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February 23, 2015

The Color of Truth

By Matsuda Mashimaru

 

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Bracelets from assorted color of pearls

What is the color of truth? Is it black or is it white?

Personally I think the color of truth is just gray. What matters … almost always … is the intention of our heart. What is honestly lies inside our heart that counts. My advice to my dear friend (you might know who you are) … your life is so noisy that you lost track of your own intention.

But … well … I might be right and I might be wrong too. A true long-lasting friendship is about accepting your friend on his/ her face value … it is about accepting him/ her as who they are and not based on your own ‘dreamy or fairy’ imagination … saint like human friend. Errr … excuse my babbling here. I was just having a hard time moving on and leaving behind a soul … that I thought was my friend 😉 . The introvert in me … always causing me trouble keeping up with people around me. Or … maybe he/ she is just not a keeper?

All of this delusional feelings that I have … most probably was due to the after effect of me working with something that I don’t really like lol. I have been playing with black color a lot more than I should this past few weeks. The truth is … black has never been my favorite color. I had enough darkness in my life to play with and I need light and colors to stay insanely alive. I am just glad that it was over now.

I was working with GayaIzzah.com new Minimalist in Me/ Black Abaya collection for the past few weeks. Selecting, choosing, deciding, designing and photo shooting all black dresses for weeks. It gets to my nerved. I felt ‘eaten alive’ by the color … hate it (the emo me kan?). But, being a professional (I shall think so lol) … I tried to focus more on the journey and the moment spent while completing the collection instead of the heart wrecking feelings. After I completed all my ‘dark’ work … I decided to play with my colorful beads … a treat to a “tired” mind and soul he he he.

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Double Strings bracelets from black, dark grey, cream, white and pink pearls

So, I decide to create some bracelets that would match GayaIzzah.com ‘completely’ black abaya. And, pearls look so good if paired with a perfect minimalist black dress. Yeay! for myself as at now … I have 13 strings of bracelets in different shade of pearls. Half of it will be for my own collection … and the rest will be up for sale in GayaIzzah.com.

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My pearl bracelet collection

Alhamdullilah … My heart felt a little lighter today than last week and I am all geared up for my next photography trip to India this weekend. This trip will be my first photography trip in 2015 … uhh I can’t hardly wait. I heard a lot of not so good stories about India especially for a female traveller like me … and I am about to find out and discover the true hidden germ of India …. lol. Wish me luck …

Cheers

MM

 

p/s My quote of the day – I am busy getting STRONGER!

 

 

 

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December 22, 2014

Singing my Heart Out

By Matsuda Mashimaru
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My own red coral on cotton strands bracelet

We are moving closer to the end of 2014. The best way to celebrate the end of such an adventurous year is to be with your lovely partners, family and friends … right? And I am blessed with tonnes of love from my family and lovely friends. I will be joining GayaIzzah.com team at @ruangatsubang  SS15 Subang Jaya, organized by @malaysiastreetfest on the 27th December 2014. We will be having our first public appearance there (with the rest of other traders 😛 )… and hopefully it will be the start for more and more public appearance from GayaIzzah.com. Hope to see some of you there too …

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Segregating and checking on my bracelet stocks

Just came back home from my family vacation trip and end of the year is always the busiest as I needed to prepare my children for their 2015 school session. Being a mother is still my top priority job … and because of that little “peter pan” in  me (aka my playful nature) , I always need to be reminded that I have children that will always looking up on me lol.

Someone said that “One has to be an open palm. As soon as it clenches into a fist, the person looses the ability to learn and to enjoy new things. And, that is the onset of old age”. Thanks to my inner little “peter pan”, as at today … I still feel the joy of experiencing and learning new things.

Opps a bit side track here …

So, I promised GayaIzzah.com team for a proper jewelry collection during this year end event … and a promise is a promise (honestly I am so sleepy and tired right now). A good thing about doing something that I am so passionate about is … no matter how tired I am, at any time … when my hand touches my jewelry tools I will get excited again like that energizer bunny.

