Happy 2013

Blue Lotus is 26 months old and our brands age between 26 months and 4 weeks and couple of them still waiting to arrive on planet earth.

BluPear  being the oldest and Chhottu Buzz being the youngest and Buzzaria being somewhere in the middle.

As most start ups important point,not all start ups most start ups one sees numerous amounts of working challenges.

Finance normally tops the list,closely followed by the people your organization is about,and nudging the other two and moving them of their place is logistics,distribution and the govt do's and don'ts...I am clubbing the three of them as they are capable of shaking any organization from top to bottom.

2012 saw us reeling too,we kept getting back into the saddle :) though a lot bruised and a bit battered :)

We continued with our goals kept on with our focus and declared we are made of a metal which is superior and tough :) time for Clang Clan to take birth.One of our new brands its all about glass and metal,too very extremes by nature,one fragile and one hard as a nail.

Life is many times just like Clang Clan and so is our behavior and our emotions:) I am sure all of us can relate to this without my giving a detailed description.

So,here we are saying a hello and a welcome with all of you to 2013....and sharing what we want to remember of 2012 in 2013

Chhottu Buzz- The birth of a new format of retail for us at Blue Lotus

Clang Clan- All about glass and metal

BuzzouQ - an event a bazaar rather a curated bazaar for one and all

BuzzPort -Supportive services 

MabrouQ...All about Arabic Clothing

Much Love
Mamta Mamta

Weekend Buzzaria at ATS Noida Sept 2012

Moushumi arrived at Buzzaria,the day of the inauguration,brought in by Aarti and that was my first connect with her.Couple of weeks later we were again talking this time with the thought of her doing a Weekend Buzzaria at her home in ATS Noida.She would get Aarti to talk on her behalf.She was hesitant and nervous and unsure of most things.Her twinkling eyes which I am now used to were filed with concern in those days.
A year later Moushumi has come into her own.Wow :) I love it,each time I see the transformation.The empowered women is a delight to watch.

Her 4th Weekend Buzzaria is around the corner and she is confident and excited.In the last few months she took Buzzaria on the Move to Goa and was with us at  The Indian Market Place we created at Diwane Khas, Taj Delhi, the two BuzzouQ's and the Fashion Make Over by Social Potpourri at Buzzaria.

All the above events have allowed her to connect to her skill sets,the journey into learning social media has allowed this stay at home mom to add a new dimension to her learning curve.

I am so proud of her and now she is guiding Priyanka another stay at home Mom,Priyanka has a small baby and a 90 year old grandmother to look after.

Each time I see my work as THE Entrepreneur Alchemist create results....my soul starts to sing.
Moushumi keep it up,your journey has just begun and you have far to go.I am so happy for you :)

For all those this attached invite is the next Weekend Buzzaria she is setting up...do attend :)

Me - Mamta Mamta :)

GodBless Candles and Blessings

Nuteez Shorts

Nuteez Gal's

Arushi modelling for Nuteez - I am Wild :)

BluPear at it's best

Kashish and BluPear :) Footwear that make your feet Happy :)

Buzzaria ...Need I say More...

Kashish and Free Spirited ( loads of connect with the brand name )

Mimathyma

Handmade Toys filled with Love ( machine washable)

Twisty Pads by 61C

Kashish and Roses and so much more

Soap Really!!! By Nourish

Hand Painted Paisley's

Coffee Caper by The Elephant Company

Sippers by The Elephant Company

Recycled - Tyre sling Bag by Green the Gap

Quirk Box Floor Lamps

I Pad Covers 

OWLS so beautiful by HandsOn...and my mascot :)

Crow

Gayatri's collectibles The Hip and happening COW :)

Crow - A delight for many( too many in love with this stuff )

More hand painted stuff ( Art as accessories)

Coaster and More by Very Indian

Meri Jaan a hot favorite with all

Buzzaria (A multi brand retail store)

Buzzaria - An Indian Bazaar.....By Blue Lotus

For Women....By Women

The name has originated from the word "Bajaria" the local market at Sawai Madhopur.I am and was in complete fascination with the name and the local bazaar.Voila! one day while staying at The Ranthambhore Bagh.....I knew I am going to call my store Bajaria or inspired from that word....I was wondering maybe bazaria...buzaaria....and then Eureka :) next minute I got the word Buzzaria...what fun I was maha impressed with myself...haha....

