Blossoming Harmony

Our shop, Blossoming Harmony, is in the Shalimar Shopping Centre right in the middle of the Colaba Market area. If you know Colaba at all, you know how packed that market gets with people and small stalls every day. The shopping centre is an older building, and our unit is just a simple space where we keep all our supplies and tools. We spend most of our early mornings dealing with the local vendors and the noise coming from the street. It is not a quiet or particularly peaceful place, even if the name sounds like it might be. It is actually quite loud with people shouting and horns honking outside our window. We have materials tucked into every single corner, and the floor is usually a bit wet or covered in leaves and cut stems. There isn't a lot of room for a big desk, so we usually just work on a plain wooden counter in the back room. We don't have a fancy website or a bunch of people walking around in suits. It is just a couple of us who have lived and worked in this part of Mumbai our whole lives. We take the orders as they come and try to keep everything organized in our heads. Sometimes the elevator in the building doesn't work, so we end up carrying heavy boxes up and down the stairs ourselves. It is just how things go.