm here because somebody shared a screenshot of your Adblock is Awesome banner over on G+, and since I totally approve of that kind of attitude and like to encourage it, I came over here to look around, with Adblock disabled for the site.
And since I like food and cooking, the odds are good that I'll stick around for a while, too.
Cathy Says:
November 16th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
I demand to know when a cooking book for all of this deliciousness is coming!

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I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to books. I have a large range of interest, and a high tolerance for crappy intros. This is not to say I don't ever stop reading something and never come back to it. And this isn't to say that I like everything I read. But it's pretty hard to turn me off so much that I just flat out can't even force myself through it.
I may have mentioned a few times that back in the day I had a 10% rule. I spent a lot of time at the library and in bookstores so if the book was 300 pages long, it had 30 pages to get interesting or I'd dump it. That was my "policy." I had too many books I wanted to read, I wasn't going to spend time reading something terrible when I could be reading something awesome!
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice was over 1000 pages long. And this is where I'm glad I had that 10% policy and not a 10 page policy, because I LOVE that book, but it took me 55 pages to get into it. 55! I would have missed out on a wild ride if I had given up before then, but it was so hard to get through those first 30 especially because I had no idea what was going on. I half suspected it was because the book was too old for me at the time, but when has that stopped a bookworm?! Never, that's when. ^_^
So here are my Reading Pet Peeves and pretty much the only things that will get me to give up on a book even when I actually might want to know what happens (10% rule or no 10% rule). This is how annoying these things are to me.
I don't know why, but these things stick out like red paint on a white house. I have a limit. If I lose count of the number of pop culture references in a chapter, I put the book down and the author goes on my "do not trust" list. It's okay to mention some relevant music artist or a movie or if it's an 80s themed novel and they want to mention Cyndi Lauper or some other 80s thingie-bob. But if there are so many I lose count? That just disgusts me. Without mentioning any names, I recently read a book where the author mentioned books, movies, musicians, brands, every single pop culture reference you could think of, and squeezed them all within a couple of pages. It made me sick. I said to myself, "If I see one more, I'm putting this book down." And I did see one more, I saw five, so I quit. And I actually wanted to know what happened, but no bad enough to put up with that.
Here's why I hate it: For one, I live in a box, so most of them go over my head, and if the person is using that many, they're a crappy writer and probably didn't even have the wherewithal to offer enough context clues to what they were talking about so that people who didn't know wouldn't be lost. For second, it's freaking lazy. If you don't know how to describe something or show me how old someone is without resorting to a bunch of pop culture references, then you have issues. Like I said, a few are fine. They can help place you in a certain decade or tell you something about the character, like saying your character's little sister goes as Britney Spears for Halloween every year is funny. Saying the character is going to Evanescence concert tells me they like (awesome) rock music. But referencing Twilight or Hunger Games and in the same sentence they're referencing Gossip Girl, American Idol, and iPhones? I'm throwing the book off a bridge, and I hope the piece of crap drowns.
What is wrong with people? Is it necessary to violently rape a character when it has absolutely NOTHING to do with any part of the plot whatsoever? Is it necessary to blow up a random building on page one when nothing else is going to blow up in the ENTIRE rest of the book? Is it necessary to have a cliche teen party scene where absolutely NOTHING essential to the plot happens at all? Is it? NO, loser, it's NOT!
Now, boring is subjective. I may find a 5 page monologue on sea turtles boring as crap where someone else finds it horribly fascinating. Even if the book has a sea turtle theme, do I really need 5 pages on the proper care of injured sea turtles? No, I don't think I do. Just tell me what I need to know to understand what's going on later and shut up. I don't need 5 pages when 3 sentences will do. I DO NOT CARE.
Has anyone seen the 90s movie SPEED? Of course you have because it's awesome. Now this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Firstly, nothing blew up in the first minute. But most importantly, the characters are going into an intense situation right away. Do you want to know why this is fine? Because there was a reason for this! Same bad guy for starters. The entire rest of the movie is intense for second. Plus it showed the kind of situations our man Keanu Reeves had to deal with on a regular basis. It had a point.
Another perfect example: In a book I recently read, there was a cliche teen party complete with spilled beer and vomiting, but hey guess what, it wasn't for no reason, something that actually has something to do with the plot happened at this party!!
And my last example: Has anyone seen the movie DEEP BLUE SEA? It's awesome. They have all this shark science going on and what not. Guess what? They don't go into all this boring detail about sharks. They tell us only what we need to know to understand the complicated shark plot and then they WOW us.
