Partridges & Pears

Partridge & Pears, copyright The Mandala Group 2012

It's time to unveil this year's mandala for Christmas, including the usual stars...
Instead of a general Christmas 'free for all', we have decided this year to have a specific theme.  So we chose to use the first line of a well known Christmas tune as inspiration and you'll almost certainly have guessed by now, it's the first line belonging to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' tune.

"On the first day of Christmas, 
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree"

In the centre of the mandala perches a partridge drawn by Jo Jo.  Below there are four more partridges, not however, in a pear tree ~ are they foraging for something on the ground?

Four Partridges, copyright The Mandala Group 2012

Ribbons & Roses

Ribbons & Roses, Copyright Shastina of The Mandala Group 2012

A mandala made with more found objects; this time by using rosy petals and gold curling ribbons, all put together on a place mat.

Spring & Summery Mandala

A Mandala for Spring Days and Summery Ways, Copyright Anna and Shastina, The Mandala Group, 2006


A good friend Anna, helped me with this mandala. She beautifully created Summery Ways and I was responsible for the Spring Days part. It was made in segments and then placed together. 

A recipe

My uncle once commented that mandalas look like pizzas, so here's a recipe for a mandala

Ingredients:
1 circle drawn on paper
selection of colouring pens
100 beautiful thoughts
A collection of coloured papers to use as a mount, save for later

Method:
Using a chosen colour scheme, select the colours you want to use from the colouring pens.
Add colour to the circle, working from the centre.
Then sprinkle liberally with beautiful thoughts.
Cut out the circle and your mandala is finished.
Serve with a coloured mount.

Enjoy!