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Restringing, improvising and redesigning my bracelet stock is in progress. Counting my time … need to finish this before Thursday.

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Reproducing some more of these dreamy butterfly with pearls bracelet. This bracelet is one of my best seller. A bit dreamy kind of bracelet but …. I am a sucker for dreams, fantasy, fairies and elves

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A new bracelet design that I wanted to share with you. Bracelets made from snail shell beads combined with tiny little charms. Yeah … it is from real snail shells 🙂

I really need my power sleep tonight. Being up late for quite a number of nights already … hopefully I could complete both the bracelet stock and the bracelet catalog before Friday. And, I hope to see all of you this Saturday, 27th December 2014 In Sha Allah …

Cheers

MM

p/s my mind is singing Colbie Caillat song … ‘Try’ right now. Beautiful song with good melody and lyrics. Here is her “Try” music video … a soft reminder for myself to reduce buying unnecessary things just to impress others 😉

Get your shopping on,
At the mall,
Max your credit cards
You don’t have to choose,
Buy it all
So they like you. Do they like you?Wait a second,
Why should you care, what they think of you
When you’re all alone, by yourself
Do you like you? Do you like you?You don’t have to try so hard
You don’t have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don’t have to change a single thingYou don’t have to try so hard
You don’t have to bend until you break
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don’t have to change a single thingYou don’t have to try, try, try, try
You don’t have to try

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August 23, 2014

Color of the beach

By Matsuda Mashimaru
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A blissful day at the beach

I love beach. When I am facing fear face to face,  after putting my ultimate hope towards my Almighty Creator to wash off my fear, I played a mental game of peace by imagining myself at the beach.  Laying on the sand while listening to the sound of the waves were like a free therapy to the soul. But … a hyperactive me can only stayed idle for half an hour (the most) and then the explorer ME would start kicking out ;-). What will I do when I am at the beach? Note: click on the picture to view full photos

Hanging around the beach with a camera is so much fun. Apart from shooting the same old sunset and sunrise, shooting moon rising (full moon) is also a cool thing to do.  Watching the moon rising slowly while enjoying the night breeze is priceless. I did that once with my lovely ‘chatty’ daughter, yeah she talked a lot and I could not focus well 🙂 . And, like all the time we ended up doing our cat fight while watching the moon and me kept telling her to keep her voice low and she kept on reminding me that I love my camera more than her arghhh!.

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I hope that I will have another chance to shoot moon rising again. Need proper planning next time

I am thinking of creating a bracelet and a matching necklace that would remind me of the beach. I want to make it a bit dreamy with tangling stones hanging around my pendant. So, a mixture of milky colored agate stones; milky colored shell beads; ‘silverish’ colored pearl seed beads; ‘sand brown’ colored glass seed beads; some metal starfish beads and a big steel pendant to add some drama into it; and wallah! a dreamy necklace 😉 .

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The beads

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The necklace. I wish I have a tall proper stand to fully display my necklace. Been looking for one but nothing catch my eyes yet …

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The bracelet. Generic jewelry display rack sold at most shops looked awkwardly dull to me.  I think they cater more towards mass produced jewelry and not for a hobbyist like me. So, I just used anything that is available around my working area to display my jewelry

I think pearls would look good in this design too. The ‘milky powdered’ color of pearls in different sizes matched with some milky shell beads and peach colored zircon pendant would feel more genuinely ‘beach’. If you want to know detail description of each jewelry piece here please check it out at GayaIzzah.com Facebook page and GayaIzzah.com  IG account or you can just email me directly 😉 . Off ME goooo to the dreamland ….. enjoy yeah …

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This is another set of mix sized pearls, white moonstone, milky colored shell beads, glass seed beads, pear like seed beads, steel beads and a Zircon pendant

 

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The same dreamy necklace design but with different size of pearls, shell beads, white moonstones and peach colored zircon pendant

 

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The matching pearl bracelet

Cheers,

MM

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