Why an Indian Bazaar???

India is rich in culture.I find the diversification fascination. The varied religions,languages,traditions and festivals.

The colors,the spices,the artisans and the CRAFT…makes me wonder, how can one country have so much beauty.

My country makes me dance…the music, the dance forms, the talent.

With equal love and enthusiasm we accept all that comes from other cultures,the luxuries,the brands,the art of retail, the twists n turns in the food palette :)

So,an Indian Bazaar is an amalgam of all the above and ever changing and ever growing.

Buzaaria is the synthesis of an Indian Bazaar. A Bazaar Buzzing in all possible ways.

Buzzaria the brand belongs to Blue Lotus.

Blue Lotus has seven more brands

GodBless - Candles and Blessings

Mimathyma- Fashion as varied as the Butterflies

MeriJaan- Fun with Color and Textiles

EcoStorey - Go Green,Go Eco Friendly...that's the Buzz

HandsOn - The Handmade World

IamRa - Healing Services and Products

BluPear - The Indian Ethnic Chappals for your paer :)

All the above brands and many more by various social enterprises, NGOs,Fair Trade Organizations,Product Designers and Fashion Designers.

Women Entrepreneurs and various start ups of 2011 in the design space have come together in one space to give you a glimpse of the India...of the Now. 

Buzzaria is the traditional,the ethnic,the contemporary,the new,the modern,the latest,the old,the fashionable,the hip and the fun stuff all do a merry dance together.

The choice is humongous,you have to see it to believe it :)) 

http://www.facebook.com/GodBless.Blessings

http://www.facebook.com/Mimathyma

http://www.facebook.com/MeriJaan.Bluelotus

http://www.facebook.com/EcoStorey

http://www.facebook.com/HandsOn.Bluelotus

http://www.facebook.com/IamRa.Lotus

http://www.facebook.com/BluPear

So now you are part of the process of the birth of Buzzaria...Thanks for reading this story.

Love n GodBless... Mamta Mamta

Location

Bhram House F/343 Lado Sarai, Old M.B. Road, Mehrauli,Near Crescent Mall, New Delhi, India 110030

Hours

Mon - Sun: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm

Email

buzzaria.ra@gmail.com, bluelotus.connect@gmail.com

Phone

+91 11 45793261,+91 9873550983

Website

http://bluelotus-diary.blogspot.com/

Directions

If you are coming in from IIT,please take the 5th left and once you cross the CNG petrol pump and crescent mall...kindly turn left touching the mall wall and we are the 2nd building on the right.

If coming in from Gurgaon,you will need to go ahead take a U turn and come back.

If coming in from Qutab Minar,you will again have to do the same as above.

If coming in from Saket,Sainik Farm,or Saket Metro Station

known as Mehrauli Badarpur Road

After Saket metro Station,there is a red light,go ahead,for around 4 minutes till you see a cut on the right.

Enter into Lado Sarai,the cut is on your right.There is a board saying Ch.Prem Singh,come in and take the road parallel to the main road known as Old M.B Road,ths is basically to your left.So right and them immediate left.

You will immediately come across maharaja carpet,we are the other end of this road,an approx 10 minutes walk/drive.....you will come out at the other end next to crescent mall..

We are right next to Super Tyre House.

Actually visible if you peep in immediately after Crescent Mall Ends.

Nearest Metro Station - Saket

phn 011-45793261

M - 9873550983

Buzzaria DELHI’S BEST NEW SHOP (in TimeOut magazine Nov 2011)

DELHI’S BEST NEW SHOPS

Buzzaria

In a city where kitsch is king, a new store with its whimsical wares is sure to create the right buzz. Welcome Buzzaria: a loud mela of kitsch and Indo-Western merchandise.

Mango walls with pink paisley greet you at the entrance. The inside is a mélange of every possible hue. Variously coloured portions of the walls provide a backdrop to the different brands, merging perfectly with the bright merchandise.

After running Tribal Route in Mumbai, owner Mamta Mamta returned to the city with a new store under the umbrella of her mother brand Blue Lotus. Buzzaria has six in-house and over 20 others brands at present. Each range has a different story to tell. If you are in the mood for an ethnic shopping spree, turn to hand-embroidered chappals from BluPear, healing crystals from IamRa, vibrant kaftans with block prints and beadwork from Mimathyma, or brocade silk bikini cholis paired with ghaghra skirts from Meri Jaan.