It's not that hard, people, it's not hard. Stop doing crap for shock value. Stop going off on boring tangents. Stop dropping pop culture references to show me how "teenagery" your MC is. Are they a teenager or not? If they are, and you're a good writer, you really shouldn't have to work that hard. Abusing pop culture references is gross. Putting a party in your book just because "that's what teens do" is gross. Attacking characters for no reason is gross. Talking about sea turtles for 5 pages just because you find them interesting is gross. STOP IT.
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A new image from Avengers: Infinity War puts the God of Thunder in the care of Rocket and Mantis. When the trailer for Infinity War arrived, Thor seemed to be absent from the main action. What's more, the Guardians of the Galaxy were relegated to a brief tease at the end. We know from the teaser shown at D23 and Comic-Con, however, that things will likely kick off with Thor careening into the Guardians' ship, something that Thor: Ragnarok clearly set up.
The end of Ragnarok showed the new ruler of Asgard and the remainder of his people coming face to face with Thanos' ship. Likely, they'll encounter the Mad Titan and his Black Order and be separated from one another. We know Hulk will land on Earth and recreate an infamous scene from the comics, while Thor will meet the Guardians four years after the events of their most recent film. It seems, however, that the God of Thunder will be in pretty bad shape when he arrives.
RELATED: Avengers: Infinity War Does 'Wondrous Things' With Hawkeye
USA Today has a new image from Avengers: Infinity War that seems to take place after Thor makes contact with the Guardians' ship. In it, we see Rocket look over the passed out Avenger while Mantis uses her abilities (likely to try and wake him up).
This shot is the first new look we've had at the film outside of the teaser, and it shows that the full trailer for Avengers: Infinity War will feature more of the Guardians. Karen Gillen recently discussed Nebula's absence from the Infinity War trailer, hinting that her character would be more involved in the next one. And though she wasn't with the Guardians the last time we saw them, her path and their's will likely intersect as Thanos' resentful children look to stop their father.
While this is our first official look at the Guardians and an Avengers together, the two groups were teased earlier today in a new promo image for Infinity War. Most likely the design of a t-shirt, the shot pulls together various heroes from the MCU and teases the epic scope of next year's film. While many of the Earthbound heroes have interacted, the Guardians have been off in their own cosmic corner.
It makes sense for them to first encounter Thor, but the meeting between the Avengers and Guardians is sure to create some hilarious and action-packed pairings. And that's all well and good, as Thanos will be the MCU's biggest threat to date. With Avengers: Infinity War less than 5 months, many more images from the film are sure to be right around the corner.
MORE: The 5 Best Moments To Be A Superhero Fan In 2017
Source: USA Today
- Black Panther (2018) release date: Feb 16, 2018
- Avengers: Infinity War / The Avengers 3 (2018) release date: Apr 27, 2018
- Ant-Man & The Wasp (2018) release date: Jul 06, 2018
- Captain Marvel (2019) release date: Mar 08, 2019
- The Avengers 4 / Avengers: Endgame (2019) release date: Apr 26, 2019


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|Minnestima Lakes, Larch Valley, acrylic, 30x40, original painting by Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki.
Although I prefer painting stylized landscapes, like my latest painting Minnestima Lakes - Larch Valley, that took me several weeks to finish (yikes!), every once in a while a few quick realist paintings emerge during my plein air painting adventures, especially in special places like the one I just visited last week, only an hour and a half drive from Vancouver.
I've been painting stylized landscapes since 2004. I distinctly remember transitioning from realism to expressive landscapes at the same time when I got hooked on hiking our Coastal Mountains - North Shore, Garibaldi Park, Whistler. Then The Cathedral Park in Okanagan, Mt Robson, Mt Baker across the border, and of course the Canadian Rockies - Yoho, Banff and Jasper.
Hiking influenced my painting in a significant way. The scale of the subject mater expanded, and instead of seeing trees, rocks, clouds and other individual objects, I saw patterns and colors. And that's what I wanted to paint. The result was a style - a visual language that combines those two elements in an infinite number of ways. This, for me, is a wonderful thing because it is at the same time a creative process and a game of sorts. You get to create your own puzzle and solve it, again and again. The possibilities are endless.
The problem with this is that you get used (addicted?) to the game to the extent that you start visually "translating" everything you see. Everything around you becomes a play of patterns and colors. It can become tiring if not disturbing. That's why it's good to break the mold every once in a while and do something completely different. Why not realism? There is a real world full of real things all around us, after all!
