Spring Collection - Holi Essentials

In India, we have festivals for every season. For spring we have - Holi, also known as "Basant Utsav" meaning "Spring Festival". The festival has many purposes, but most prominently, it celebrates the beginning of Spring. In 17th century literature, it was identified as a festival that celebrated agriculture, spring harvests and the fertile land. Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying farewell to winter. So do I! Saying good bye to winter..

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Glass beads mania

When I say I love beading, it includes the most fascinating and adorable things in my beads treasure - glass beads, too. I have been using glass beads to create jewelry for myself. They are one of the first supplies I would love to buy when I shop for jewelry.

When you look at the existence of glass beads, they were present during Roman times as well as Egyptian time. They are ancient and yet trendy.

Reasons for buying beads

Like most of the women, I love shopping. Previously I was a shopaholic for apparels and accessories. Now, there is a dramatic change with that and I am a shopaholic for beads. The way colors for fabric attracted me, now colors of beads attract me. And when after spending on beads still I am the " I want something new", I make beads at home.Well, that's all together a different topic to discuss, will bring it on blog soon. But for now, I am in search of reasons to buy beads. Every-time I see new beads, I am definitely buying them. When I think about the purchase I have already made I always have self explanations. Plus, here I am attaching some of the designs which came out without any planning from my beads treasure.

So, here are few of my reasons to shop for beads,

Inspiration: Sometimes you buy beads just like that, without any purpose, but they become your inspiration for next design. I usually face "what next?" question. I can't decide what to create everyday. I just open my bead box and see those colorful beads. Their colors or shapes or size help me to decide what new designs should be created. 

ABS Feb Challenge - Blossom Necklace

Hello Lovelies,

This is very first time I am participating in an online challenge for beaders, Feb ABS Monthly challenge by Art Bead Scene. Usually these challenges provide some inspiration for participants for creating a piece of jewelry using art beads, colors to combine, materials to be used for making beads and the kind of objects can be used as art beads. Their purpose behind the challenges is to explore new ways to designs with art beads.

Knotting 101

When you put your heart and soul into some activity you enjoy it. And when you enjoy it, you try your best to make make it more and more interesting with new experiments. So do I. With my jewelry making hobby, I keep on experimenting new techniques. Usually I try to use objects, available at my home and try to upcycle it, though I do not hesitate buying supplies to make prettiest things for myself.