In regular occassions and festivals we wear regular blouses, may be with a few design elements like a frill at the sleeve, or a trim on the neck or piping. But for those very special occassions like a maturity function, or engagements, or marraige work blouses add that extra sparkle. The embellishments embroidered over the blouses look so pretty and add the extra glam. For long my clients have been asking me occassionally if I do work blouses. I wanted to start this service and wanted these type of blouses to be available to my clients here in USA. I ordered the zari threads, aari embroidery n ..read more

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I got a few fabrics from India this November. Mostly brocade fabrics which I had planned to sew for my kids for the upcoming festivals. I chose the fabrics based on the favorite colors of my kids. Yet when my kids saw the fabrics, they selected them differently than I thought. Anyhoo, I began sewing anarkali kurti for my elder one who is 12. The pink fabric was so beautiful, I paired it with some contrast greens which later I would choose for designing. In 2021 I made lehengas for my 12 year old. But she still isn't very comfortable carrying the dupatta. So I started making gowns and anarkali ..read more

So Aarya is my younger daughter's best friend and lives in our community. The kids play every day in summer. They bike together, they take the same bus to school and have weekly play dates in winter. It's her birthday on the 16th of Nov. So I decided to gift her an Indian frock. I asked Summy, my daughter, what's Aarya's favorite color. She said orange. As usual finding the right fabrics in Arya's favorite color was a challenge. I opened my stash and found 1 cotton fabric that I bought from Walmart, and 2 other fabrics that I bought online from India. One was a brocade fabric in red and the ot ..read more