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Oorja Makkad

Blogger | Designer
Millennial Sareephile
Indian Textile Aficionado

Musing on fashion, handicraft, sustainability narratives, cruelty-free beauty and eclectically homegrown design. Find me on Instagram @oorja.revivestyle.

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❤️🤌✨ (this is how I incessantly daydream ❤️🤌✨ (this is how I incessantly daydream-save on Pinterest) (6 is everything 🥺)
Venus day moodboard 🌸🌹 Fridays are for love, Venus day moodboard 🌸🌹 Fridays are for love, beauty, flowers and pleasure 💞
a gentle burst of basant 🌻💛 aka happy Bengal a gentle burst of basant 🌻💛 aka happy Bengali Valentine's day ;) for the loveliest @monicagulatihanda's #peelibasant 🌜 the nayika-esque rings are @aarna.store, the cotton silk yellow handloom from Bengal is a curation of @pink_paisely Is this season my cue to dive fully and unhingedly into worshipping and embodying Persephone? Yes it is 🌸
#ReviveStyleWraps | one of my favourite uninhibite #ReviveStyleWraps | one of my favourite uninhibited Venusian joys in life is making my wrap images, just for the sake of art, just for appreciating the beauty of textiles and jewellery by enjoying the process of clicking these for myself and by myself, they have no point, no goal, no wearability, no teachable lesson, nothing ... just enjoying composing beauty, for the sake of beauty 🌸 this one is a memory in a handloom kasavu worn with a vintage pearl rope on a full moonlit night in 2022
a blessed Saraswati energy day to you🌹❤️ w a blessed Saraswati energy day to you🌹❤️ wearing a handloom matka silk from a weaver that has gold sequin fleurs woven into the fabric of the silk organza on its pallu 😍 this was purchased at an exhibition at the Coomaraswamy Hall at CSMVS (the good ol' heritage museum of Mumbai) all the gold is heirloom from mother, and the lovely blouse was stitched locally 💅
nothing like that *imagining I'm a spoiled lil maf nothing like that *imagining I'm a spoiled lil mafia wife* outfit 🤌
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this life 🪴✨ this life 🪴✨
the more inimitable you are the more arduously the the more inimitable you are the more arduously they try 🤭
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my idea of beautiful, meaningful wedding fashion: my idea of beautiful, meaningful wedding fashion: slow, artisanal, handcrafted, ethically made, patronizing traditional design heritage, and lots of cute borrowed or hand-me-down things ;) ❤️🌹 the traditional hand-painted kashmiri papier mâché in a box clutch is from the craft revival effort of @me_meraki, the kundan polki choker is the work of art of small biz @aarna.store's karigars ✨
gotta be in touch with my inner apsara even at the gotta be in touch with my inner apsara even at the grocery store 🐍 serpent bajubandh in silver, crisp linen shirt, comfiest jeans 🤍
on packaging ♻️ do reshare if you resonate 🪴
dainty silver, Mughal botanical butas, old fashion dainty silver, Mughal botanical butas, old fashioned Indian suit sets: a few of my fav things🌹
my winter afternoon 🌸 ~~ I had been on a 'readi my winter afternoon 🌸 ~~ I had been on a 'reading deprivation' the past 5 days, a creative rejuvenation tool for the artist brain (from the course The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron). Not reading books, articles, random posts, anything at all. Also further avoiding the self-numbing 'chatter' of television and podcasts. It was an exercise to propel one into our creative artist brain, to be more deeply present in the visual, the sensual, the hands-on stuff of life. This is the most difficult week in this course because, as Julia rightly put it, "words are like tiny tranquilizers for the blocked creative." My only options were to write, make art, listen to music, do chores, organise things, cook, meditate, work out, create things with my hands, have conversations, take walks, do all kinds of hands-on creation for my biz, and wriggle out of ANYTHING that requires reading. A life of a simpleton. I let myself watch silent, slow living YouTube vlogs for visual food 🌻 I came face to face with how I overconsume information and a constant Instagram stream of "I should be like this, I should be like that, do that, think that..." due to my almost-addiction to keep reading and reading and consuming and consuming media. It is way too easy to do that in this time we live in - hundreds of informational posts, thousands of articles, millions of ideas on your phone all day errday, deeply valuable and also SO much. In no way is reading 'bad,' of course. But it's interesting how I actually did so many of the things I had been putting off. I created w my hands, received ideas for my biz, a stream of inspiration flowed to me due to this space & nothingness. Simply be-ing. Instead of cramming the free pockets of my day with words/podcasts in the spirit of relentless self improvement. My inner artist played, wandered, layed about and actually created in the absence of the sludge of constant information. It was space for MY real feelings, thoughts and voice to come thru, unobstructed by anyone's words. This delicious read that I have been waiting for arrived today, and I think I am now ready to end this reading detox and go back into the cerebral ~~ Would you? 🌚🌸
happy thrifting my closet sale, today is the last happy thrifting my closet sale, today is the last day ♻️🪡 www.revive.style/shop
shall we talk about the birds and the bees? 🌹🍯🌷🦋 most kashidakari ever, I've peaked
baft hawaa, winter afternoon, needs no filter 🤍 baft hawaa, winter afternoon, needs no filter 🤍❄️ freshwater pearls crowned in silver from @aarna.store, a phulia jamdani (baft hawa means handwoven air, it's what the Mughals would call the ethereal handloom muslins of eastern India) and a thrifted sweater
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