A Complete Guide to Demi-Couture Jewellery in India

A Complete Guide to Demi-Couture Jewellery in India

The ultimate guide to artistic baubles and demi-couture jewellery that evokes the splendor of India without breaking the bank The final embellishment piece to an ensemble is a doodad. Be it around your neck, waist, ankles, fingers, or wrists, jewellery is the ultimate act of …

Rolling out smokeless chulhas for Himalayan kitchens

Rolling out smokeless chulhas for Himalayan kitchens

Girish Chanyal is Smokeless Cookstove Foundation’s Uttarakhand-based trainer who is a relentless community enabler who constructs smokeless chulhas. Nitisha Agrawal, the Founder & Director of the NGO SCF, traces Chanyal’s journey from gardener to trainer for BeejLiving My eternal love affair with the Himalayas led …

Jigsawing Your Way Through The Pandemic

Jigsawing Your Way Through The Pandemic

Working through the lock down with an ethical jigsaw puzzle The first few months of being locked up at home were akin to life crawling by in slow motion. Time, once so scarce, was piling up in minutes, hours and days. The minutes ticked by …

The Slow Edit: The Introduction to the Art of Slow Living Workshops

The Slow Edit: The Introduction to the Art of Slow Living Workshops

Beejliving introduces Slow Living Workshops When someone asks you what is the purpose of life, we look for something profound to say. The answer is simple. We are looking for happiness. Pure, unadulterated happiness. So, why aren’t we happy? Because we’re putting too much pressure …

The Perfect Bouquet

The Perfect Bouquet

Jo Moody, Design Head, La Fleur, takes us through the nuances of creating rustic bouquets, including an arrangement in a fish bowl, a wedding bouquet and rustic chic arrangement that seemed plucked straight from the woodlands. With over 15 years of experience in the horticultural industry — including teaching floristry at Hadlow College in Kent — she has helped develop bouquets for major high street retailers in the UK and brings her love for flowers to La Fleur too using only locally-grown Indian flowers of the highest quality.

A Humane Intervention

A Humane Intervention

Designer and co-founder of design house, Unlike Design Co. (www.unlike.in), Harpreet Padam graduated from the Accessory Design Department at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi in 1999. Harpreet and his partner at Unlike, Lavanya Asthana, a communication design graduate from the National Institute …