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I wanted to buy a Nelum pot. But it got delayed day by day with the situation in the country. It was fair to go out to buy necessary things. But this was not on the list of essential items. So, every time it gets delayed. Finally I searched for methods to do it at home.

There were two different interesting, possible methods. One was to use a big pan to make it. It was a pan that use to make Dodol or Kiri for occasions like "කිරි දාන" that is performed to have the blessing of Goddess Paththini. Though we have one at home, I did not like to use that because we use that pan to make food.

The second method is to use a block made with sand. I chose that method. My father and brother helped me with this. All the heavy works were done by my brother. First he brought sand from the sand dump that remains after the construction works of the home.

We needed to make a shape of the inner side of the nelum pot with sand. After making the shape we added some water on it and that helped to shape the structure. That was done by me. 😅 Durng that time brother and father made the cement mixture. I added wetted newspaper sheets on the mould and shaped that onto the sand structure.

Then we put cement mixture around the mould and did not forget to add some metal strings. Then we covered the whole thing with cement. Each time my brother was scolded by my father. Males do not like to surrender to each other. Father blames brother and brother blames back to father. Very funny.

After covering it with cement mixture we added some cement powder to it and then shaped it with a mason spoon. As we are experiencing rains these days, we covered it properly to avoid contact with water. I will show it after drying soon.

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