I love to go outside and paint something that isn't a giant mountain of a huge lake. Something that I can try to paint just the way I see it, in less than a week. Hopefully in less than a day. A little bit of realism, just for the fun of it.
|Days Gone By, oil, 9x12, plein air sketch by Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
|Kilby Summer, oil, 12x9, plein air sketch by Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki
These are a couple of examples that I painted during a lovely weekend I spent in Kilby - an amazing heritage site in Harrison Mills in the Fraser Valley.
I included a few photos from this wonderful place too. Make sure you check out their calendar of events, If you enjoy historical places and farm environment, you won't be disappointed. There is also a cafe that serves a vegetable quiche and a strawberry rhubarb pie to die for!
|Volunteers and organizers of the event are a wonderful cast of characters, how can you resist these smiles? You can't. Notice the award packages on the table in the background - they are quite wonderful too :-)
The plein air painting event is held on the last weekend of August every year, so if you are a painter or an art lover, add it to your calendar and make sure you sign up in advance. I hope to see you there next year!


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|INDIVIDUAL ENTRY (minimum age 18 years as at Race Day)
|IRONMAN 70.3 Taupo is offering tiered pricing based on entry allocation rather than dates. Pricing is volume based and will automatically increase when capacity is reached.
|Tier 4
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|Available 17 Dec, 2018 11am - 9 Jul, 2019 11.59pm
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- Best Air Drying Clay
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Despite the generic term, clay can be made from highly diverse materials. Polymer clay, for example, is a compound designed to be molded like clay but remains soft and malleable until oven dried. Similarly, plasticine compounds are clay-like material used extensively in models for stop-gap animation since they'll never dry out. Even traditional clay is often formed from different types of material to create the ideal texture or to improve its strength. Whether you're creating models, throwing vases, or looking for a basic clay for your children, these lists will show you where to start. Be sure to check out our buyer's guide provided below if you need help interpreting the terms used in our best pick reviews.
Best Air Drying Clay:
Don't worry if you don't have a pottery kiln because not all clay needs to be fired. As its name implies, this clay type dries on its own to a hard, sturdy finish, making it a great choice for student classrooms or artists without access to a kiln. Air-drying clay comes in multiple forms, whether classic children's clay or artist-quality pottery clay.
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Please note, this clay isn't recommended for tableware or any type of container meant to hold liquids but it's suitable for sculptures, decorative dishes, and many other creative projects.
Activa La Doll Premier Air Dry Clay
This air-drying clay by Activa is perfect for creating dolls and figurines. It's non-stick formula makes the clay easy to use, works well for detail work and adheres well to a wide variety of materials. Read Full Review
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Amaco - Cloud Clay
Extra-light and pliable, Amaco Cloud Clay is a great choice for children's art projects. It's made soft for children to use though it has a sticky feel. Clouclay comes in either small packs or bulk packages intended for classroom projects. Read Full Review
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Creative Paperclay for Modeling Compound
Creative Paperclay has the same moist, pliable texture as air-drying clays. It's easy to use, durable once dried, and fairly inexpensive. While it only comes in white, sculptors can color the moist clay with watercolors or acrylics and decorate the finished, dried project as they wish. Read Full Review
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Apoxie Sculpt
Apoxie Sculpt is a popular variation on air-drying clay. This putty-like material has a working window of just 2-3 hours after mixing but it's versatile enough for either modeling projects or repair work. Read Full Review
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AMACO Mexican Self-Hardening Clay
Whether for pottery or sculptures, Mexican Pottery Clay displays vibrant shades of red after drying which are similar to iconic Mexican or Indian Pottery. Available in small 5-pound packages or large 25-pound bags. Read Full Review
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Best Polymer Clay:
Polymer clay is a fun alternative to traditional clay for art projects such as sculptures, figurines, beads, and much more. This type of clay is easy to control, soft on the hands, and often brightly colored. Polymer clay doesn't dry out easily and is simple to cure when heated to the right temperature.
While some polymer brands are significantly stronger and more reliable than others, finding the best one really depends on the individual artists' preference. Some people prefer working with very stiff clay while others enjoy using a softer, more pliable material. Soft clays tend to be easier for children to use but less reliable for professional artists, since the clay might sag or bend while it is curing. Firm clays on the other hand are far more reliable and easy to use if properly conditioned.
These best polymer clays encompass the various textures available and were chosen for this list based on the number of colors offered in their palette, their overall reliability to maintain shape and detail while sculpting, as well as their strength after they've been cured.