In a philanthropic mood? The chunky pearl-and-kundan handmade jewellery from Hands On (run by an NGO) or stuffed toy owls made by autistic children are sure to make you feel better about spending. And the rustic home accessories made of guava wood, coconuts shells and other natural materials from EcoStorey certainly get the green signal from us.

However, if kitsch’s your thing, jump with joy, as the store is the first to bring Mumbai brands Quirkbox and Bechain Nagri to our city. Slip into kooky pop-art dresses, shorts and jackets from Quirkbox, give vent to your mixed emotions with T-shirts from Ediots, overdose on Bollywood with bags and clutches from Item Number, and finally, try matching the illustrations of NID designers with your own doodles in notebooks from Bechain Nagri.  

Before you decide to make a pit stop at this little shop though, be forewarned that it’s not likely to be a quick stop. And once the store ropes in new brands and expands out to fill its basement and first floors, the hours spent browsing here could lengthen to days. Akshita Nahar

F- 343 Bhram House, Old MB Road, Lado Sarai (4579-3261). Qutab Minar. Daily 11am-9pm. Products from Rs.25.

http://www.timeoutdelhi.net/consume/shopping_details.asp?code=554&source=1

The Exhibition @Gurgaon

Last weekend we had taken over my friend Sangeeta’s living room and her life :)


My very own Indian Bazaar…was born in April 2011.An experiment, which brought immense happiness, contentment and excitement .Me and the family whose home I had taken over all were so exhilarated with the entire experience that I repeated the entire exercise, a month later.Voila!!! We were very successful, yet again, being in love with retail, I was super excited.Two months in a row, same location, both the exhibitions super successes…WOW!

I tried counting the number of colors,failed miserably:)

The first exhibition, the first customer was my friend Sangeeta and she asked me to hold an exhibition at her home. I dilly dallied for couple of months and then kind of closed in on some date.Spreading the word, sending sms, emails, designing the marketing all brings up lots of harrowed folks, but, then the adrenalin rush when the final products are all ready is a great ego booster.This time we had designed a poster, first time we saw all our brands on a single surface, felt GOOD!Designing each logo, coming up with the brand idea and then the brand name, most of it, is though, all jumbled up inside you and from the clutter; you have to reach the space of complete clarity.This process takes sometimes very little time and sometimes, months and years.    






                                         We are a start up, and like any start up have lots of teething issues, and also I found people cannot fathom the variety of brands, it will eventually sink in…The entire idea being so new.At the end of this exhibition, I felt the exhibition requires its own unique identity, Moving Bazaar,Bazaar on the Move, Home Bazaar, and many such options floated around and then I decided on “Weekend Buzzaria”

I am sure the Giraffe never expected this 

My team and I met Sangeeta and her family and all her friends, for those three days we were part of their lives. Phoebe the 6-month-old Yorkshire terrier stole our heart. The domestic help, the two maids who informed me when I entered ,Oh she won’t answer her phone as she is not near her phone:) this was in response to my query of where is Sangeeta? They loved the stuff and spent hours helping us set up the Bazaar, and what do I find, the next day, they came shopping and not only that they invited their friends too. This was simply fantastic. 


The BluPear Chappals crossed all income barriers :)


Sangeeta’s mother in law and sister in law live on the ground floor. Aunty I have known for 30 odd years as Sangeeta’s husband Vicky (Vivek Chopra) is my classmate from school. Though this was the first time, I was getting an opportunity to show her, what I do. I had brought everything to her doorstep.

Aunty Sukirta is an energy healer, has been teaching Reiki for a very long time. She does PLR sessions, angel card readings, crystal therapy, theta healing etc, so Aunty does not really go on regular shopping jaunts. When I saw my Bazaar from her eyes, I felt so good…so very good.


A friend’s friend Anjuli visited with her friend and they were amazed at the range of products, they fell in love, with the Skirts, the Chappals and the Jewelry. They shopped to their hearts content, continuously declaring that they are very conservative shoppers, they do not know what has come over them. Then they came back the next day, Ira, with her daughter who was wearing her mother’s slippers bought the previous day. Oh, I was on cloud nine seeing this little girl smiling her feet dazzling with the silver BluPear Chappals, and she bought one more for her daughter & her daughter’s friend. Anjuli came back too with her husband to look for more skirts,Mimathyma skirts were a big hit.

