Thursday, February 18, 2010

Farah Ahmed, an ex-army wife is a homemaker and a house entrepreneur. Married for the last 12 years, she is also an artist who makes gift items and house decorative.

She decisive to be a home maker, but she did not want to sit idle. As she was also an art lover, her love for arts and crafts resurfaced and in progress doing craftwork painting as a hobby.

In one of her new places of residence, Farah got a possibility to work with AWWA (Army Wives Welfare Association), where she learnt a figure of crafts being taught in the AWWA Vocational Institute. This triggered off her obsession towards craftworks, and once her husband quit the Army, she decided to make this hobby into a career.

She makes a variety of types of handicraft gift items like coasters, paintings (madhubani, Warli, nib painting, Egyptian painting, etc.), murals, pen-stands, etc. She also makes equipment on order, and put up exhibitions.

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