Sunday, June 27, 2010

Labor of Love (!?)


During my last visit to Villa Karizma, located opposite to Amiri Hospital, I stumbled upon a tiny little store  called "My Handmade" with cute necklaces, brooches, shawls, and other adorable stuff.  And then I was baffled to find out that almost everything in store is actually handmade by a local entrepreneur (and that's according to the sales lady!)

So I had to take a closer look at her work and I was amazed to find how meticulous her work is. Just look at these charming mobile accessories and yes the rug too, the details are mind-blowing.   Actually, her meticulousness reminded me a lot of another local handmade brand, which I’d like to refer to as the “pride-and-the-joy” of the local handmade scene, the ibrah girls.  I’m pretty sure that handmade stuff with such quality like these are very time consuming, but are made with love.

It’s obvious that her talent is phenomenal and I’m glad that she opened her own place to share these wonderful creations. 



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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

i passed by and i saw the filippino employee doing the croshet work, im not sure if she did it all or some are done by the local owner as well.

Confashion said...

Anonymous
The items that I saw did not include crochet.. or at least what I have noticed. They were mainly made out of wool threads and heavy wool fabrics. Hmm.. It could be that the employee was just passing her time?

Anonymous said...

i saw the thread-like dolls shown in the 1st 2 pics in a lolcal market at bangkok

Confashion said...

Anonymous
If that's true then it would be such a shame :\ especially that the sales lady insisted that all the things I chose to photograph are handmade by the owner from scratch...
Anyways.. I still think the dolls look cute..

Anonymous said...

i dont knw if she did them but i bought the same key chain the red one from MOMA in NY few yrs back

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