Kato Polyclay
Designed by an artist for artists, Kato Polyclay is well known for its strength, durability, and color selection. This brand has a firm feel and holds its shape well even when it's still wet. Read Full Review
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Staedtler Fimo Classic 8000 Polymer Clay
An all-around quality product available in 24 colors, Fimo Classic is great polymer clay suitable for many types of creative projects, While this is a fairly firm clay, a softer version is available as well as a selection of specialty clays. Read Full Review
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Cernit Modelling Clay
Cernit Clay is one of the most popular choices for making dolls or other skin tone-related projects requiring a skin tone. The clay comes in an extra-wide palette of 70 colors, making it easy to get the right shade without needing to blend colors. Read Full Review
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Premo! Sculpey Modeling Clay
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Polyform Sculpey III Polymer Clay
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Best Sculpting Clay:
Sculpting clay as a general category encompasses a wide variety of materials including air-drying clays, polymer clays with an oil-base, and plasticine clays with a base combining both wax and oil. Since plasticine clays don't dry out in the air, they're frequently used for stop-motion figurines. They're also great for artists who want to develop a model slowly without worrying about the clay drying out.
Air-drying clays on the other hand, are water-based and require regular moistening to prevent them from drying before a project is completed. These best sculpting clays were selected based on their smooth consistency for ease of sculpting, their reliability for holding shapes well, and their ability to dry without cracking.
Sculpture House Roma Plastilina Modeling Material
Roma Plastilina is considered one of the top brands of plastiline ranging from soft to extra-hard, making it easy to get the right consistency for a project. While it's expensive compared with other brands, its high-quality and reliable to work with. Read Full Review
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Van Aken Plastilina Modeling Clay
Plastilina Modeling Clay is often used for clay animations and models because of its pliability. While moderately expensive, this clay is available in a decent palette of 28 colors. Read Full Review
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Sheffield Self-Hardening Clay
Sheffield Self-Hardening clay is a dark brown clay, soft for kids but strong enough for professional sculptors. This clay has minimal shrinkage to avoid cracks while also a good bulk option, coming in 50-pound bricks at a reasonable price. Read Full Review
Laguna EM217 WED Clay
WED clay is a popular choice among sculptors for large projects and will stay pliable for a long time if kept properly moistened. This clay is one of the less expensive types available, though shipping can be expensive since it's typically packed in bulk. Read Full Review
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Staedtler Fimo Classic 8000 Polymer Clay
Fimo Classic is well known as a firm, high-quality clay which can be oven-baked for a hard, permanent sculpture or design. This clay's strength reduces the risk of cracks during the baking process and is also available in 24 colors and specialty palettes. Read Full Review
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Best Clay for Pottery:
There are dozens of high-quality clays available for pottery, but this list of best clays presented an offering of a range of colors, styles, as well as low or high-firing clays. We've selected clays which are non-toxic in their moist form; however, it is important to check any clay's safety information and avoid inhaling dry powder from any clay. These brands offer dozens of options for specialized projects and even offer resources to help pottery artists select the best type of clay for their work. Each of these clays are formulated to have a pliable, plastic-like texture good for most basic pottery projects.
Amaco Versa Clay No. 20
This clay has a wide firing range and sturdy enough for a wide variety of projects from throwing thin-walled vases to hand building sculptures. The clay is light gray when moist, but fires to a light cream or white finish. Read Full Review
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Laguna WC-606, #50 Clay
A versatile clay body, Laguna WC-606 is a favorite choice for stoneware projects. It's sturdy, high firing clay, recommended for Cone 6, with a sandy color with a fine speckled pattern which will show through the glaze post-firing. Read Full Review
Standard Ceramics #240 White Clay
Great clay for wheel throwing, White Clay #240 is stoneware blended with a fire clay to improve the texture and firing. The clay has high plasticity and a high firing range, and it is intended to be fired at Cone 6. Read Full Review
Aardvark Clays Coleman Porcelain
While porcelain might be a little more daunting to work with, this is high-quality clay made from a blend of English China clay. It fires at high temperatures from Cone 8 to Cone 11 meaning it can be used for tableware plus it's a good choice for larger pieces. Read Full Review
A.R.T. Moist Clay Brownstone I
This is a basic clay with a firing range of Cone 5 to 6. The lighter Brownstone I and heavier alternative Brownstone II both have a sandy color with a reddish tint. Overall this clay has a great texture for throwing and works well for a variety of small and large projects. Read Full Review
Clay Buyer's Guide
If you ever try to buy clay in an art store, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the options. Despite the generic term, clay can be any one of several highly diverse materials. Traditional clay is earth-based while polymer clay and plasticine are synthetic compounds. Even traditional clay is often formed from different types of material to create the ideal texture or to improve its strength, and there are all the other little details to figure out; firm, soft, tooth, clay-body, air-drying, ceramic, low-firing, and so on. The categories here are a good place to start, with suggestions for finding the best brands of air-drying clay, polymer clay, sculpting clay, and pottery clay.
