Pioneers of Advanced Handmade Mediterranean Gourd Lamps

Greetings from sunny, happy Alanya, one of the most charming towns in the East Mediterranean. Alanya is an inspiration itself, the Mediterranean is an inspiration itself, the nomadic culture is an inspiration itself and add the biggest inspiration, LIFE itself on top of all these, I just can't stop thinking how lucky I am to be existing on this part of the world. Every now and then, I will be hosting someone in my workshop who wants to learn gourd craft. What we show to these

Sometimes, no matter how busy it is, I take my time to give a break for several reasons. But before anything, these little breaks are the sake of my craft quality. Thankfully and thanks to yourselves, Rising Star has made a magnificent start to the year 2018. If we go with this speed of sales for the rest of the year, we will reach last year's figure halfway before the year ends. Thanks a million. And as you can imagine, the workshop is very very busy. As this is a little bre

I tend to believe that 2018 will be a great year, a year which I will remember for the rest of my life and again I believe in a very very good way. Businesswise, it has been a great start but creativity-wise it has been even better. I and my colleagues at Rising Star decided on a few objectives in January which we believed that would take Rising Star further in gourd craft. As I write these sentences by mid-March, I believe we will be able to achieve these objectives. Having

I know that I haven't been able to write a blog post for a while but didn't realize that it has been over two weeks already. Woow. That's a long time but surely that was a busy period. Thankfully, Rising Star started the new year quite successfully and the first two months have been the best ever since we focused on gourd lamps. Considering that it is the slowest time of the year, I am proud that we reached a satisfactory level of sales figure which we didn't expect at this t

I always underline that Rising Star is a progressive workshop. When I say 'progressive', most of the time, I mention about the designs that you see. But there are other things that most people will not recognize immediately unless they are from the industry or have in-depth knowledge about the materials that we use or what we make. For me, progession has many dimensions to its meaning but we mostly talk about the design side of our craft. February marks another stage in Risin

It's getting busier at Rising Star Workshop and I couldn't find time to spare on our blog lately. I know we don't have loads of followers that are not worried about reading new articles but I like the blog and committed to keep it going. On a sleepless Tuesday night in Alanya, I couldn't find a better thing to do but let yourselves hear about us and the new gourd lamp designs we made since the beginning of February. I presume the most important thing is the inclusion of Mete

A cold friday night in the Eastern Mediterranean resort of Alanya might be boring unless you make your own way.

As far as I am concerned, tulips are the only flowers that create one single tulip from a single bulb. Unlike the rest of the flowers which

A rainy Saturday afternoon in the wonderful resort of Alanya. We left behind the summer'17 season only a few weeks ago and now we are preparing to leave behind the year 2017. Although it has been a successful year for 'Rising Star' (with a few hick-ups), I don't feel the same for the humanity. I don't necessarily think that it has gone worse but definitely no improvement. Why do I think the humanity hasn't gone worse? Because I believe that it has always been this way. I look

Instead of sending an email or a message of a digital kind, I wanted to pass our Christmas message with a short blog post. I don't think it has been a smooth and an easy year for many people, not necessarily only in our region but for most of the world. It looks like there is a tension of some kind almost anywhere in the world. For people like us, it is hard to understand these occurrences that surround us in a negative way. I could never understand what's that we can't share