Houseguest: Melissa de la Fuente
Ding dong... oh hey! Please help me welcome a very special friend...
Hello lovely readers of Heart Handmade! Melissa here from Melissa loves, and so excited to do an artist spotlight feature with the lovely and extremely talented Geeta from Babette. Geeta's work leaves me breathless, gorgeous leather cut into beautiful flowers and leaves, lovely beading and plenty of sparkle! Elegant and glamorous! I am a huge fan and am so happy to be guesting on dear Marichelle's blog so I could introduce Geeta's new spring line for Babette!
This is a fun one so, sit back and enjoy! Thank you for having me here and Geeta, thank you for taking part!
Hi, my name is Geeta, thanks so much to Melissa for choosing to interview me and to Marichelle for sharing her space! I live in northern NJ with my husband and two little girls. I work as a full-time mother and concocted a 'business venture' last year to keep myself amused and provide a mental escape from life in suburbia. I am originally from London, a fashion designer by profession and worked in London and on 7th Ave, NYC before stopping to have children.
>> My Workspace...
>> click here to continue reading about Geeta
>> Random facts...
I grew up in NW London and went to the same high school as Twiggy.





>> 10 Things I can't live without it...
Bit of a tricky one as most of the things I can't live without are not material, but here goes:
1. The sound of my children's laughter
2. Beauty: natural and man made
3. Dreams
4. Music
5. Tools: my hands, my vision, camera, pencil, paper, scissors
6. Fruit
7. Love
8. The Internet
9. My Diesel sneakers, the softest things ever!
10. Jeans, jeans, jeans!
>> My home...

>> My Wishlist
1. A place to sit painting
2. Wooden Pinocchio
3. Mor Mor Rita child's sweater
4. Sirch modern dollhouse
5. Essimar print

6. ABC print by Bread and Butter shop
7. Iris photograph by Wannabes
8. B&W photograph by Ena and the Swan
9. Tim Walker book
10. Gold leafed candle holders by Jean Pelle
>> A day in my life...
This is how my day played out, (like any typical mother, I have very little time for my venture):
6.15 am Internal alarm clock wakes me up and I face my biggest challenge: Getting my 5 year out of bed, dressed, fed and off to school. My experiment using humour seems to be working! It involves me taking on silly persona's (leprechaun, robot etc), to cajole her out of her sleep. I discover that Lila likes robots and leprechauns more than me in the early morning hours.


I rapidly check emails and a couple of blogs I love...this reminds me that I am not alone. Today I have to photograph a couple of new jewelry pieces. I have no use of a supermodel...Giselle is a bit busy, so I'll be turning the camera on myself. I have a quick change of clothes, choose a vintage lacy cardigan, tie up my hair and find the best light possible. As I'm averse to figuring out how the self timer works on my camera, I forgo the tripod and the possibility of achieving pictures that are actually in focus....oh, well, I consider blurred photography to be an interesting technique! I simply turn the camera back on myself and shoot off 40 or so shots. I keep fingers crossed and hope for the best.














Visit Geeta's shop at babetteworld.etsy.com
Photos: Geeta Patel
Melis it was nice to have you over. Come by anytime!!


I am a mom of two hilarious and beautiful girls and the wife and partner to their awesome dad. I couldn't do much without their support and love. I am an actress by trade but, find happiness in all the little things in life and share most of them here on a daily basis. I am a confessed
7 comments:
What a great feature - I feel I've learned tons about Geeta! I'm going to check her work out now.
You're an actress!!!???
Getaway! I'm speechless and awestruck:)
Thank you for the lovely job featuring me Melissa, I'm totally blushing!
YAY! Geeta! Thank you Marichelle for having us and I am so happy to take part in this awesome series! Geeta is a gem and if I had a million necks I would own every one of her pieces....:)
xoxo
Melis
Thank you so much for sharing a little peek into your life. And thanks to Melissa for introducing me to Geeta's work, simple gorgeous!
wow! so beautiful--her work is divine and i love seeing glimpses of other people's workspaces--it makes me want to reorgainize!
Thank you so much Melis for introducing us to the lovely Geeta! Geeta, I'm so thrilled to have your work featured here. Melis has been telling me about your stuff for a while now and she wasn't exaggerating one bit - your work is exquisite , can't wait to meet you!!
Hi Lynne, Jules, & Deb (miss you!) - thanks so much for stopping by to say hello!!
x
Marichelle
it's great to see melissa here. i loved her feature about geeta and seeing her workspace!
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