Tinawati and Yulina are having a little joke while beading, they always light up our home with jokes and songs.
Ayu is Busy helping with the packing of the baskets for our shipment.
There are so much fun working together where the younger easily can learn from the older beader to do patterns technique, sharing is the key to create a great working environment for us all. Everyone is family and should be well taken care.
Collections of our seeds bead and the wooden tray for the beads that's used for the works.

Pictures from our workshop

Having little drink after the shootings, it feels great ....and refreshing.

Pictures of Our Activities

the road to our home.

Anta doesn't want to miss his chance to be in the photograph without his traditonal outfits.
On our way home from the rice paddies shootings. We did some shootings for the future website.

Trying to get a better shots for them, but they are just beautiful from different angle.
Kids are posing in traditional balinese outfits at nearby rice paddies from where we live. They are all look very gorgous.

Pictures of our workshop

All the boxes are ready for shipping.
Wayan is counting and checking all the baskets before packing them into the box. We put cutting paper to make sure that the baskets are well protected during the shipping.
Ni Wayan Nilayanti is cleaning up the baskets before wrapping them with bubble wrap. We make sure than all the basket has a tag and beader's name tag in it. we provide the profile of the beader, so our customer has an information of the artists who beaded the basket.
Ni Made Reti Miani and Ni Made Listiyawati are wrapping the basket with bubble wrap and preparing for the packing list.

The kids help me in packaging. I share with them to do a good packing for our works. We use bubble wraps to protect the beads from hitting each other, to minimize the possible damages that caused by the long journey that our works takes in shipping to the US and Europe.

Everyone is helping in packing some baskets for clients. We work hand in hand as a family.

On the porch of our house, we have everyone enjoying their beading and having lots of jokes

Ni Komang Ayu Nita, our new participant in our workshop and she has been enjoying her beading time and getting some small basket done. She is truly a cute little girl.

New Participants at our workshop!

There have been a few more kids who have joined us in our workshop over the last few days and they are all very excited to join the team and learning to bead from the older kids. Our home have been more alive when more kids who are coming home after school. It is wonderful to see how well motivated they all are. We hope that we are going to be able to keep the work available for all of them and having the opportunity to help all these children for a better life.

They are still studying at elementary school and they go to school at 7.30 am and finish at 12.00 PM, so after lunch and doing their necessary homeworks, they come to our home and beading together with other kids. It is nothing more beautiful in life than having so much loving kids at your home, it makes your world more alive and excited. I love them all very much.

Ni Nyoman Ayu Nita

Date of birth: May 30th, 1998
Home Address: Bali-Indonesia.

Ni Nyoman Herpinati

Date of birth: August 28th, 1996
Home Address: Bali-Indonesia.

Ni Made Wiwintari

Date of birth: December 15th, 1997
Home Address: Bali-Indonesia.