Kimono Shoes for A Baby Shower

I have a nice friend who's just having a baby and I plan to give her a present for the baby. The present will consist of a pair of shoes, two baby kimonos, a baby hat, and (maybe) a bib. What a great plan, huh :P I'm not pretty sure if I can make them all... I do hope I can finish them all this weekend.

ps : The best part is I've finished the kimono shoes, hooray!!!

Update :
You can find Kimono Shoes Tutorial by Homespun Threads here

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Now Reading : Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts

Finally got this book : Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts. It's hard to find it in Jakarta :)
Another book, Crafting A Business by Kathie Fitzerald is also a good book. You can find many great artisans who turn their love into business

Sara Louise Bag : My First Attempt

I have an Indonesian copy of Bag Boutique: Making Fabulous Purses And Totes by Amy Barickman/Indygo Junction Inc. for almost 2 months, but I haven't read it yet. Till last night I opened that book, and stuck at its last tutorial, that is Sara Louise Bag Tutorial. Instantly fall in love, I could't wait to make it and dug my fabric box to search the must-match fabric to cut :D

So, I got a remnant of peachy tweed (I made a lot of it into Channel look-alike cropped jacket), a blue flowery japanese cotton & a light brown polkadot japanese cotton,Then I cut them according to pattern, without asking any opinion of my husband. He usually puts negative comments on my fabric choices :( so I didn't ask him last night (of course I knew that he wouldn't disagree...)

So, here she is.. A Tweedy Sara Louise Bag

For lining, I used the light brown polkadot cotton. I didn't put any zipper or anothe closure, except front button. Cause the tutorial said so :D

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Monday Favourite 26/7

Hi, how are you today ?

My mon visited me last week, and my house was happily clean for a week long. I love you mom XO XO

Now, it's my time to post my Monday Favourite, and fortunately most of the links are about baby stuff, yumm yumm.. Here they are :

Baby Felt Shoes from marthastewart.com (with pattern !!)

Reversible Baby Bib (with pattern) from prudentbaby.com :
Snappy Toddler Dress from prudentbaby.com (again)

How to Make A Capelet from prudentbaby.com

Reversible Wallet from design by vitarlenology

Handmade covered buttons from Michele Made Me

That's all. I hope you try them ...

Girly Dress for Zakiyya

Update : Zakiyya in her purple girly dress

Few months ago I bought a beautiful pink-green-blue-and purple flowery cotton and took it home. I still didn't know what I want to do with it. I bought it because it was very pretty. The reason was so cliche & ordinary. Maybe the better reason was my habit of impulse buying :)

So, until few days ago I still didn't know what I want to make with the fabric. But after reading a Girly Dress tutorial from Jennifer Casa from JCasa *Handmade, I came up with this :

I changed the style a bit, changing the neckline, adding more volumes on the dress, adding two pockets, and after all that changes, Jennifer's is still 1000-times better than mine. But afterall, it is easy and non-time consuming. As a beginner crafter, I only needed 2 hours to make it complete, from making pattern untill attaching the buttons. It is really easy, you should try this :)

Next pic : Zakiyya in Girly Dress (maybe I'll upload the pic tommorow, right now I'm so sleepy)

Tata for now

Citra

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Fabrics from Tanah Abang & Dreamesh

I went to Tanah Abang last Thursday for another fabric shopping. It seems that my posts about shopping are much more than my sewing projects/tutorial posts now. I don't know why it happens, but I guess it is because my increasing laziness LOL

Oh now about the shopping.. I bought some japanese cottons & got a very nice border fabric. The border fabric is number one from the right side (white cotton with black & pink flower print) and it was oh-so-cute so I grabbed it without thinking twice

I also bought some pom-pom trimmings, swarovski trimmings, and purple button. The swarovski trimmings are great for revamping paris-cotton hijab. Swarovski embellished paris-cotton hijab style is very popular in Jakarta (and Indonesia). Attaching them into hijab by myself is a great bargain. Attaching them myself is (trully) cheaper than buying the hijab in stores. You must try it by yourself :)

