Mirror Magazine
Charming creations
Melanie Balasuriya’s first customer was herself. “I was going through my boho phase,” she remembers, laughing at the memory “and I remember trying desperately to find a dreamcatcher-except they were all so expensive!” Not willing to burn a hole in her wallet, and having always been an arts and crafts girl herself, Melanie decided to [...]
Anthuriams
With trembling fingers, Nilakshi gathers up the freshly cut anthuriams into a scarlet bouquet. These were her little Leila’s “Antuviams” as she lovingly called them. Together they had planted, nurtured and pruned the potted plants, until they were adorned with the scarlet slipper like flowers, stemming out of their crowns of dark green slipper like [...]