**THE TRAVELING INDIA SHRINE**

Create any small size traveling shrine for your partners from a matchbox or any other material that you can think of. Send one matchbox shrine to one person. The swap is for Incredible India group members.

Ask your partner what sort of shrine they would like or after you sign up let us know by adding it in your profile and/or in the comment section below. For example Buddah, Ganesha, Krishna, Vernishu, Saraswati, etc. The shrines can be handmade for example info Puja Kits, even rosaries in pouches could be considered a travel shrine/ devotional kit. A cigar box travel shrines ( a tiny buddha, incense burner, incense, rice, dry fruit, offering bowl, mantra beads, anointing oil, candle). Or even a triptych shrine. I will still check if any group members from Incredible India have no send ins or anything fishy.

Here are a few fun web sites of photos of examples of handmade shrines and various ideas on how to create them.

Inspirational shrine sites: http://justcreateart.blogspot.com/ http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/is.html http://ladybugcircus.typepad.com/blog/artorcraft/ http://www.jenworden.com/2007/09/11/shrines/

How to make one and inspirational handmade shrines. http://harpie38.blogspot.com/2008/08/matchbox-shrine-class.html http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/matchbx.html http://www.luckymojo.com/matchbox.html And Happy Swapping!

*Above photo is the Chardham Yatra shrine in India. *