Clay Body
The term clay body describes how the clay itself feels and acts. Some clay is firmer, making it a good choice for large, upright projects such vases. Some clay has a very smooth grit and is ideal for using on a wheel. Other clay is rougher, with a sandy grit which might make the clay painful to work with on a wheel, but great for modeling projects or sculptures. Even when you're looking at a specific category of clay such as pottery clay, be sure to check the materials description to make sure it has a suitable clay body.
Clay often has a gritty material called "grog" added to it. Because clay is a very dense material, the porous grog stabilizes it, making the clay easier to work with. Clay with heavy grog shrinks less when it's drying, but can also be gritty and should not be used on a pottery wheel.
This only applies to clay you plan to fire in a kiln. The cone can refer either to the general temperature at which clay is fired or to specific types of clay, designating the range of temperatures the clay can be fired. Roughly speaking, the overall range of temperatures can be broken into low-firing (earthenware, around cone 6), mid-firing (stoneware, about cone 5), and high-firing (porcelain, cone 10 and above).
Clay Types
Air-Drying Clay
For beginning potters, this type of clay is a good, basic choice. It takes much less equipment and a lower learning curve than regular pottery clay since you don't need a kiln to fire the clay. You may still need to experiment with it though, since any clay can crack during drying if it isn't shaped or handled correctly.
Polymer Clay
This is a synthetic formula created to act just like clay. The softer brands are a great choice for kids to play with since polymer won't dry out like regular clay. Firmer clay tends to work best for professionals, though, since it holds its shape better. Either type can be cured in an oven.
Like polymer clay, plasticine is synthetic clay. Unlike either clay or polymer clay, however, this clay type is oil-based so it doesn't dry out but it definitely can't be fired. Because it's a permanently soft mixture, it's a great choice for kids to play with and popular for making clay figures featured in stop-motion animations.
Ceramic Clay
This is the traditional clay widely used for pottery as well as industrial models. It can be kiln-fired using a variety of glazes although some clays are valued for their own natural coloring; in fact, earthenware and porcelain are two of the most common ceramic clays in pottery. Be sure to check both the color of the fired clay and the type and consistency of the grog, before deciding on a clay.
Sculpting Clay
Sculpting clay is a broader category of clay that can be either traditional or synthetic. It tends to have a coarse grain as opposed to other pottery clay, but in reality you can use any clay that will work well with your sculpting methods. For large sculptures you'll want to look for a sturdy clay, while slow-drying clays will work better for you if you plan to build your project slowly over several days or even weeks.
Paper Clay
Paper clay is made by adding cellulose fibers to a basic clay compound. Like grog, the fiber tends to absorb water better and can make the final product stronger. Paper clay requires more care when working with it, especially when it's being thrown on a pottery wheel.
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The groundbreaking bionic eyes are ingenious and work by translating into electrical signals, video images from a small camera placed in eyeglasses. The signals are then reflected on the tiny retinal implants.
The implants in Torres's eyes use electrodes to stimulate the healthy retinal cells that remain in her eyes, sending visual information to her optic nerve. The process allows her to see light, shapes and movement.
In the nine months after her surgery, Torres was able to recognize buildings, sidewalks and even the stars at night. But to her, the best gift was the ability she now had of watching her grandson roll a ball across the floor to her, which she catches and rolls back to him as they play together.
Second Sight Medical Products is the company behind the manufacture of these groundbreaking retinal implant systems that were approved by the FDA in 2013. Around that time, the Argus II was going for about $100,000.
In the United States, the prevalence of sightlessness as of 2012 was at 6,670,300 people, including blind women, of all ages. That's according to the National Federation of the Blind who also noted that women had the highest incidents of visual disability at the ages 16 to 75.


