I was so thrilled and almost cried.
For the story on Apartment Therapy, you can check here. For the complete story and photos on this blog, you can check here.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Kanaya's Birthday @ Apartment Therapy
Couple days ago, I got a surprise: an email from Dabney Frake said that Kanaya's birthday party would be on Apartment Therapy's Family channel on Friday!
I was so thrilled and almost cried.
For the story on Apartment Therapy, you can check here. For the complete story and photos on this blog, you can check here.
I was so thrilled and almost cried.
For the story on Apartment Therapy, you can check here. For the complete story and photos on this blog, you can check here.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Lionel's motorcycle birthday favors
Many birthdays happened last February. Kanaya's, my hubby's, our anniversary, and Lionel's.
Lionel is my dear friend Maria's son, who turned 4 last February. He's so crazy about motorcycle so it became the theme. So I did this for Maria:
Paper bag, coloring book and crayons. Ordered the paper bag from meihuazone (plain orange), and filled plastic with Maped crayons. I did some last minute printables for the paper bag stickers, coloring books and crayon labels.
Maria also ordered cupcakes (from our friend Lili) & chocolate lolly (from Maria's friend) with my printables on it.
So, here is the complete set:
Lionel is my dear friend Maria's son, who turned 4 last February. He's so crazy about motorcycle so it became the theme. So I did this for Maria:
Paper bag, coloring book and crayons. Ordered the paper bag from meihuazone (plain orange), and filled plastic with Maped crayons. I did some last minute printables for the paper bag stickers, coloring books and crayon labels.
Maria also ordered cupcakes (from our friend Lili) & chocolate lolly (from Maria's friend) with my printables on it.
So, here is the complete set:
Shabby chic accessories organizer
Before I say anything, I better apologize for being more consumed with my Instagram and nearly abandoning my blog. Yes Instagram is so much fun... Anyway follow my Instagram @moshethings and you'll find more of my recent activities there.
Back to the title... about 2 years ago, I went to Informa & Ace Hardware's big sale and found a broken bathroom vanity mirror. The mirror has gone and only the vanity frame was left, and I bought it for IDR 100,000.- (about US$10). Not long ago, after keeping it for 2 years, I turned it into this:
It became Kanaya's accessories organizer. To store her necklaces, bracelets, & hair bows. Not bad considering it looked like this before:
I told my workshop to add wire mesh on the door & at the back panel, painted it white and it turned into a shabby chic piece. I love restoring...
Back to the title... about 2 years ago, I went to Informa & Ace Hardware's big sale and found a broken bathroom vanity mirror. The mirror has gone and only the vanity frame was left, and I bought it for IDR 100,000.- (about US$10). Not long ago, after keeping it for 2 years, I turned it into this:
It became Kanaya's accessories organizer. To store her necklaces, bracelets, & hair bows. Not bad considering it looked like this before:
I told my workshop to add wire mesh on the door & at the back panel, painted it white and it turned into a shabby chic piece. I love restoring...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Ezra's construction birthday party
Yellow, orange, black & grey were the color scheme for Ezra's 4th birthday party last July. There's barely anything soft and cute in this construction party.
This is the dessert table...
The cake is by my sweet neighbor Astrid from Cupcake Rocks. The topper is CAT toy truck.
The cupcakes were offcourse by DapurQ: chocolate cupcakes and my favorite red velvet cupcakes with yellow cream cheese. The construction sign for the topper is edible printing. I used my hubby's tool box to display the cupcakes... It turned out so cool... :)
The tool & truck cookies were also by DapurQ. I bought this tools shape cookie cutter from Etsy and sent it to Mba Riani DapurQ.
I wrapped chocolate Ultra milk boxes with printables said "FUEL". The parents and kids were quite amazed by them. The orange metal toolbox is my hubby's vintage by Hafele.
The favors were tool boxes that my workshop made out of leftover plywood and painted grey. Inside were SIKU construction diecast, Fun Doh plasticine, and tool shape cookie.
