For the love of haberdashery

Haberdashery [hab-er-dash-uh-ree]

–noun, plural -er·ies.
1. a haberdasher's shop.
2. the goods sold there.

While haberdasher [hab-er-dash-er] means
–noun
1. a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
2. Chiefly British . a dealer in small wares and notions.

In this case, haberdashery means a shop that sells sewing notions, such as buttons, trims, ribbons, yarns, beads, pins, and all that little sewing treasures. Yummy !!



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Khama Khama Notebooks Winners

Sorry.. I didn't mean to postpone the Khama Khama giveaway winner for so long. I just didn't have time to post the winners this morning. So who are the winners ?
Winners ? Yes, "winners", not "winner" ! Kiara sent me two pink kids toile notebooks, one in large size, and the other in smaller size. What a lucky folks you are !

Here are the winners ...


Congratulation, Ikmalia, you win the large size notebook !

And the small notebook goes to :


Awww, congrats Dweedy !

I will send you confirmation emails soon...

Khama Khama Giveaway (CLOSED)

I really love Etsy. There are a lot of precious gems there. But sometimes gems are hidden somewhere else, not in Etsy. Maybe in dawanda, multiply, or even facebook ! When you’re browsing around facebook and you come across such stores as Khama Khama and see such lovely little handmade notebooks, it’s so exciting!

I'm the fan of simple covered notebook, but if there any cuteness like these, how can I deny them XD They're just too perfect to slip into my pocket! Just browsing through Kiara Flisha's albums are really made my day



And I also can't resist those buttons. These fabric-covered buttons are handmade with high-quality US and Japanese import fabrics, metal coverable buttons, and flat back bottom (meant to be adhered with glue). These little beauties are perfect for including in your scrapbooks, cards, accessories creation, stationaries or other craft projects.



And now is a turn for a giveaway !



A pink Kids Toile series handmade notebook by Kiara Flisha

You can win it !

Made with 365pgs japan paper, covered with very good quality fabric, and it comes with a charm and also a double side covered button which you can create into a necklace, keychain, or other accessories.

How to win it?
Mandatory entry :
Just put a comment stating your story about your most memorable notebook, for example : Can you tell us how it looked like ? what you used to write on it ? where is it now?
Don't forget to include your email address

Additional entries (optional) :
- Add Kiara Flisha as a friend on facebook
- Follow Kiara Flisha on twitter
- Blog or tweet about this giveaway
{please state what you do in your comment}

This giveaway is open internationally, until July 21, 2011 12 p.m. (Jakarta time). I will announce the winners at July 22, 2011 -- THIS GIVEAWAY IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED


Goodluck everyone !

p.s : This is just a beginning guys, but if you want to win a mystery box full of yummy goodies next week, subscribe to my newsletter using the form in this blog's sidebar or click this link. The giveaway will be announced only via newsletter, so don't miss it !

You've got mail ! (and a survey)

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Dear friends,

Now this blog have its own "newsletter" ! Please fill up the sign-up form at my sidebar if you want to receive juicy contents every week, free patterns & monthly surprise giveaway and offers created only for my newsletter subscribers

And now time for another sewing thing, I want to do a one question survey. I'm planning to do a sew-along for Balloon Dress next week. I want to know your opinion on topic "how a good sew-along should be?"

Please kindly share your opinion in the comment section

See you tomorrow ! (if you don't want to miss my July giveaway ^_^)

Love at The First Sight

I'm in love at the first sight with this bag :


The sweet, matching pattern & colors choice is mesmerizing me. Its ruffly accents is also oh-so beaituful !
It is included in this book DIY 144 : Fashion Bag" that was written by Ai You a.k.a Fragrant Lady


This pretty baby doesn't come with its pattern, but I guess I can make it by myself using pattern diagrams in its tutorial. At first I thought it was a small tote bag. Actually it is pretty big. Its measurement is 50 cm x 42 cm (height x width).


Another favorite from the book, the reversible bucket bag. So yummy !



For local crafter, if you want to buy the book, you can check its availability at your nearest Gramedia bookstore

Green, Blue and Purple

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Currently in love with this set of colors : greeb, blue, and purple. I bought some solid linen fabrics in the same pallete, and one thing that surprised me a lot was when cococita sent me a set of gifts in the same color pallete. What a coincidence !

Blogging : Sharing or Showing-off ?

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Hello people,

I've been in my new cubicle since monday, and still adapting
Don't know when everything will be back to normal mode (and mood) to work as usual. No blog post, no sewing project has been done in this last ten days

Honestly, I feel really low

There is someone who rants at me

I try not to be not too melancholy nor spread rants too much

This one was started-off from a link (to this blog) I posted on my personal facebook wall. As far as my concern, I've posted something similar like this only twice. First, when I posted about my first giveaway (that was a year ago), and the last one was when I posted my blogiversarry giveaway (I usually upload my children's photos on my facebook wall once or twice a month)

And that "kind" of comments appeared. I didn't realize about them for a week or so, because they were posted as his/her personal statuses. After one month, a kind of comment appear in my personal facebook inbox
The comment submissively stated that I show-off my talents and that was not good, bla bla bla
I am here to tell you that is just not true.

I started blogging as my way to connect to other creative people, and not to show-off. I wonder why there are few people who are still misunderstood.
I do "sewing" as my personal hobby and "blogging" to make connection. I never say "Hey, see me, I'm that great in sewing" No !
I choose blog as a place to seek supports, as much as criticsm

I know I write my blog post in a very lousy English, un-structured grammar and limted vocabullary. You may see huge numbers of typos and wrong grammars all over my blog post. But I don't care. I choose english as my blog language and strive as hard as I can to write a blog post

And some people thought that I show-off my talent? I don't even have a talent on that ! I'm still trying to be better
And hello, as I know who you are, that is surely not a good attitude to put a negative label into someone else's efforts
How a negative thinking person are you ?

I want to know what is a "show-off" post looks like. If there anybody know, please let me know

After all these, it is pretty clear that I should do a better job choosing word and link to post on my personal facebook page. Never ever post a link about my blog on that !

I should also probably stop reading someone else's facebook status