Kanaya's Birthday @ Catch My Party

Today, Kanaya's princess birthday party is Catch My Party's "Party of the Day":

 
View kanaya's birthday party in detail here.


Have a nice day... :)

Kanaya's princess birthday party

The party was last Saturday... Did some of the stuffs in very last minute, but I'm quite happy with the way it turned out.

This is the little "dessert bar"...

Cupcakes from Cupkeiks. The cupcake toppers were designed & printed by myself... :)

Cookies by Cinnamon Cake. I love the shapes (dresses, shoes, crowns & magic wands) & the emboss texture that Mba Nani Selian did for the icing. You can see more detailed picture here. Great job Mba Nani... :)

Love the Chinese take away boxes from Kinderplay. I printed the "please fill me" label & put the ribbon myself. The girls loved filling these with anything on the table.

The girls decorated crown headbands while waiting for other girls to come. I made them using glittered crown shaped thick paper that attached to colorful headband using felt. I bought some mobile phone stickers so the girls can stick the embellishment without glue mess.

 

I put some make up (just a little eye shadow, blush & lip gloss) on each girl at the "beauty bar". Each also got a princess tattoo. The girls loved to be pampered that way... The beauty bar located in Kanaya's room on her dressing/ study table.

The blue traincase on the right had the goodie bags for the girls to choose & fill with any dress up items on the table. There are magic wand pencils, sily bandz & tattoos & hair bows.

 

I put some prizes for the games on the tray too. There are couple of little mirrors, polkadot hairbows & beaded bracelet made by Kanaya.

Look at those sticker tattoos... aren't they cute? The girls couldn't wait to have them on their arms.

The birthday girl in a copy of Giselle's curtain dress from Enchanted the movie...

 

We didn't have any photo booth, but I decided to turn Kanaya's bedroom wall into one. Her bedroom has purple & torquise color wall with tree & birds decal that I made.

 

The look at the girls' faces were priceless. What I want the most is that Kanaya had a good time with her friends on her birthday. And she did...

Amy Butler fabric

Finally I own some Amy Butler fabric. This already came weeks ago from my purchase from Tin Thimble's Etsy shop.

The one the left is Daisy Bouquet in turquoise from Daisy Chain Collection. On the right is Bliss Bouquet from LOVE Collection. They look way better IRL... :)

WIP: Kanaya's birthday party - part 3

Bad news... Kanaya is really ill at this moment. It's been more than 1 week. The doctor suggested a bedrest. Hope she will be OK before her birthday. So I work from home & manage to finish some things for her birthday that's on this Saturday! You might want to see part 1 & part 2 too...
 
Done the printables...

 

 

Done the fabric bunting...

It's time to make the crowns for the girls to decorate... but I haven't got the right paper yet... panic...

WIP: Kanaya's birthday party - part 2

Finally, I've finished making the goodie bags for Kanaya's birthday that's coming up. As you see in part 1, the color would be blue, pink & purple. I tried to make everything handmade & try so hard not to buy any new supply & use things that are already in my craft drawer... )

What will be inside the bags? Since the theme is about dressing up princess party, so everything is about dressing up & being pretty...

I can't resist the crown applique & the crown ribbon listed on eBay, coz they're all so perfect for the favors. I made them + my plain grossgrain ribbon into these princess hairbows.

A princess is not a princess without a magic wand...

They're actually wooden pencils with felt pencil toppers. So after the party, the girls can use them as stationary. Do you know that they're my first felt project ever? I'm sure you can tell... :)


And look at what I found: princess set silly bandz. The shapes are perfect to go with images that I did for the cupcake toppers, & also with the cookies that I've ordered.

I wish the crown silly bandz came in lighter/ aqua blue color. It would be more perfect... I will pack 3 or maybe 4 for each girl.

There would be only 5 girls invited... yet I still have a lot to do: make the crowns for the decorating-the-crown activity, design more printables, etc. Hope I can finish them on time... Wish me luck!

