Menorah Stationery

                                      It is the small things that bring big happiness. Ask any booklover if they like bookmarks and you can watch their face light up instantly.  Bookmarks  are a favorite among book lovers, both young and old.                                     Every time I stumble across a bookmark on any old book that I had been reading, I am on a beautiful walk down the memory lane where I remember all the details about how the bookmark was made, who gifted it to me and the things that make it very special. Not only that, my mind skips to the time when I was reading the book, images of the weather outside and the feel of the paper flit across my mind, making me nostalgic.                               ...

                 I had recently bought Alice Walker's   The Color Purple   and I wanted a bookmark that would resonate with the cover and the theme of the book. You can think of several such   bookmark ideas with paper   for different occasions. So, here is how I made a purple zodiac bookmark for myself.   MATERIALS REQUIRED Watercolor Bookmark from Menorah Photographic ink Water Round paint brush White gelly roll pen   PAINT YOUR HEART OUT!                                    I wanted my  paper bookmarks   to have a nice and flowy effect, so I knew I had to paint using the Wet-on-Wet watercolor technique. I first applied water on my bookmark by dipping my paintbrush in water and gently applying it on the surface.                             ...

            “Let it go! Let it go! Can’t hold it back any more.” Does this ring any bells? This song went viral because of the profound life lesson that Elsa conveys that we should learn to accept things that are beyond our control.             But Elsa is not the first person who had taught us this important lesson. We had in fact been practicing this since childhood- thanks to watercolors! Water colour is usually the very first thing that we get our hands on, when we want to start painting. Remember when you used to draw a little house on a grass field, take your small  watercolor pads   , dip that tiny brush in a glass of water and be amazed as you watched the color spread on paper?            That’s the best thing about water colors! Water colors are an untamed spirit! They react with paper and other colors spontaneously and there...