Hand embroidered Peacock Tray

Hand embroidered serving tray

Rangoli: Decorative art piece

This is a decorative folk art from India.
In Hindu culture, Swastika shape is considered to bring good luck and prosperity.
The decorative art can be kept outside the main door or inside the house.

Concentric earrings

White Gold Concentric Earrings
Dangling earrings beautifully frame the face. The 14K white Gold dangling earrings are studded with 1.50 carats of brilliant diamonds. This clip on earrings has 3 concentric circles with dangling diamonds. If gifted, it will be a much appreciated gift.

Diamond prices

Diamond prices reached an all-time high in the second quarter 2011. Prices are up 40 to 50 percent year-over-year. A 1-carat round diamond that cost $6,000 at this time last year is now retailing for $9,000.

How good can a wine be if it is cheap ?

Read an interesting article on Wine and money by Matt Kramer in wine spectator magazine :
One of the great myths about wine and money : How good can a wine be if it is cheap ?

The actual cost of producing an indisputably great wine is surprisingly small ($15 a bottle for everything to do with creating and bottling a first growth Bordeaux or a fancy Napa cabernet wine.)

The wines are priced higher due to the following reasons:
1) Marketing costs and overheads.

2) Emerging wine nations like Portugal, Chile, Hungary, South Africa, Greece, Argentina feel that unless and until wines are dressed in high price, nobody will believe how good their wines are.

3) Consumers value more what costs them more. So, better to charge as high a price as possible.

Price and quality co-relations exist at lower price points e:g $15 to $20 a bottle. But above that level, the relationship between wine quality and high price is a marriage of convenience: your lust and their calculation.

Retailers minimize the stock of inexpensive wines, because margins on inexpensive wines are slim & shelf space is limited.
Moreover there is more money in selling high priced wines, so since retailers are in business to make money, they do not like to stock inexpensive wines.
After all why would you pay $40 for a bottle if you are tantalized by something selling for $10? And once the consumer discovers how good the $10 bottle is, he will not buy the $40 wine. So in every sense, there is no money in selling cheap wine.

Source: Winespectator magazine April 30 2011

Tiffany painting

The painting is of a newly married beautiful young lady named Tiffany :
Tiffany is resting in her village and cooling herself with a hand operated fan. Her garments, her jewelry around the neck, on the forehead show that she has elegant taste. But her face reveals that responsibilities are on the top of her mind

Lord Hanuman