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August 14th 2018: A Monster Truck freestyle show AND a kid's 12-volt power wheels event
JM Motorsport Productions invades the Altamont Fair on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 at 7:00pm with a Monster Truck freestyle show featuring two of the more highly decorated trucks in the industry, as well as a kid's 12-volt power wheels demolition derby event.
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SPEED: Dirt Track Racing at the Altamont Fairgrounds
Collection of the Archives and Museum Gift of Edwin Bradt
July 26th - August 31, 2015 Public Reception Sunday July 26th 2:00-4:00pm at Village Hall
A plethora of tasty fair food staples available during the Altamont Fair
... on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013, in Altamont, N.Y.
» Read more of this article in full detail as seen in the Times Union online
This year's fair offers new attractions for young and old
It's almost fair time! We are busy putting the finishing touches on the Altamont fairgrounds, preparing to welcome you to the 122nd Altamont Fair, which runs from Aug. 11 to 16.
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275 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5Its a very good extention, i like it, but theire is no way to remove a small settings icon in top left corner? its opens it self each time
- Rated 5 out of 5is there no different between tabs we and pages we now?
- Rated 4 out of 5I wanted to scroll two windows simultaneously. This is an awesome solution for that. However, I found that one window scrolls a little faster than the other.
- Rated 5 out of 5Incredibly useful extension. Use it everyday for Twitch and it works perfect.
- Rated 2 out of 5Hi, the plugin still opens tabs in separate windows. I use the newest version 11.14 on Firerox 67 on Kubuntu 19. How can I have opened all tabs inside single window? Thanks!
- Rated 1 out of 5По сравнению с прошлым - дрянь, плодящая кучу окон, пользоваться невозможно.
- Rated 5 out of 5È un'ottima estensione, che permette di differenziare i livelli delle ricerche e della lettura dei contenuti, di monitorare più siti, o sezioni di sito, contemporaneamente ecc. Utilissimo, ad esempio, bello streaming. Tra l'altro non esiste su nessun altro browser. Non capisco perché Firefox la boicotti, e la collochi tra le obsolete, peraltro senza spiegazioni, non permettendo neppure di reinstallarla.
- Rated 2 out of 5Geteilte Tabs haben keine Funktion, Eingabe in die Adressleiste führt einen immer zu Google.
Developer responseposted 7 months agoEnglish Translation:
Divided Tabs have no function, typing in the address bar leads one always to Google.
The purpose of the tiled tabs is to allow you to view the tabs side by side at the same time. If you are tiling existing tabs, then those tabs will be displayed in the tiles and the address bars will show the URLs of the tabs. If you are tiling new tabs (because there are insufficient existing tabs), then then the Default page will be displayed in the tiles and the address bars will show the URL of the Default page (as defined in the Tile Tabs WE Options).
- Rated 1 out of 5Tile Tabs was ruined the moment it began opening "multiple tabs" by way of opening the additional tabs in SEPARATE WINDOWS.
The ONLY reason ANYONE would look for an extension such as this one is to do EXACTLY what it used to do. We want to minimize the number of windows we have open BUT also be able to view multiple sites - side by side - for comparison and quick use of information from one tab into the other without switching.
Until this function is once again usable for that EXACT functionality, this extension is utterly useless.
Either commit to fixing that functionality or please retire this add-on.
Developer responseposted 7 months agoUsing the new WebExtensions API's, it is not possible to display multiple tabs simultaneously within the same browser window. This is why Tile Tabs WE has to move each tiled tab into a separate window.
Reasons why you might want to use Tile Tabs WE:
• To compare multiple web pages side-by-side.
• To synchronize scroll multiple web pages side-by-side.
• To open links from one tab in adjacent existing tabs.
• To save tiled layouts which can be re-opened for future use.
Tile Pages WE has just been released and displays multiple web pages in a single browser window!
- Rated 2 out of 5I cannot figure out how to use the add-on. None of the Linux shortcuts work; maybe related to the window manager? How do I sync-scroll? I would assume that all tiles just scroll simultaneously when enabled? However, only the active tile scrolls. So far, it would be great if it just did what is advertised.
Developer responseposted 8 months agoYou can change the keyboard shortcuts using the Tile Tabs WE Options dialog. When Firefox 66.0 is released, you will also be able to change the keyboard shortcuts from the 'Tools > Add-ons' page.
You can synchronize scroll adjacent tabs if you enable the 'Sync Scroll' menu item on the toolbar button menu or the page context menu. When you scroll any tile in a horizontal or vertical group of tiles, the adjacent tiles will also be scrolled.


