Until a couple of years back, I had no idea what “an art bead” was and then I came across the Artbeadscene blog where they had contests using art beads. The designs looked wonderful, almost poetic with mostly lampwork beads. So I thought that only lampwork beads must be art beads until I found metal…
Every year around April and May one gets to see a variety of bird’s nest patterns being used in jewelry and gifts – particularly on the gifts meant for Mother’s day. Wire birds nest are very popular as they are easy to make and are versatile to use, but too much of the same component…
Lavanya joined us last week to share with us, detailed step by step instructions on how to make Quilled Jhumkha earrings. She is joining us again today with another tutorial to make these Ornate quilled earrings. Like the one before, this design was also created by her for the winner of the 3000 Likes contest…
en Lavanya Nallamalli’s facebook page crossed 3000 likes in november last year, she decided to do a very interesting giveaway. She invited readers to send in designs for quilled earrings and announced that the winners would get their designs handmade into products by her. Lavanya is here with us for the next few days, over…
2014 was a year of many milestones and Sparkling Glory. It was delightful, tough, frustrating, filled with opportunities and tested me at every turn. I hope I have done justice to the time given and opportunities afforded to me this year and I wish for 2015 to be the year where I be healthier, wealthier…
Being a fashion designer I always wanted to do a styling post in my blog and figured that this year for Diwali week I would post Fashion styling tips instead of the usual tutorial. A quick survey of the social media sites and enquiries in my friends circle confirm that more and more people are…