Eat That Frog:)!

Mark Twain said it….and then someone wrote an eponymous book sometime ago……
I’d read the quote sometime ago and then I read the book a little while ago:)!..well am still reading it….
The frog’s a metaphor fr the job that needs to be done first thing in the day,even if one finds it terrifying or revolting or….anything [...]

One day…

Two shows later,I’m still “hoping’ to upload some pics here….of my beads and some pieces that I enameled for “Enamel Revisited”,an Enamel show we put up as the Delhi Chapter of the Enamelist Society of India.Pity,the pics just don’t seem to have done justice to the pieces.
A few years ago,I wanted to do everything I [...]

Beads in Mumbai

Last week,I was in Mumbai,with a li’l box of handcrafted beads I displayed at a friend’s stall in a popular show….it was fun.I loved how people walked up to where the beads were and enquired about where and how they’d been made.
Lampworked beads as an artist’s medium are yet unheard of in India…I learnt making [...]

Handmade-with love

Here’s a pendant I made using Silver clay,enamel and a glass bead from my new series of ribbon twisty beads.
I’ve been wanting to make this piece for quite some time…and quite like the way it’s turned out.I’m going to wear it lots and often,especially,when I go for shows to sell my jewelry:)…..eager to [...]

Of Collages and Art Journals

Convinced that being able to interpret everything I’d love to do and say visually and in color would help me create better beads and jewelry,I began looking for books and ideas about creating collages and art journals.I’d picked up a book on altered books about two years ago but that was not what my [...]