Inspiration Award

My second award... Thanks to myurbey & dePerta... :)

This is what I have to do:
 

1.Thank and link back to the person that awarded this to you.

2.Give the award to 10 blogs which are all inspiring in their own ways. ie. fashion, religious, random, islam/religion.

1. Done above

2. I'm giving this award for inspiring blogs below:

    - Tarlen from Design by Vitarlenology

    - Puri from Ideku Handmade

    - Ojan from Blogojan 

    - Mba Mei from Oma Anna 

    - Mba Ina from Feathering a Nest

    - Mba Arum from Fabris Fame

    - Amelia from Amelia Saga

    - Mba Fitri from Griya Hobi FitriaA  

    - Andriani from Hayano Handmade

    - Imel from Sewstories

Actually I have more than 10 on the list... :) 

"Let the path be open to talent." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Have a nice day... :)

April celebration

I'm quite disappointed to find out that Kanaya's school didn't have Kartini day celebration. And she was disappointed coz didn't get to dress up as little Kartini.

But I found these photos of her wearing traditional clothes on Kartini day...

This is when she was 3yo, for her Kindy school Kartini fashion competition & she actually won the second place & got her very first trophy.

And this one was 5yo, for her school's Kartini day party.

I guess the school didn't have it this year coz it's overlapped with Easter holiday. I told Kanaya to do some digital art with Easter theme to post at this blog. She's been learning Photoshop & Corel Draw since she was 3yo. This is what she came up with for Easter...

Although is a bit too late now, still I have to say:

Happy Kartini day 

& 

Happy Easter (for those who celebrate) !!!

Love lace... & buttons...

I made these long long time ago...


Lace & button necklace

Lace & button cuff

They inspired me to make some shabby chic romantic bows for this spring (kinda late, I know...). Hopefully I can make time to create it...

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...