I also received a great package from Amesh @ Dreamesh. They are batik, so pretty and I can't resist to look at them everytime and think any idea to turn them into great things. I ordered them to make Zakiyya's dress, and probably I'll use the lowest green batik to make the dress. But the others ? they're all so cute XOXO

My First Blog Award

Thank you for Erin @ Dropped Stitches for passing this Versatile Blog Award to me. It's my first blog award and i'm really happy :)After receiving this award I have to tell you 7 things about myself:

1. I'm now my mom's first daughter. Actually, long ago, I should be the second if my late sister didn't pass away. She died before she was born, at the 7th month of my mom's pregnany.

2. I don't like any smoke. Smoke from cigarettes, etc.

3. I hope I can have more than three children. My two children were born via sectio caesar (SC) and my doctor told me that if I'm pregnant,my next baby is my last chance to have a baby :(

4. I'm really eager to learn to drive a car. Me & my husband haven't had any car yet

5. I have seafood allergy at the age of 29, just few days ago :D

6. Before having a sewing machine, I always hand stitch my sewing projects :(

7. I love my own mom & my mother-in-law as well. My mother in law is someone that is really generous and helpful. She always help me take care of my kids when I'm off to work

I'm passing this award to 5 georgeous bloggers. Here they are :

Tarlen @ Design By Vitarlenology
Sew Chic & Unique
Anya @ The Veiled Bump
Shinta @ Chocochic
Thya @ Serba Biasa

Thank you my fellow bloggers, I love you all

My New Sewing Machine + Welcome Wednesday July 21

Finally, I have a new sewing machine :D
I had posted something about my dream to buy a new sewing machine here and I'm glad it wasn't a dream anymore

It is a Singer 8280, and has only 8 kinds of stitch. But I'm really happy with it XO XO

Enough about it, now, let's join Welcome Wednesday :

And The Winner Is .....

Finally, a week is over and now is my time to announce the winner of my first giveaway. According to random generator by RANDOM.ORG, due to 20 entries that had been counted, the winner is number :

Number : 3 is Henny !!!

Congratulations, Henny. I'll contact you right away via your email

And I want to say a great thanks for my sponsor of this month Mbak Yocii from Little Loulah. I hope this will be a good start for all of us :)

See you in my next giveaway, tata for now

Citra

Monday Favourite : All Last Week Featured Tutorials

I've been updating my Facebook Page for entire last week, and I made a new commitment to post all featured projects/tutorials in Monday. I hope all my readers enjoy the tutorials =)

psst.. I show you my new profile pic :

And here are the last week featured tutorials :

Glass Pendant Necklaces Tutorial from Simply Modern Mom :


More Soda Can Jewelery Tutorial from Twelve Crafts Till Christmas




A Lavender T-Shirt Make-over Tutorial from Sachiko @ Tea Rose Home :

Play Tent Tutorial from 2LittleHooligans

Interchangeable Fabric Headband Tutorial from Jax @ Aly&Ash

Hand Sewn Fabric Flowers from Cute As A Fox :

Mini Doll Clothes from Baby Clothes from Sachiko @ Tea Rose Home :

How to do Batik with Kids from That Artist Woman :

Appliqued Tie Onesie Tutorial from Crap I've Made :

I love you but I hate you "White Asparagus and Crabmeat Soup"

White Asparagus & Crabmeat Soup

Well, I won't give you any recipe about this georgeous & delicious soup. I just remind myself that eating this soup gave me a lot, lot, and lot.... of suffering from urticaria. It's been 3 days I get an urticaria at entire of my body. The doctors had given me 2 injections of Dexamethasone 0,5 mg and give me any Dexamethasoone pills to help me reduce the illness, but the urticaria seems won't stop. And it's so frustrating :(

I love this, but I hate this !!!

Note:
You can find a great article about Urticaria here