The backdrop for games and photo booth was a very simple panel made off painted black plywood and decorated with construction tapes.
Mba Ira from Kertas Krep helped me providing MC for this party. He was funny and the kids loved him.
I almost forget to mention about the kids costume. For Ezra, I bought the vest from ELC, while for the other kids, I actually made them out of bright orange and grey nylon fabric I bought from Tanah Abang. I copy the pattern from the ELC vest (modified it a bit). I might do some tutorial for this vest (I can't promise though). For the construction helmet, I bought them from eBay. The kids were so excited with their costume (I even saw one of the kids - our neighbor - wearing it the next day playing in his frontyard).
If you see some interesting props and custom signs in this party, most of them were made by me and my hubby out of leftover materials from our workshop. It was a great feeling to create a great party with eco-friendly mind...
Happy birthday my little Ezra...
This is the dessert table...
The cake is by my sweet neighbor Astrid from Cupcake Rocks. The topper is CAT toy truck.
The cupcakes were offcourse by DapurQ: chocolate cupcakes and my favorite red velvet cupcakes with yellow cream cheese. The construction sign for the topper is edible printing. I used my hubby's tool box to display the cupcakes... It turned out so cool... :)
The tool & truck cookies were also by DapurQ. I bought this tools shape cookie cutter from Etsy and sent it to Mba Riani DapurQ.
I wrapped chocolate Ultra milk boxes with printables said "FUEL". The parents and kids were quite amazed by them. The orange metal toolbox is my hubby's vintage by Hafele.
The favors were tool boxes that my workshop made out of leftover plywood and painted grey. Inside were SIKU construction diecast, Fun Doh plasticine, and tool shape cookie.
The backdrop for games and photo booth was a very simple panel made off painted black plywood and decorated with construction tapes.
Mba Ira from Kertas Krep helped me providing MC for this party. He was funny and the kids loved him.
I almost forget to mention about the kids costume. For Ezra, I bought the vest from ELC, while for the other kids, I actually made them out of bright orange and grey nylon fabric I bought from Tanah Abang. I copy the pattern from the ELC vest (modified it a bit). I might do some tutorial for this vest (I can't promise though). For the construction helmet, I bought them from eBay. The kids were so excited with their costume (I even saw one of the kids - our neighbor - wearing it the next day playing in his frontyard).
If you see some interesting props and custom signs in this party, most of them were made by me and my hubby out of leftover materials from our workshop. It was a great feeling to create a great party with eco-friendly mind...
Happy birthday my little Ezra...
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Train Playboard for Ezra
This train playboard was Christmas present for Ezra that I made for Christmas 2010. I know... I know... It's so long ago. But it's worth telling.
Did I make it myself? I designed it, yes. But my carpenters & sticker guy at my workshop did most of the works. First I made the pattern for the board.
I printed it in 1:1 scale so the carpenter could cut using the template. We used plywood & melamine board.
Then I made the image to be printed & applied on the board. I used CorelDRAW software (I'm not good in Photoshop). The first image - which was the scenery - was to be applied on general board, while the second image - which was the train track - was to be applied on the track that's 3mm lower than the general board. (Did you get what I'm saying? I'm really not good in explaining things)
And this was how it came out:
To make it more fun, my husband added some details.
We bought the red bridge construction at Daisho for IDR 22.000 (Yes the price at Daisho was 22.000 at that time, now is 27.500).
The traffic light was actually a topper for candy packaging. It's a good way to recycle it right? If you pressed the button behind it, it would light the red light on the top. If you pressed again, it would light the green light, and so on.
The black & white crane was my nephew's broken toy. My husband rescued it and repainted it.
Although Ezra has his Thomas & Friends No. 1 Mega Playset, this playboard was great for travelling. We always bring it for trip to grandma's house and for him to play at hotels so he doesn't get bored.
Did I make it myself? I designed it, yes. But my carpenters & sticker guy at my workshop did most of the works. First I made the pattern for the board.
