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An English Rose Palette

I know Iā€™ve been sleeping on my blog. But Iā€™ve been working as a beaver all these monthsā€¦collecting stuff to fill up these pages in the days to come. So yeah...I ain't a lazy bum after all! I start with one of my first projects. Take a look at my Nikah ensemble. I took pictures with my trusted Sony Ericsson just to record this dress for posterity. I love my dress, I love the jewellery I have tried to match with it and I love the idea of wearing it and posing for pics J The challenge was the colour of my dress. Why? Because being a Mallu my stock of gold jewellery was higher than stone. As a result, I didnā€™t really have much of what I had that could be worn with this dress. As you can see itā€™s of an Englsih Rose colour with stones and diamante placed all over the dress. I could not use gold over this predominantly silver and pink background. So I started thinking in the lines of pearl, diamonds, stones etc. And here it is. My maang tika is a chain whic...