Toscaberries = the yummiest berries

Believe it or not, I didn't have any pin cushion, although it actually became one of my necessity. I use needles a lot... So imagine how happy I was when winning this giveaway: yummy pin cushion from my friend Regina from Toscaberries.

Thanks to Regina... the pin cushion helps me a lot. Especially with the WIP of my daughter's birthday party that's coming soon. And look at the cute little hairpin, my daughter loves it so much...

Love you heaps, Regina... :) XXOO

WIP: Kanaya's birthday party - part 1

My daughter's 8th birthday is coming soon this end of February. We are doing princess theme this time. Not Disney Princess, just general princess, with something like dressing up activities going on.

Only 5 girls are invited: her 4 best friends from school & 1 cousin (she only has 1 girl cousin in this city). Yes, we decided not to have it big. We've done big before: 30 peoples at fast food restaurant on her 4th birthday. But this time we want it more exclusive (thanks to my friend Junita from Kinderplay for the exclusive idea).

I'm doing the goodie bags myself, will post them when they're finished. So far I've designed the cupcake toppers & the invitation.

As you see the theme color will be blue, purple & pink. Her dress will be a copy of Giselle curtain dress from Enchanted the movie. The dressmaker hasn't finished the dress yet. Oooh, I can't wait to see it & post the photo here...

Garden Series hair bow - retro dragonflies

Other bugs better watch out, coz retro dragonflies are coming to the garden... Don't blame them if they act like divas, coz they are indeed more stylish :) Total dimension: 5.5cmx7cm. Price IDR 26.900,- (updated January 2013)

retro dragonfly - choco muffin

retro dragonfly - strawberry muffin

retro dragonfly - blueberry lollipop

retro dragonfly - strawberry lollipop

retro dragonfly - mint sherbet

retro dragonfly - bubblegum sherbet

retro dragonfly - rainbow cupcake

retro dragonfly - blueberry cupcake

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year...

I know it's too late... But I just got back from my holiday & feel so lazy to update my blog.

These are pictures of Christmas gifts from me for my parents and my brothers' family (I don't have any sister), under the Christmas tree at my parents house.

They're the ones with the brown wrap okay... I hate to see expensive wrapping paper thrown away after people open their Christmas gifts. At the end of the day... what's inside is what matters. I did put some effort on the tags though... The tags were printed on paper, then stuck on Bakerzin coasters (LOL...) using double tape. Some of the coasters have little drink stain here & there, but covered really well with the printing. I'm glad I didn't leave the coasters on the table after eating some macaroons at Bakerzin... :)

Anyway... Wish you have (had) a very merry Christmas and a very happy new year... :)

My first award !!!

Oooh... I'm so thrilled when my fellow crafter mba Fitri from Griya Hobi Fitriaa surprised me with this wonderful award:

Thank you so so much mba Fitri... kiss kiss hug hug... :)

accepting this award, i am asked to do the following:
1. thank and link to the person who awarded me this award.
2. share 8 things about myself.
3. pay it forward to 8 bloggers that i have recently discovered.
4. contact those blogger and tell them about their awards.

Now... lets see 8 things about myself... Hmmmm...
1. My family is my number one priority...
2. I love to eat... almost anything... from sweet to savoury, from East to West, from raw to well done... (no wonder it's so hard for me to loose weight :(...
3. But... I can't really cook... :P
4. I love shabby, rustic and sometimes raw-industrial-style thing...
5. But... doesn't mean that I like things dirty... :) I'm almost hygiene freak...
6. I love love love crime TV series (with lots of blood in it): Dexter, CSI, Bones, etc.
7. I sleep really late...
8. I'm not cool at all, I'm emotional...

And... I'm so happy to share this award to my beloved bloggers:
1. Toscaberries
2. Akush Abam
3. Tamimi
4. Myria Rafiz
5. Shizuoka
6. Polaku
7. Ndandut
8. Kandhitarechta

Nothing beats the great feeling of sharing... :D

Note: also big thanks for Tarlen from Design by Vitarlenology & Puri from Ideku Handmade for passing the same award to me... Love you Tarlen & Puri.. :)