I printed it in 1:1 scale so the carpenter could cut using the template. We used plywood & melamine board.
Then I made the image to be printed & applied on the board. I used CorelDRAW software (I'm not good in Photoshop). The first image - which was the scenery - was to be applied on general board, while the second image - which was the train track - was to be applied on the track that's 3mm lower than the general board. (Did you get what I'm saying? I'm really not good in explaining things)
And this was how it came out:
To make it more fun, my husband added some details.
We bought the red bridge construction at Daisho for IDR 22.000 (Yes the price at Daisho was 22.000 at that time, now is 27.500).
The traffic light was actually a topper for candy packaging. It's a good way to recycle it right? If you pressed the button behind it, it would light the red light on the top. If you pressed again, it would light the green light, and so on.
The black & white crane was my nephew's broken toy. My husband rescued it and repainted it.
Although Ezra has his Thomas & Friends No. 1 Mega Playset, this playboard was great for travelling. We always bring it for trip to grandma's house and for him to play at hotels so he doesn't get bored.
We were on Parents Indonesia
Last March, Mommies Daily asked me to write tips about birthday party on budget. It was to be submitted on Parents Indonesia. I didn't expect it to be published, but it turned out I won first place for best tips. So happy...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Batik for Humanity
I've been a fan of batik for a long time. Even when I studied overseas more than 10 years ago, wearing batik was always made me proud. People over there would say, "Wow... nice fabric. Where are you from?" Then I would told them about how great Indonesia was. It was a pleasure to do, because back then, every news about Indonesia overseas was mostly bad news.
I introduced batik to my kids, since they were babies, especially my daughter Kanaya. I try my best to make them understand their Javanese roots. And batik clothing is the easiest and most fun tool. I was glad that their school decided batik to be a compulsory clothes for Friday.
From all Kanaya's batik clothes, her favorite is this dress from my mom, because it's in her favorite color: purple. I don't have any picture of her in fancy pose with this dress, but I got better ones. Here are pictures of her in the dress when she was helping my mom doing social work for a Posyandu (health care for women & children) for the poor in Semarang. She did easy task: taking notes of the children's weight and height, and passing the healthy food to the children. But oh... she was so happy doing that. And the batik she's wearing seemed appropriate.
It was a very memorable day for Kanaya...
If you love batik as much as we do, you can join Satu Batik Jutaan Jari event by Bodrexin. Bodrexin has this amazing idea of making batik print using our children' finger prints. So go upload your kid's finger prints at Kebaikan Bodrexin or Twitter @tentang kebaikan. I wonder how the batik pattern will turn out. It would be very unique.
Being member of Mommies Daily had given me a lot of useful info about events like this. Besides all resources about children and parenting world, you can see a lot of inspiring children batik outfit there. Check it out...
I introduced batik to my kids, since they were babies, especially my daughter Kanaya. I try my best to make them understand their Javanese roots. And batik clothing is the easiest and most fun tool. I was glad that their school decided batik to be a compulsory clothes for Friday.
From all Kanaya's batik clothes, her favorite is this dress from my mom, because it's in her favorite color: purple. I don't have any picture of her in fancy pose with this dress, but I got better ones. Here are pictures of her in the dress when she was helping my mom doing social work for a Posyandu (health care for women & children) for the poor in Semarang. She did easy task: taking notes of the children's weight and height, and passing the healthy food to the children. But oh... she was so happy doing that. And the batik she's wearing seemed appropriate.
It was a very memorable day for Kanaya...
If you love batik as much as we do, you can join Satu Batik Jutaan Jari event by Bodrexin. Bodrexin has this amazing idea of making batik print using our children' finger prints. So go upload your kid's finger prints at Kebaikan Bodrexin or Twitter @tentang kebaikan. I wonder how the batik pattern will turn out. It would be very unique.
Being member of Mommies Daily had given me a lot of useful info about events like this. Besides all resources about children and parenting world, you can see a lot of inspiring children batik outfit there. Check it out...
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