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In January 2019, when Art bead Scene came up with their new set of challenges, I swore to participate in each one of them. However, I let the first Art Journey go and participated in the second with my Blondine and Tortoise necklace. The third and current one is based on flowers and bees. Inspired…
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Welcome to the Bead Peeps Swap and hop reveal 2019. This is the fifth year of the swap and hop and I would like to say that it has been fun participating for five consecutive years. You can see my past Bead peeps Swap and hop reveals here. This year is all about light and…
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Going through my Instagram feed, I realised that there were several pieces of Riti jewellery that I had failed to showcase on the blog. I had originally planned to write about them as a sort of roundup at the end of the year. But as with many things in life, plans change and they got…
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Yesterday, Janmasthami or the birth of Krishna was celebrated across most parts of India. A few sects like mine celebrate it today. On this occassion, I want to present a couple of Krishna themed jewellery that I made recently. One was a part of the Parampare collection and the other a custom order for a…
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I do not remember whether the kaleidoscope that I had as a child was white, a mustard yellow or a red with all over patterns. I simply remember it being a laminated paper tube with a lens and jiggly glass bits inside. There were in red, green, blue, yellow, pink, and black. My kaleidoscope created…
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Pongal or Sankranthi is the Indian version of Thanksgiving. It is a harvest festival (Jan 14th and 15th this year) where we give thanks to the Sun (and nature in totality) for blessing us with a bountiful harvest. After the month of Margazhi which is reserved for devotion and contemplation, the month Thai is for celebration.…