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Technothlon conducts its examination free of cost for all the KVs & JNVs across the nation and overseas. The examination will take place on 14th July 2019, in your KV/JNV. If you wish to participate, contact your principal.
An official mail containing all the required information & procedure has already been sent to all the regional headquarters as well as all the individual KVs & JNVs.
If you haven't recieved the email, please send us a mail at [email protected] through your official email-id and we'll provide you with all the necessary details.
In case you did not receive the registration sheet, click here to download it. Fill it with the details of students you wish to register and
upload it to the portal link given to you in the email.
There is no limit on the number of registrations!
Please note that this procedure is only valid for Kendriya Vidyalayas & Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.
Other schools, please contact the city representative(s) in your city.
Technothlon is held in two stages:
1. Prelims: to be held on 14th July 2019 at 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
2. Mains: to be held at IIT Guwahati during Techniche in September
Technothlon is organized in two modules:
1.Junior Squad: Students of classes 9th and 10th
2. Hauts Squad: Students of classes 11th and 12th
Visit this page to know everything about Technothlon!


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Brexit crisis talks: Theresa May to travel to Dublin for crunch meeting with Taoiseach
- Juncker deals British PM heavy blow as she meets EU leaders
- Donald Tusk says EU 'wants to help' after 'frank discussion' with Mrs May
THERESA MAY is to travel to Dublin on Wednesday for talks with the Taoiseach in a bid to rescue her Brexit deal.
The British Prime Minister has already been dealt a heavy blow in her bid to secure new reassurances from fellow EU leaders over the deal, as the European Commission president declared there was "no room whatsoever for renegotiation".
Jean-Claude Juncker said the Withdrawal Agreement on offer was the "best deal possible" and the "only deal possible" as the British prime minister embarked on emergency Brexit talks with her Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte in The Hague.
He offered a glimmer of hope to Mrs May by saying there was room to give "further clarifications and further interpretations without opening the Withdrawal Agreement".
- Read More: Ireland 'actively preparing' for No-Deal Brexit – but Tánaiste believes it 'is still unlikely'
Now it has emerged that Mrs May is to travel to Dublin tomorrow evening for a crunch meeting with Leo Varadkar.
They will discuss how to reassure MP in the House of Commons that the backstop will trap the UK in the EU's customs union.
Mr Varadkar has already stated that the Withdrawal Agreement cannot be renegotiated.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mrs May sought Angela Merkel's support on Tuesday to save her floundering Brexit deal but the European Union ruled out renegotiating the divorce treaty, after May postponed a parliamentary vote she admitted she would lose.
In rainy Berlin, a hitch with May's car door briefly trapped her inside, delaying her red carpet handshake with Merkel.
Mrs May then held a "long and frank" meeting with EU Council president Donald Tusk.
Mr Tusk tweeted after the conversation: "Long and frank discussion with PM @theresa_may ahead of #Brexit summit. Clear that EU27 wants to help. The question is how."
Mrs May's move to abandon a crunch Commons vote, scheduled for Tuesday, on her Brexit deal drew howls of condemnation from the opposition as well as a number of Tories.
She will now bring her Brexit deal back to the House of Commons "before January 21".
Mr Juncker won applause from MEPs as he said: "There is no room whatsoever for renegotiation, but of course there is room if used intelligently, there is room enough to give further clarifications and further interpretations without opening the Withdrawal Agreement.
"This will not happen: everyone has to note that the Withdrawal Agreement will not be reopened."
He confirmed he would meet Mrs May on Tuesday evening but reiterated: "The deal we have achieved is the best deal possible – it is the only deal possible."
It came as Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom suggested Mrs May was seeking changes that would give Parliament an additional "democratic ability to decide".
"That might include an addendum to the Withdrawal Agreement that sets out that Parliament will vote prior to going into a backstop, should that prove necessary, and potentially that the EU parliament and UK parliament must vote every year thereafter to provide that legitimacy for the UK to stay in the backstop, should that prove necessary," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"So there are plenty of options for the PM to talk to the EU about that don't involve reopening the Withdrawal Agreement, but that would provide the legal text as a part of the Withdrawal Agreement, through perhaps an addendum."
Mrs May, who is facing repeated calls from leading Tory Brexiteers to be replaced as PM, was forced to abandon the Commons vote as the scale of opposition to the Brexit deal, especially regarding proposed backstop arrangements for the Irish border, threatened a crushing rejection of her plans.