All tables were covered with Jewelry - no food here :)

The star of the show though was Shweta Chopra, Sangeeta’s daughter; her birthday is around the corner.All her aunts bought her gifts of her choice; she got herself lots n lots of Mimathyma skirts.Shweta is in first Year College and is not into truly ethnic Indian attire, but she loved the skirts as they appealed to her as fun n young and yet Indian enough to make her mom happy that she was willing to wear something other than her shorts.I am sure we will come back to the Chopra household this time invited by Shweta, next year, very close to her birthday…Ha-Ha


Vir for the first time saw so many women all in the span of 3 days shopping to their hearts content:)and that too at his home. Moreover, of course when we had issues, with the tempo guy and the packing staff, not turning up and dear Vir, even with his fractured arm, decided to assist us in best possible fashion. You see he was the man of the house for those 3 days as his dad was out of town.


Namita,Sangeeta’s sister in law, came straight from school, she is a teacher, she looked at me with her twinkling eyes and said you know I saw your poster I had to come straight to the first floor, without even going home for lunch, I just couldn’t resist. The glee I saw made me forget all the stress n strain of setting up the bazaar:)


I can go on and on about Sangeeta’s hospitality, the lovely coffee, the food, the garden her lovely home and her smiling and calm face, but she will make mince meat of me:)
Oh I can surely tell you she is a wonderful Business Coach, and also completely involved in running the training workshops on Productivity.(Mission Control Productivity Workshop)


I also got a chance to meet my school batchmate Kamal, after some 30 odd years. He spent practically an hour pouring over all the jewelry and picking up stuff for his nieces, daughter and wife. It was very gratifying to see that a Man could also go through such a humungous range ofproducts and ask us the why and how’s about many of the pieces.


Our bazaar did attract a fan from FB Arunima, who came in saying she saw the Chappals on FB, bought one pair, went out down the stairs and after few minutes came back and said give me the other one too.
I think that has been the fastest return customer :)


Thanks Anu Behl for coming all the way from GK2....for the IamRa Bracelets


Thanks Nilufer for taking our visiting cards to your dinner party :)
Thanks Kiku, Meena, Nandini.
Thanks Kavita, Sagrika, Anita, Anu, Dr Deepika, Kanika, Mehek, Sarviki, Urmi and all the other whose names I could not gather. 
Special thanks to the gentleman who came and asked for the cards with store address and said we look forward to visiting your store, start it soon. He spent an hour choosing stuff for his wife and daughters.
Special thanks to Sonu Vandanaa Chhabra, Sonia Sharma (I am sure you saw your groove), Preiti Singh, Sumita Pant Joshi


We are still, fine-tuning, the art of moving our goodies. Moreover, while going to Gurgaon found us in a very helpless situation. In walked an old friend Sunil heading back to Gurgaon and offered to carry a carload of stuff:) And in the bargain i discovered he is a collector and one of his passions is to collect Hundis (Promissory Notes) Then on our way, back I asked my cargo person who happens to be Sunil too, to help us out, he and his dad came to take the stuff but the helpers did not turn up:( Sunil who now turned into an angel moved all the big boxes all by himself and got us home well before it turned midnight :)If anyone is looking for a good cargo guy Gautam Roadways are good people.


Now off to do more planning work for the next one this one is atAabha’s home in.Noida

Love n Happiness n Happy Shopping 

Mamta Mamta

BluPear

BluPear is an Indian Ethnic Footwear Brand.

The Embroidery is done by local craftswomen. 

They are extremely friendly to the pocket are sold in a size set which contains 10-12 pieces per style. We have been designing & selling these Chappals for the last 5 years.

The Chappals carry a Tag of Rs 350/- and Rs 400/- (This Price is applicable for India-Taxes Extra)

Available Sizes: 35,36,37,38,39,40,41. 

Currently BluPear is on display in a few select stores in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Lucknow, Indore and soon in Ujjain.

The Mission--We want to create sustainable livelihood for the people involved not just in manufacturing but bringing forward this beautifully handcrafted product to the masses.