As anger at Westminster continued to fester over the PM's move to cancel the Brexit vote, MPs were poised for an emergency debate on the situation called by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on the day the "meaningful vote" was initially scheduled to take place.
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said it would be difficult to get the Brexit deal through Parliament without reassurances the UK would not be "trapped" in backstop measures ensuring no return to hard border in Ireland.
The backstop would see the UK obey EU customs rules after a transition period if a wider trade deal has not been agreed with the EU by then.
Referring to Mrs May's lobbying mission in Europe, Dr Fox told BBC2's Newsnight: "My colleagues will want to see that their fears of being trapped in a backstop cannot be realised.
"Without the ability to genuinely reassure my colleagues that they could not legally be kept in the backstop against their will, it will be difficult to get this through the House of Commons."
With Jeremy Corbyn under pressure from a significant number of MPs and peers to force a confidence vote on the Government, Labour former Cabinet minister Lord Mandelson said the opposition had not laid a glove on the Government.
He told the BBC: "I think the Labour Party, the Labour leadership, is facing a bit of a dilemma.
"I mean, they want to straddle, and retain the support of the third of Labour voters who backed Leave in 2016, and the two-thirds of Labour voters who backed Remain.
"Well, what happens when you, you know, ride two horses like that, you end up doing the splits."
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A Graduation Party on the Malibu Pier
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A swell was in one clear sunny Saturday in May and the surfers were out in full force. At the end of the Malibu Pier, Liz was having her graduation party in the Surfrider room at the Beachcomber Restaurant. Here are some pictures of the floral arrangements we provided. The color theme was orange and pool blue and Liz thought having actual oranges in the arrangements would be a lot of fun. I couldn't agree with her more! We also used fun, bright orange gerbera daisies, yellow craspedia, peachy-orange roses, and accents of light green bupleurum.


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Are you looking for fellow Chinese in Burkina Faso? Do you need advice and tips from your Chinese countrymen? Or would you like to go for a trip with other Chinese expats to discover attractions like the green and lush southern forests together?
Whether you are already living as an expat in Burkina Faso or still residing at home in China to prepare your relocation abroad, InterNations Burkina Faso provides you with all you need: Founded in 2007, our trusted community has quickly established itself as the international networking platform for expats and global minds worldwide. Among our members there is also a number of Chinese expats in Burkina Faso, hailing from all across China - from Guangzhou, over Shanghai to Beijing.
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Obviously, embarking on expat life in Burkina Faso is not only about packing boxes and getting some paperwork done. The regular exchange with your Chinese compatriots is also an important aspect of the expat experience and can help you get accustomed to the Burkinabé culture and people. InterNations helps you meet and interact with other Chinese in Burkina Faso, living in Ouagadougou, Gorom-Gorom, Bobo-Dioulasso and many other places across the country. Just take a look at our group of Chinese in Ouagadougou.
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Mountain Winery at Saratoga, which is both scenic and serene offered a perfect venue for this beautiful and colorful wedding.
Having already captured Falguni & Mohit's Engagement session, Mehandi and Sangeet, I was looking forward to shoot their Gujrati- Punjabi wedding as well. We started in the morning with getting ready sessions at different places and then rushed to the winery. Wedding started with groom side guests dancing and marching in the shape of baraat towards the site where bride side was waiting to welcome them. Groom was on a horse and guests were dancing to the tunes of moving DJ speakers with live Dholi adding to those beats .
This wedding consisted of a Hindu ceremony in a beautiful Mandap set up in the open Chateau Deck which has sweeping views of the Silicon Valley. You can see those breathtaking views in this gallery. This was followed by bridal sendoff and then cocktail hour for guests to taste the fine wines from this winery along with some mouth watering snacks. It also gave them time to enjoy the beautiful scenery at dusk time. This was followed by Reception at Grand Hall of historic winery building. Ivy covered stonewalls and fragrant oak casks give this hall a delicious, old-world ambiance, a photographer's delight to capture some amazing images. What further added to this exceptional venue was the wedding design by SB Arts. And Cierra from Dreams on a Dime did an excellent job of meticulously planning this event. DJ Salim helped everyone to shake it up and sumptuous food by Mantra delighted guest palettes.
Thanks to this great couple - Falguni & Mohit for letting me capture their special day.
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Wedding Planner - Cierra Lockwood from Dreams on a Dime
Makeup and Hair - Laenka by Myrium
Wedding Design/Decoration by Satvir Bhogal , SB Arts
Dj - Salim
Catering by - Mantra
Mehandi Artist - Ravi


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